Intellectual Mastery of Nature. Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein, Volume 2 Vol. 2The Now Mighty Theoretical Physics, 1870 To 1925 |
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| Author:
| Jungnickel, Christa
McCormmach, Russell |
| ISBN: | 978-0-226-41585-7 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1990 |
| Publisher: | University of Chicago Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $50.00USD $50.00 |
Book Description:
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Winner of the 1987 Pfizer Award of the History of Science Society "A majestic study of a most important spoch of intellectual history."--Brian Pippard,
Times Literary Supplement "The authors' use of archival sources hitherto almost untouched gives their story a startling vividness. These volumes are among the finest works produced by historians of physics."--Jed Z. Buchwald,
Isis "The authors...
More Description Winner of the 1987 Pfizer Award of the History of Science Society
"A majestic study of a most important spoch of intellectual
history."--Brian Pippard, Times Literary Supplement
"The authors' use of archival sources hitherto almost
untouched gives their story a startling vividness. These volumes
are among the finest works produced by historians of physics."--Jed
Z. Buchwald, Isis
"The authors painstakingly reconstruct the minutiae of
laboratory budgets, instrument collections, and student numbers;
they disentangle the intrigues of faculty appointments and the
professional values those appointments reflected; they explore
collegial relationships among physicists; and they document the
unending campaign of scientists to wring further support for
physics from often reluctant ministries."--R. Steven Turner, Science
"Superbly written and exhaustively researched."--Peter Harman,
Nature