A Short History of Physics in the American Century / / David C. Cassidy.
As the twentieth century drew to a close, computers, the Internet, and nanotechnology were central to modern American life. Yet the advances in physics underlying these applications are poorly understood and widely underappreciated by U.S. citizens today. In this concise overview, David C. Cassidy s...
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Cassidy, David C., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut A Short History of Physics in the American Century / David C. Cassidy. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2011] ©2013 1 online resource (224 p.) : 6 tables text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Entering the New Century -- 2. American Physics Comes of Age -- 3. Surviving the Depression -- 4. The Physicists' War -- 5. Taming the Endless Frontier -- 6. The New Physics -- 7. Sputnik: Action and Reaction -- 8. Revising the Partnership -- Appendix: Tables -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star As the twentieth century drew to a close, computers, the Internet, and nanotechnology were central to modern American life. Yet the advances in physics underlying these applications are poorly understood and widely underappreciated by U.S. citizens today. In this concise overview, David C. Cassidy sharpens our perspective on modern physics by viewing this foundational science through the lens of America's engagement with the political events of a tumultuous century. American physics first stirred in the 1890s-around the time x-rays and radioactivity were discovered in Germany-with the founding of graduate schools on the German model. Yet American research lagged behind the great European laboratories until highly effective domestic policies, together with the exodus of physicists from fascist countries, brought the nation into the first ranks of world research in the 1930s. The creation of the atomic bomb and radar during World War II ensured lavish government support for particle physics, along with computation, solid-state physics, and military communication. These advances facilitated space exploration and led to the global expansion of the Internet. Well into the 1960s, physicists bolstered the United States' international status, and the nation repaid the favor through massive outlays of federal, military, and philanthropic funding. But gradually America relinquished its postwar commitment to scientific leadership, and the nation found itself struggling to maintain a competitive edge in science education and research. Today, American physicists, relying primarily on industrial funding, must compete with smaller, scrappier nations intent on writing their own brief history of physics in the twenty-first century. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Physicists United States United States. Physicists United States. Physics History United States. Physics United States History. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2011 9783110261189 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PACKAGE ENGLISH LANGUAGES TITLES 2011 9783110261233 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PAKET SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE 2011 9783110261202 ZDB-23-DMN Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) 9783110756067 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 print 9780674049369 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674062740 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674062740 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674062740.jpg |
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