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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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
Series: | New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 6 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- 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