Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - David Cahan on Helmholtz - Shaul Katzir - Suman Seth - Eric Vettel - Roland Wittje - Olivier Darrigol - Seiya Abiko
Reference : 100940
(2004)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 2004 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 174 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 2004 Contents, Chapitres : David Cahan : Helmholtz and the shaping of the American physics elite in the Gilded Age - Shaul Katzir : The emergence of the principle of symmetry in physics - Suman Seth : Quantum theory and the electromagnetic world-view - Eric Vettel : The protean nature of Stanford University's biological sciences, 1946-1972 - Roland Wittje : A proton accelerator in Trondheim in the 1930s - Olivier Darrigol : On a recent article by Seiya Abiko - Seiya Abiko : Reply to Olivier Darrigol a dark spot on the top right corner of the wrappers, quite nothing, else near fine copy, no markings - pages 1 to 174
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - David Cassidy - Michael Chayut on Ladislas Karkas - Olivier Darrigol on Larmor and Lorentz - Karl Hufbauer on Bernard Lyot - Mark Walker - Alice Walters
Reference : 100921
(1994)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1994 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 217 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 1994 Contents, Chapitres : David Cassidy : Controlling German science, I : U.S. and Allied forces in Germany, 1945-1947 - Michael Chayut : From Berlin to Jerusalem : Ladislaus Farkas and the founding of physical chemistry in Israel - Olivier Darrigol : The electron theories of Larmor and Lorentz : A comparative study - Karl Hufbauer : Artificial eclipses : Bernard Lyot and the coronagraph, 1929-1939 - Mark Walker : Science, National Socialism, and the longue durée - Alice Walters : Public science very light spots on the wrappers, else near fine copy, no markings - pages 198 to 414
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - David Devorkin - Lillian Hoddeson - Stuart W. Leslie - Allan A. Needell - Robert W. Seidel - Paul Forman
Reference : 100906
(1987)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1987 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 229 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 1987 Contents, Chapitres : David Devorkin : Organizing for space research : The V-2 rocket panel - Lillian Hoddeson : The first large-scale application of superconductivity : The Fermilab energy doubler, 1972 - 1983 - Stuart W. Leslie : Playing the education game to win : The military and Interdisciplinary research at Stanford - Allan A. Needell : Preparing for the space age : University-based research, 1946-1957 - Robert W. Seidel : From glow to flow : A history of military laser research and development - Paul Forman : Behind quantum electronics : National security as basis for physical research in the United States, 1940 - 1960 few small foxings on the wrappers, else near fine copy, no markings - pages 1 to 229
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Deborah R. Coen - Olivier Darrigol - Michael D. Gordin - Britta Scheideler - Gilbert Shama and Jonathan Reinarz - Catherine Westfall - Kurt W. Beyer
Reference : 100346
(2002)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 2002 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue In-8 1 vol. - 237 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 2002 Contents, Chapitres : Deborah R. Coen : Scientific's errors, nature's fluctuations, and the law of radioactive decay, 1899-1926 - Olivier Darrigol : Turbulence in 19th-century hydrodynamics - Michael D. Gordin : The organic roots of Mendeleev's periodic law - Edward Jurkowitz : Helmholtz and the liberal unification of science - Britta Scheideler : The scientist as moral authority : Albert Einstein between elitism and democracy, 1914-1933 - Gilbert Shama and Jonathan Reinarz : Allied intelligence reports on wartime German penicillin research and production - Catherine Westfall : A tale of two more laboratories : Readying for research at Fermilab and Jefferson Laboratory - Kurt W. Beyer : Selected bibliiography wrappers clean, with minor folding tracks on the corner and few foxings, inside is clean, no markings, the bottom right corners of the last 4 pages is strongly folded, it remains a very good reading copy - paginated 179 to 416
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Finn Aaserud - Carol Gruber - Gyeong Soon Im on Ramsauer - Nathan Reingold - Zuoyue Wang - Angela N. Creager - Henrika Kuklick
Reference : 100923
(1995)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1995 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 203 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 1995 "Contents, Chapitres : Finn Aaserud : Sputnik and the "" Princeton three: "" The national security laboratory that was not to be - Carol Gruber : The overhead system in government-sponsored academic science : Origins and early development of the Ramsauer effect - Gyeong Soon Im : Choosing the future : The U.S research community, 1944 - 1946 - Nathan Reingold - Zuoyue Wang : The politics of big science in the Cold War : PSAC and the funding of SLAC - Angela N. Creager : In the fly room - Henrika Kuklick : Mind over matter ?" near fine copy, no markings - pages 186 to 388
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Garland E. Allen - Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent - Hasok Chang - Olivier Darrigol on Saint-Venant - Elisabeth Paris
Reference : 100935
(2001)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 2001 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 204 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 2001 "Contents, Chapitres : Garland E. Allen : The biological basis of crime : An historical and methodological study - Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent : The construction of a discipline : Material science in the United States - Hasok Chang : Spirit, air and quicksilver : The search for the ""real"" scale of temperatue - Olivier Darrigol : God, waterwheels, and molecules : Saint Venant's anticipation of energy conservation - Elisabeth Paris : Lords of the ring : The fight to build the first U.S. electron-positron collider" few small foxings on the wrappers, else near fine copy, no markings - pages 184 to 387
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - J. L. Heilbron, ed.
Reference : 100919
(1993)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1993 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 337 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 1993 Contents, Chapitres : 1. The standard Model : 1.1. The scheme of imponderables (An epoch in physical science in physical science - A world of as-if) - 1.2. Between calculus and chemistry - 2. Some Means to the End : 2.1. New angles on angles (As easy as ? -Completing the circle) - 2.2. Measuring imponderables (The first weightless weighings - Caloric) 3. Laplace's School : 3.1. The spirit of Arcueil (The school tie - The dead hand) - 3.2. Mathematical figleaf (Clairaut and Newton - The Laplace transformation) - 3.3. Sound and fury (Lagrange and Newton - Laplace's approach - Enter ? - Again the figleaf) - 4. Varieties of Mercantilist Mathematics : 4.1. Cartographic control (A french business - Enter the Army - An export business - The cross-channel link - Imperial measures) - 4.2. The shape of science and the Earth (Newton's apple - Elusive ellipticity - Revolutionary geodesy - No ellipsoid of revolution) minor folding tracks on the bottom right corner of the wrappers, few foxings on the borders, else near fine copy, no markings - pages 1 to 337
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - James Rodger Fleming - Christophe Masutti on Frederic Clements - Matthias Heymann - Matthias Dörries - Erik M. Conway - Simone Turchetti
Reference : 100943
(2006)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 2006 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 183 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 2006 Contents, Chapitres : James Rodger Fleming : The pathological history of weather and climate modification : Three cycles of promise and hype - Christophe Masutti : Frederic Clements, climatology, and conservation in the 1930s - Matthias Heymann : Modeling reality. Practice, knowledge, and uncertainty in atmospheric transport simulation - Matthias Dörries : In the public eye : Volcanology and climate change studies in the 20th century - Erik M. Conway : Drowning in data : Satellite oceanography and information overload in the earth sciences - Simone Turchetti : The invisible businessman : Nuclear physics, patenting practices, and trading activities in the 1930s wrappers clean, with minor folding tracks on the corner and few foxings, inside is clean, no markings, the bottom right corners of the last 4 pages is lightly folded, it remains a very good reading copy - pages 1 to 183
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - José M. Sánchez-Ron - Alexis de Greiff - Kenji Ito on Nishina Yoshio - Abha Sur on Meghnad Saha - Dong-Won Kim - David Kaiser - Alexei Kojevnikov on David Bohm
Reference : 100936
(2002)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 2002 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 192 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 2002 "Contents, Chapitres : José M. Sánchez-Ron : International relations in Spanish physics from 1900 to the Cold War - Alexis de Greiff : The tale of two peripheries : The creation of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste - Kenji Ito : Values of ""pure science"" : Nishina Yoshio's wartime discourse between nationalism and physics, 1940-1945 - Abha Sur : Scientism and social justice : Meghnad Saha's critique of the state of science in India - Dong-Won Kim : The conflict between the image and role of physics in South Korea - David Kaiser : Cold War requisitions, scientific manpower, and the production of American physicists after World War II - Alexei Kojevnikov : David Bohm and collective movement" near fine copy, no markings - pages 1 to 192
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Kenneth L. Caneva - Alberto G. de Gregorio - R. Steven Turner
Reference : 100941
(2005)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 2005 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 206 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 2005 "Contents, Chapitres : Kenneth L. Caneva : ""Discovery"" as a site for the collective construction for scientific knowledge - Alberto G. de Gregorio : Neutron physics in the early 1930s - R. Steven Turner : After the famine : Plant pathology, Phytophthora infestans, and the late blight of potatoes, 1845-1960" near fine copy, no markings - pages 176 to 382
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Kostas Gavroglu on van der Waals - Dan Kevles - Eric L. Mills - Alex Soojung-Kim Pang on Edward Bowles - S.S. Schweber on John Clarke Slater - Lewis Pyenson
Reference : 100911
(1990)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1990 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 237 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 1990 "Contents, Chapitres : Kostas Gavroglu : The reaction of the British physicists and chemists to van der Waals' early work and to the law of corresponding states - Dan Kevles : Cold war and hot physics : Science, security, and the American state, 1945-1956 - Eric L. Mills : Useful in many capacities. An early career in American physical oceanography - Alex Soojung-Kim Pang : Edward Bowles and radio engineering at MIT, 1920-1940 - S.S. Schweber : The young John Clarke Slater and the development of quantum chemistry; Reviews and bibliographical essays - Lewis Pyenson : Over the bounding main" plastified wrappers, transparent, else near fine, no markings - pages 200 to 436
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Laurie M. Brown and Helmut Rechenburg on Fermi - Loren Butler on Robert S. Mulliken - Kostas Gavroglu and Ana Simoes - Daniel Kevles on Ananda Chakrabarty - Frederik Nebeker - Thomas Soderqvist
Reference : 100922
(1994)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1994 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 183 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 1994 Contents, Chapitres : Laurie M. Brown and Helmut Rechenburg : Field theories of nuclear forces in the 1930s : The Fermi-Field theory - Loren Butler : Robert S. Mulliken and the politics of science and scientists, 1939-1946 - Kostas Gavroglu and Ana Simoes : The Americans, the Germans and the beginnings of quantum chemistry - Daniel Kevles : Ananda Chakrabarty wins a patent : Biotechnology, law, and society, 1972-1980 - Frederik Nebeker : Experimental style in high-energy physics : The discovery of the upsilon particle - Thomas Soderqvist : The architecture of a biographical pathway near fine copy, no markings - pages 1 to 183
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Laurie M. Brown and Tian Yu Cao - Olivier Darrigol - Gregory A. Good - Keld Nielsen on T.J. Seebeck
Reference : 100914
(1991)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1991 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 196 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 1991 Contents, Chapitres : Laurie M. Brown and Tian Yu Cao : Spontaneous breakdown of symmetry : Its rediscovery and integration into quantum field theory - Olivier Darrigol : Statistics and combinatorics in early quantum theroy, II : Early symptoma of indistinguishability and holism - Gregory A. Good : The Rockefeller Foundation, the Leipzig Geophysical Institute, and National Socialsm in the 1930s - Keld Nielsen : Another king of light : The work T.J. Seebeck and his collaboration with Goethe, Part 2) near fine copy, no markings - pages 212 to 407
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Laurie M. Brown and Tian Yu Cao - Olivier Darrigol - Gregory A. Good - Keld Nielsen on T.J. Seebeck
Reference : 100913
(1991)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1991 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 196 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 1991 Contents, Chapitres : Laurie M. Brown and Tian Yu Cao : Spontaneous breakdown of symmetry : Its rediscovery and integration into quantum field theory - Olivier Darrigol : Statistics and combinatorics in early quantum theroy, II : Early symptoma of indistinguishability and holism - Gregory A. Good : The Rockefeller Foundation, the Leipzig Geophysical Institute, and National Socialsm in the 1930s - Keld Nielsen : Another king of light : The work T.J. Seebeck and his collaboration with Goethe, Part 2) plastified wrappers, transparent, else near fine, no markings - pages 212 to 407
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - M. De Maria and A. Russo on Compton and Millikan - Peter Galison and Barton Bernstein - Robert Palter - Henry Lowood
Reference : 100909
(1989)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1989 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 202 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 1989 Contents, Chapitres : M. De Maria and A. Russo : Cosmic ray romancing : The discovery of the latitude effect and the Compton-Millikan controversy - Peter Galison and Barton Bernstein : In any light : Scientists and the decision to build the Superbomb, 1952- 1954 - Robert Palter : Some impressions of recent work on eighteenth-century science - Henry Lowood : Selected bibliography missing of papers on the spine of the volume, plastified wrappers, transparent, else near fine, no markings - pages 212 to 413
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Matthias Dörries on Heinrich Kayser - Christophe Lécuyer - Peter J. Ramberg on Arthur Michael - Jessica Wang - Pnina Abir-Am
Reference : 100924
(1995)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1995 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 196 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 1995 "Contents, Chapitres : Matthias Dörries : Heinrich Kayser as philologist of physics - Christophe Lécuyer : MIT, Progressive reform, and ""industrial service,"" 1890-1920 - Peter J. Ramberg : Arthur Michael's critique of stereochemistry, 1987-1899 - Jessica Wang : Liberals, the progressive left, and the political economy of postwar American science : The National Science Foundation debate revisited - Pnina Abir-Am : ""New"" trends in the history of molecular biology" few small foxings on the wrappers, else near fine copy, no markings - pages 1 to 196
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Michael Chayut on Paul Flory - Klaus Hentschel on Fraunhofer, Rowland and Jewell - Lillian Hoddeson - Domenico Bertoloni Meli - Nicolas Rasmussen on Freund
Reference : 100917
(1993)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1993 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 181 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 1993 Contents, Chapitres : Michael Chayut : New sites for scientific change : Paul Flory's initiation into polymer chemistry - Klaus Hentschel : The discovery of the redshift of solar Fraunhofer lines by Rowland and Jewell in Baltimore around 1890 - Lillian Hoddeson : The discovery of spontaneous fission in plutonium during World War II - Domenico Bertoloni Meli : The emergence of reference frames and the transformation of mechanics in the Enlightenment - Nicolas Rasmussen : Freund's adjuvant and the realization of questions in postware immunology few small foxings on the wrappers, else near fine copy, no markings - pages 194 to 374
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Michael S. Goodman on Klaus Fuchs - Shizue Hinokawa - Frederic Lawrence Holmes - Shaul Katzir - David Munns - Robert A. Myers and Richard W. Dixon - Hallam Stevens
Reference : 100938
(2003)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 2003 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 206 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 2003 "Contents, Chapitres : Michael S. Goodman : Grandfather of they hydrogen bomb ? : Anglo-American intelligence and Klaus Fuchs - Shizue Hinokawa : A comparative study of cyclotron development at Cambridge and Liverpool in the 1930s - Frederic Lawrence Holmes : Chemistry in the Académie Royale des Sciences - Shaul Katzir : From explanation to description : Molecular and phenomenological theories of piezoelectricity - David Munns : If we build it, who will come ? Radio astronomy and the limitations of ""national"" laboratories in Cold War America - Robert A. Myers and Richard W. Dixon : Who invented the laser : An analysis of the early patents - Hallam Stevens : Fundamental physics and its justifications, 1945-1993" pages 1 to 206
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Olga Amsterdamska on Oswald T. Avery - Maria Grazia Ianniello - Adrienne Kolb and Lillian Hoddeson - Chunglin Kwa - Terry Shinn
Reference : 100920
(1993)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1993 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 195 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 1993 "Contents, Chapitres : Olga Amsterdamska : From pneumonia to DNA : The research career of Oswald T. Avery - Maria Grazia Ianniello : Elastic Nachwirkung , Brownian motion and the tide against determinism : 1835-1920 - Adrienne Kolb and Lillian Hoddeson : The mirage of the ""world accelerator for world peace"" and the origins of the SSC, 1953-1983 - Chunglin Kwa : Modeling the grasslands - Terry Shinn : The Bellevue grand électroaimant, 1900-1940 : Birth of a research-technology community" few small foxings on the wrappers, else near fine copy, no markings - pages 1 to 195
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Olival Freire on David Bohm - Sean F. Johnston on Dennis Gabor - John Krieg - Benoit Lelong on Paul Lanhevin - Annette Lykknes, Lise Kvittingen, and Anne Kristine Borrensen on Ellen Gleditsch - Shaul Katir - Suman Seth
Reference : 100942
(2005)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 2005 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 205 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 2005 "Contents, Chapitres : Olival Freire : Science and exile : David Bohm, the cold war, and a new interpretation of quantum mechanics - Sean F. Johnston : From white elephant to Nobel Prize : Dennis Gabor's wavefront reconstruction - John Krieg : The politics of phosphoru-32 : A cold war fable based on fact - Benoit Lelong : Ions, electromaters, and physical constants : Paul Langevin's laboratory work on gas discharges, 1896-1903 - Annette Lykknes, Lise Kvittingen, and Anne Kristine Borrensen : Duty and responsability in a research and teaching career, 1916-1946 - Shaul Katir : On ""the electromagnetic worldview"" : A comment on an article by Suman Seth - Suman Seth : Response to Shaul Katzir : ""On the electromagnetic worldview""" wrappers clean, with minor folding tracks on the corner and few foxings, inside is clean, no markings, the bottom right corners of the first 4 pages is lightly folded, it remains a very good reading copy - pages 1 to 205
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Per F. Dahl - John L. Davis - Willem D. Hackmann - Bruce Hunt on Oliver J. Lodge - Robert W. Seidel - David Cassidy
Reference : 100902
(1986)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1986 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 195 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 1986 "Contents, Chapitres : Per F. Dahl : Superconductivity after World War I and circumstances surrounding the discovery of a state B = 0 - John L. Davis : The influence of astronomy on the character of physics in mid-nineteenth century France - Willem D. Hackmann : Sonar research and naval warfare 1914-1954 : A case study of a twentieth-century science - Bruce Hunt : Experimenting on the ether : Olivier J. Lodge and the great whirling machine - Robert W. Seidel : A home for big science : The Atomic Energy Commission's laboratory system; Reviews and bibliographic essays - David Cassidy : Understanding the history of special relativity" plastified wrappers, transparent, else near fine, no markings - pages 1 to 195
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Ute Deichmann - Igor S. Dmitriev on Dmitrii Mendeleev - Frederic Lawrence Holmes - Danian Hu - W. Patrick McCray on Lee DuBridge - Lucia Orlando
Reference : 100939
(2004)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 2004 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 199 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 2004 Contents, Chapitres : Ute Deichmann : Early responses to Avery et al.'s paper on DNA as hereditary material - Igor S. Dmitriev : Scientific discovery in statu nascendi : The case of Dmitrii Mendeleev's Periodic Law - Frederic Lawrence Holmes : Investigative and pedagogical styles in French chemistry at the end of seventeenth century - Danian Hu : Organized criticism of Einstein and relativity in China, 1968-1976 - W. Patrick McCray : Project Vista, Caltech, and the dilemmas of Lee DuBridge - Lucia Orlando : The SIRIO satellite, 1968-1977 : Between scientific engagement and managerial inexperience near fine copy, no markings - pages 208 to 406
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Victor Y A Frenkel on Yakov Ilich Frenkel - David Hounshell - Daniel J. Kevles - David Munns - Spencer R. Weart
Reference : 100927
(1997)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1997 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 175 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 1997 Contents, Chapitres : Victor Y A Frenkel : Yakov Ilich Frenkel : Sketches toward a civic portrait - David Hounshell : The Cold War, RAND, and the generation of knowledge, 1946-1962 - Daniel J. Kevles : Big Science and big politics in the United States : Reflections on the death of the SSC and the life of the Human Genome Project - David Munns : Linear accelerators, radio astronomy, and Australia's search for International prestige, 1944-1948 - Spencer R. Weart : Global warming, Cold War, and the evolution of research plans few small foxings on the wrappers, else near fine copy, no markings - pages 198 to 372
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences -Alexi Assmus - Charles Coulston Gillispie - Christophe Lecuyer on Karl Compton and James Killian - Glenn Bugos
Reference : 100918
(1992)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1992 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 191 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 1992 Contents, Chapitres : Alexi Assmus : The Americanization of molecular physics - Charles Coulston Gillispie : Science and secret weapons development in Revolutionary France, 1792-1804 : A documentary history - Christophe Lecuyer : The making of a science based technological university : Karl Compton, James Killian, and the reform of MIT, 1930-1957 - Glenn Bugos : The organization of the quest for certainty near fine copy, no markings - pages 1 to 191
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences -Bruno Carazza and Helge Kragh on Augusto Righi - Michael Eckert on Heisenberg - Stuart Leslie - Ilana Löwy on Volta - Giuliano Pancaldi - Lewis Pyenson
Reference : 100912
(1990)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1990 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 210 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 1990 Contents, Chapitres : Bruno Carazza and Helge Kragh : Augusto Righi's magnetic rays : A failed research program in early 20th-century physics - Michael Eckert : Primacy doomed to failure : Heisenberg's role as scientific adviser for nuclear policy in the FRG - Stuart Leslie : Profit and loss : the military and MIT in the postwar era - Ilana Löwy : Variances in meaning in discovery accounts : The case of contemporary biology - Giuliano Pancaldi : Electricity and life. Volta's path to the battery - Lewis Pyenson : Habits of mind : Geophysics at Shangai and Algiers, 1920-1940 near fine copy, no markings - pages 1 to 210