By Daniel J. Kevles
ISBN-10: 0394726693
ISBN-13: 9780394726694
This awesome account of the arrival of age of physics in the United States has been heralded because the most sensible creation to the background of technological know-how within the usa. Unsurpassed in its breadth and literary type, Kevles's account portrays the bright scientists who turned a robust strength in bringing the realm right into a progressive new era.
The ebook levels broadly because it hyperlinks those interesting advancements to the social, cultural, and political adjustments that happened from the post-Civil warfare years to the current. all through, Kevles retains his eye at the significant query of the way an avowedly elitist company grew and prospered in a democratic culture.
In this re-creation, the writer has introduced the tale brand new via delivering an in depth, authoritative, and colourful account of the Superconducting great Collider, from its origins within the overseas festival and highbrow wishes of high-energy particle physics, via its institution as a multibillion-dollar venture, to its termination, in 1993, due to offended competition in the American physics group and the Congress.
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In constructing his theories he preferred not to rely on particular mechanical models of natural phe nomena. 8 No less a mechanist than his contemporaries in the Anglo-American school, Gibbs did believe that reduction to mechanics was the goal of physics. But he 7 Maxwell to Simon Newcomb, May 31, 1879, SN, Box 31. 8 T h e Collected Works of / . Willard Gibbs, ed. Henry A. Bumstead and Ralph G. ; New Haven, 1948), I, 63; II, 210, 246. The Flaws of American Physics | 33 insisted upon avoiding the construction of unnecessary hypotheses, mechanical or otherwise.
By the mid-1870s, cultivated America’s patronage of science was giving the subject an enormous academic boost. But among the bettereducated and higher-status public of the day, the expected result of the academic shift overshadowed the benefits to the scientific disciplines themselves. ”2 7 Quoted in Hugh Hawkins, Pioneer: A History of the Johns Hopkins University, 1814-1889 (Ithaca, 1960), p. 71. 8 Quoted in Richard Hofstadter and W alter P. Metzger, T h e Development of Academic Freedom in the United States (New York, 1955), p.
194; John S. Brubacher and Willis Rudy, H igher Education in Transition: An American History, 1636-1956 (New York, 1958), pp. 159-60; Fabian Franklin, T he Life of Daniel Coit Gilman (New York, 1910), pp. 2-4, 14, 28-29; William W arren Ferrier, Origin and Development of the University of California (Berkeley: Sather Gate Book Shop, 1930), pp. 339-40; William W atts Folwell, University Addresses (Minneapolis; H. W . Wilson, 1909), pp. 16-21, 27-28, 39, 50, 52; Folwell, William Watts Folwell: T h e Autobiography and Letters of a Pioneer of Culture, ed.
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