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AGE OF INNOCENCE C
By Stuewer
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Description
Their experimental and theoretical work arose from a quest to understand nuclear phenomena; it was not motivated by a desire to find a practical application for nuclear energy. In this sense, these physicists lived in an 'Age of Innocence'. They did not, however, live in isolation. Their research reflected their idiosyncratic personalities; it was shaped by the physical and intellectual environments of the countries and institutions in which they worked. It was also buffeted by the political upheavals after the Great War: the punitive postwar treaties, the runaway inflation in Germany and Austria, the Great Depression, and the intellectual migration from Germany and later from Austria and Italy.
Their pioneering experimental and theoretical achievements in the interwar period therefore are set within their personal, institutional, and political contexts. Both domains and their mutual influences are conveyed by quotations from autobiographies, biographies, recollections, interviews, correspondence, and other writings of physicists and historians.
Product details
Number of Pages:
502
Release Date:
2018-09-26
Publication Date:
2018-08-07
Publisher:
ACADEMIC
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0198827873
ISBN13:
9780198827870
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Weight:
1037 g
Height:
175 cm
Width:
250 cm
Thickness:
31 cm
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