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Edward Condon's Cooperative Vision : Science, Industry, and Innovation in Modern America.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (312 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822986263
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Edward Condon's Cooperative VisionDDC classification:
  • 353.00722
LOC classification:
  • KF27 .L377 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Rise of a Theoretical Physicist -- Chapter 2. Science in the Steel City -- Chapter 3. Atom Smashing at East Pittsburgh -- Chapter 4. New Products for New Markets -- Chapter 5. Westinghouse at War -- Chapter 6. Cold War in Washington -- Chapter 7. Recessional -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Combining biographical and institutional history, Thomas C. Lassman examines the professional career of theoretical physicist Edward Condon at Princeton University, Pittsburgh's Westinghouse Electric Company and Manufacturing Company, and the National Bureau of Standards to illuminate contested visions of the usefulness of science that played out during The Great Depression, the Second World War, and the early Cold War.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Rise of a Theoretical Physicist -- Chapter 2. Science in the Steel City -- Chapter 3. Atom Smashing at East Pittsburgh -- Chapter 4. New Products for New Markets -- Chapter 5. Westinghouse at War -- Chapter 6. Cold War in Washington -- Chapter 7. Recessional -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Combining biographical and institutional history, Thomas C. Lassman examines the professional career of theoretical physicist Edward Condon at Princeton University, Pittsburgh's Westinghouse Electric Company and Manufacturing Company, and the National Bureau of Standards to illuminate contested visions of the usefulness of science that played out during The Great Depression, the Second World War, and the early Cold War.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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