Science at the American Frontier: A Biography of Dewitt Bristol Brace - Couverture rigide

Cahan, David; Rudd, M. Eugene

 
9780803215085: Science at the American Frontier: A Biography of Dewitt Bristol Brace
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0803215088 ISBN 13 : 9780803215085
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2000

Synopsis

Science at the American Frontier is both a biography of American physicist DeWitt Bristol Brace (1859-1905) and a study of the processes by which scientific knowledge and associated instrumentation were transferred from Europe to the United States and from the east coast to the American frontier. The authors trace Brace's first-class scientific education in Boston, Baltimore, and Berlin, and they follow his career as he founded and built a department of physics at the University of Nebraska and pursued a research program at that institution. In doing so, they show how Brace's career brought him into the vanguard of the American scientific community, and they illuminate the developmental process of departments of science at the newly founded land-grant colleges.

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À propos de l?auteur

David Cahan is a professor of history at the University of Nebraska and the author of An Institute for an Empire. M. Eugene Rudd is a professor emeritus of physics and astronomy at the University of Nebraska. He is coauthor of Atomic Collisions: Heavy Particle Projectiles.

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Éditeur
University of Nebraska Press
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0803215088
ISBN 13 
9780803215085
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
244
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