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Redirecting Science: Niels Bohr, Philanthropy, and the Rise of Nuclear Physics

Redirecting Science: Niels Bohr, Philanthropy, and the Rise of Nuclear Physics

Aaserud, Finn

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Series: Niels Bohr, Philanthropy, and the Rise of Nuclear Physics

Technology & EngineeringSports GeneralPhysics

ISBN10: 0521530679
ISBN13: 9780521530675
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Jan 30 2003
Pages: 372
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.02 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
This volume is an important study for understanding the complex interconnections between basic science and its sources of economic support in the period between the two world wars. The focus of the study is on the Institute for Theoretical Physics (later renamed the Niels Bohr Institute) at Copenhagen University, and the role of its director, the eminent Danish physicist, Niels Bohr, in the funding and administration of the Institute. Under Bohr's direction, the Copenhagen Institute was a central workplace in the development and the formulation of quantum mechanics in the 1920s and later became an important center for nuclear research in the 1930s. Dr. Aaserud brings together the scholarhip on the internal origins and development of nuclear physics in the 1930s with descriptions of the concurrent changes in private support for international basic science, particularly as represented by Rockefeller Foundation philanthropy. In the process, the book places the emergence of nuclear physics in a larger historical context. This book will appeal to historians of science, physicists, and advanced students in these areas.

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