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Proceedings of the International Conference on the Restructuring of Physical Sciences in Europe and the United States, 1945-1960: Università “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy, 19-23 September 1988 (1989)

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Publication Date: 1989
Edition Details: Editors: Michelangelo de Maria, Grilli, Mario, Sebastiani, Fabio.
Physical Details: xiii + 813 pp.; illus.; notes

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Description Contents: Kevles, Daniel J.: Cold War and hot physics: Reflections on science, security and the American state. Hoddeson, Lillian: The Los Alamos implosion program in World War II: A model for postwar American research. Pickering, Andrew: Big science as a form of life. DeVorkin, D.H.: Along for the ride: The response of American astronomers to the possibility of space research, 1945-1950. Gillmor, C.S.: Geospace and its uses: The restructuring of ionospheric physics following World War II. Needell, A.A.: Lloyd V. Berkner on organizing American science for social purposes. Forman, Paul: Social niche and self-image of the American physicist. Trower, W.P.: Luis Walter Alvarez (1911-1988). Goldberg, S.: Between old and new: Goudsmit at Brookhaven. Koppes, C.R.: National security perceptions and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Baracca, A.: “Big science” vs. “little science” in post-war physics. Heilbron, J.L.: The detection of the antiproton. Walker, M.: Cold War, denazification, and the myth of the German atomic bomb: The recovery of the German physics community from the legacies of Auschwitz, greater Germany, and Hiroshima. Stamm, T.: New opportunities--Old traditions: The struggle for autonomy of post-war German science. Eckert, M.: Heisenberg and the beginnings of nuclear energy in the FRG. Ramsey, N.F.: Molecular beams, federal support of research and Brookhaven National Laboratory. Weart, S.R.: The (re)organization of solid state physics. Khalatnikov, I.M.: Fifteen years with L.D. Landau. Sánchez-Ron, J.M.: Echoes of the Civil War: Physics in Franco's Spain. Mladjenovic, M.: Nuclear energy centres as pioneers of science in the less developed countries. Panofsky, W.K.H.: Big and small science--How different? Giuliani, G.: Physical research on solids in Italy between 1900 and 1940: A survey. Chiarotti, G.: The development of Italian solid state physics after the war. Salvini, G.: The electron synchrotron and the birth of the National Laboratories of Frascati. Silverman, A.: Birth of electron synchrotrons at Cornell. Bernardini, C.: AdA: The smallest e+e- ring. Amman, F.: The early times of electron colliders. Pestre, D.: The creation of CERN in the early 50s: Chance or necessity? Krige, J.: The installation of high-energy accelerators in Britain after the war: Big equipment but not “big science”. Lindenbaum, S.J.: Initial experiments with the Nevis cyclotron, the Brookhaven cosmotron, the Brookhaven AGS and their effects on high energy physics. Dallaporta, N.: Researches on high energy physics in Padova in the period 1945-1960. Cresti, M.: The evolution of the visual techniques: The track chambers. Telegdi, V.L.: Early work on Lepton physics. Perkins, D.H.: The birth of Pion physics. Peyrou, Ch.: The early times of strange particles physics. Bernardini, G.: Research activity at Columbia and Urbana Universities (personal recollections). Fidecaro, G.: From cosmic rays to physics with accelerators (personal recollections). Tagliaferri, G.: Post war restarting of cosmic ray research at Milan University. Belloni, L., Dilworth, C.: From little to big: A story of a European post-war collaboration with nuclear emulsions. Marshak, R.E.: Scientific and sociological contributions of the first decade of the “Rochester” conferences to the restructuring of particle physics (1950-1960). Sebastiani, Fabio, Stipcich, S.: Photographic display on the Frascati National Laboratories.

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