Book ID: CBB000051569

James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the making of the nuclear age (1993)

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Hershberg, James G. (Author)


Knopf


Publication Date: 1993
Physical Details: ix + 948 pp.; illus.; notes; index

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Review Wang, J. (1998) Review of "James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the making of the nuclear age". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 113-15). unapi

Review Westwick, P.J. (1998) Review of "James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the making of the nuclear age". Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences (p. 355). unapi

Review Gruber, C.S. (1994) Review of "James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the making of the nuclear age". Science (pp. 989-90). unapi

Review Smyser, W.R. (1996) Review of "James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the making of the nuclear age". German Studies Review (pp. 186-87). unapi

Review Bundy, M. (1994) Review of "James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the making of the nuclear age". Nature (pp. 365-66). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Reisch, George A.
Wray, K. Brad
Bartlett, Paul D.
Biddle, Justin B.
Conant, Jennet
Duschl, Richard A.
Journals
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
HOPOS
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
Bulletin for the History of Chemistry
History of Science
Publishers
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Johns Hopkins University
Simon & Schuster
SUNY Press
Concepts
Philosophy of science
History of science, as a discipline
Cold War
Science and politics
Science education and teaching
Chemistry
People
Conant, James Bryant
Kuhn, Thomas S.
Bush, Vannevar
Nash, Leonard Kollender
Carson, Rachel Louise
Cohen, I. Bernard
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
19th century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Institutions
Harvard University
University of Pennsylvania
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