Article ID: CBB170598238

Big Science “for the benefit of all mankind” (2024)

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Abstract A little more than a century ago at the turn of the 1920s two eminent scientists—Jean Perrin (1870-1942) in France and Arthur Eddington (1882-1944) in the United Kingdom—speculated that the energy source at the core of the Sun was a product of nuclear reactions. Their intuition was a huge departure from the theories that had prevailed until then. In the years that followed a clearer understanding 1 of the hydrogen fusion process at the core of Sun-like stars led to a Promethean ambition: reproducing and harnessing fusion reactions to gain access here on Earth to a new sustainable source of energy for generating electricity on a massive scale.

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Authors & Contributors
Batten, Alan H.
Stanley, Matthew
Crawford, Paulo
Durham, Ian T.
Gooday, Graeme J. N.
Hentschel, Klaus
Journals
British Journal for the History of Science
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
French Historical Studies
HOPOS
Publishers
Harvard University
Oxford University Press
Carleton University (Canada)
Concepts
Astronomy
Physics
Stars; stellar astronomy
Science and religion
Controversies and disputes
Sun
People
Eddington, Arthur Stanley
Perrin, Jean Baptiste
Bethe, Hans Albrecht
Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan
Freundlich, Erwin Finlay
Jeans, James Hopwood
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
20th century, late
Prehistory
Places
France
Great Britain
Chile
Portugal
Spain
Netherlands
Institutions
Royal Observatory Greenwich
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