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Boundaries, Transformations, Historiography: Physics in Chemistry from the 1920s to the 1960s (2018)

Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 109
Issue: 3
Pages: 587-596

URI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/699996

DOI: 10.1086/699996

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Historiography Electron physics; ionization X-rays Discipline formation Physics Chemistry 20th century

The decades of the 1920s to the 1960s were a period of transformation in chemical science. The era was marked by erosion of boundaries that had often been drawn between chemistry and other scientific disciplines. In particular, theories, instruments, and mathematical approaches associated with the new physics of X-rays, the electron particle, and the electron wave enabled chemists and other physical scientists to address unsolved chemical problems of structure and mechanism and to ask new questions that further expanded and transcended disciplinary borders. In turn, the historiography of these developments reflects the pluralism of chemistry in historical narratives written by scientists, historians, philosophers, and sociologists.

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Article Carsten Reinhardt (2018) Introduction: What’s in a Name? Chemistry as a Nonclassical Approach to the World. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 559-564). unapi

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