Science History
Publication date: 1993
Edition Details: Lindqvist, Svante, editor; Hedin, Marika and Kaiserfeld, Thomas, associate editors.
Physical Details: lv + 516 pp.; illus.; notes; bibl.; index
Description Contents: Lindqvist, Svante: Introductory essay: Harry Martinson and the periphery of the atom. Jonsson, Kjell: Physics as culture: Science and Weltanschauung in inter-war Sweden. Gieser, Suzanne: Philosophy and modern physics in Sweden: C.W. Oseen, Oskar Klein, and the intellectual traditions of Uppsala and Lund, 1920-1940. Amelin, Olov: Physics as ideology: Svante Arrhenius as a writer of popular science. Larsson, Ulf: Physics in a stronghold of engineering: Professorial appointments at the Royal Institute of Technology, 1922-1985. Wråkberg, Urban: Where science turns into sports and politics: The decline of Swedish polar research in the early 20th century. Widmalm, Sven: Big science in a small country: Sweden and CERN II. Weinberger, Hans: Physics in uniform: The Swedish Institute of Military Physics, 1939-1945. Nybom, Thorsten: The socialization of science: Technical research and the natural sciences in Swedish research policy in the 1930s and 1940s. Lindström, Stefan: Implementing the welfare state: The emergence of Swedish atomic energy research policy. Hufbauer, Karl: Breakthrough on the periphery: Bengt Edlén and the identification of the coronal lines, 1939-1945. Fridlund, Mats: International acclaim and Swedish obscurity: The fall and rise of David Enskog. Hamilton, Paul C.: Reaching out: Janne Rydberg's struggle for recognition. Stawström, Carl-Olov: Relative acceptance: The introduction and reception of Einstein's theories in Sweden 1905-1965. Kaiserfeld, Thomas: When theory addresses experiment: The Siegbahn-Sommerfeld correspondence, 1917-1940. Lundgren, Anders: The ideological use of instrumentation: The Svedberg, atoms, and the structure of matter. Elzen, Boelie: The failure of a successful artifact: The Svedberg ultracentrifuge. Hå rd, Mikael: Technological drift in science: Swedish radio astronomy in the making, 1942-1976. Kay, Lily E.: The intellectual politics of laboratory technology: The protein network and the Tiselius apparatus. Marelius, Anders, Noreland, Erik: The proud tower: Knut Å ngström and the international style of fin de siècle physics buildings. Bond-Fahlberg, Margareta: Bibliography of the history of 20th-century Swedish physics.
Review Hentschel, K. (1996) Review of "Center on the periphery: Historical aspects of 20th-century Swedish physics". Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences (pp. 167-69).
Review Abbri, F. (1994) Review of "Center on the periphery: Historical aspects of 20th-century Swedish physics". Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza (pp. 907-9).
Review Friedman, R.M. (1994) Review of "Center on the periphery: Historical aspects of 20th-century Swedish physics". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 350-51).
Review Kragh, H. (1994) Review of "Center on the periphery: Historical aspects of 20th-century Swedish physics". Lychnos (pp. 279-81).
Review Hessenbruch, A. (1995) Review of "Center on the periphery: Historical aspects of 20th-century Swedish physics". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 246-47).
Review Aaserud, F. (1994) Review of "Center on the periphery: Historical aspects of 20th-century Swedish physics". Science (pp. 1633-34).
Similar Citations
Article
Eric Vandendriessche;
(2022)
The concrete numbers of “primitive” societies: A historiographical approach
(/p/isis/citation/CBB201980517/)
Article
Seng, Loh Kah;
(2008)
“Our lives are bad but our luck is good”: A Social History of Leprosy in Singapore
(/p/isis/citation/CBB000930667/)
Article
Lukas Held;
(2022)
Motivationspsychologen als politische Aktivisten: Zur Politik der Selbststeuerung in den USA der langen 1960er Jahre [Motivational Psychologists as Political Activists. On the Politics of Self-Direction in the United States of the Long 1960s]
(/p/isis/citation/CBB798705541/)
Book
Victoria Cain;
(2021)
Schools and Screens: A Watchful History
(/p/isis/citation/CBB066062419/)
Article
Cooper, Jill E.;
(1997)
Keeping the girls on the line: The medical department and women workers at AT&T, 1913-1940
(/p/isis/citation/CBB000079405/)
Chapter
Schlich, Thomas;
(2021)
Wax paste and vaccination: alternatives to surgical gloves for infection control, 1880-1945
(/p/isis/citation/CBB810093026/)
Chapter
Erica Levin;
(2018)
Sounding Snows: Bodily Static and the Politics of Visibility during the Vietnam War
(/p/isis/citation/CBB021755762/)
Chapter
Steiner, Shepherd;
(2018)
Prostheses or Technical Extensions: Rereading the Work of Bernd and Hilla Becher
(/p/isis/citation/CBB170295326/)
Book
Rudolf Carnap;
Christian Damböck;
(2021)
Rudolf Carnap, Tagebücher. Band 1. 1908-1919, 2022 (B)
(/p/isis/citation/CBB548437691/)
Book
Rudolf Carnap;
Christian Damböck;
(2022)
Rudolf Carnap, Tagebücher. Band 2. 1920-1935, 2022 (B)
(/p/isis/citation/CBB699801168/)
Book
Philippe Huneman;
(2023)
Death: Perspectives from the Philosophy of Biology
(/p/isis/citation/CBB508325912/)
Chapter
Behrends, Elke;
(1997)
Die Auswirkungen des Boykotts der deutschen Wissenschaft nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg auf das Referatenwesen: Die Reichszentrale für naturwissenschaftliche Berichterstattung
(/p/isis/citation/CBB000076227/)
Article
Labbé, Morgane;
(1997)
La statistique raciale: Une impasse scientifique et sa “solution” politique sous le IIIe Reich
(/p/isis/citation/CBB000076095/)
Article
Michael Kent;
Vivette García-Deister;
Carlos López-Beltrán;
Ricardo Ventura Santos;
Ernesto Schwartz-Marín;
Peter Wade;
(2015)
Building the Genomic Nation: ‘Homo Brasilis’ and the ‘Genoma Mexicano’ in Comparative Cultural Perspective
(/p/isis/citation/CBB543686037/)
Book
Wheaton, Bruce R.;
(1981)
The rise and fall of the aether: Einstein in context
(/p/isis/citation/CBB000017304/)
Essay Review
Shinn, Terry;
(1986)
Raisonnement scientifique et réseaux sociaux dans la physique de l'entre-deux-guerres
(/p/isis/citation/CBB000060224/)
Article
Emily O'Gorman;
James Beattie;
Matthew Henry;
(2016)
Histories of Climate, Science, and Colonization in Australia and New Zealand, 1800–1945
(/p/isis/citation/CBB574597140/)
Article
Kevin J. Holland;
(Fall/Winter 2012)
Short Takes: Colonel Stevens and the CNR
(/p/isis/citation/CBB930041675/)
Article
Matthew J. Cousineau;
(2015)
Mass Media as a Discursive Resource and the Construction of Engineering Selves
(/p/isis/citation/CBB569758622/)
Article
Simone Turchetti;
(2022)
A Diplomacy Turn? Writing the History of Science in the Context of International Relations
(/p/isis/citation/CBB101868172/)
Be the first to comment!