Redirecting Science
Subtitle: Niels Bohr, Philanthropy, and the Rise of Nuclear Physics
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 30, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780521530675
Subjects: Atomic & molecular physics; History of science; Science/Mathematics; Science; History; Nuclear Physics; Nuclear physics--Research--Denmark--History; Science / History; Science-Nuclear Physics; Technology / General
First sentence: It is symptomatic of the general lack of attention to the economic plight of basic science before the Second World War that the many accounts by physicists who worked at the institute rarely mention Bohr's activities as a policymaker and fund-raiser, and never suggest a relationship between the economic realities of the institute and the science pursued there.