The Twentieth-century sciences
Subtitle: studies in the biography of ideas.
By: Essays by Erik H. Erikson [and others] Edited by Gerald Holton.
Contributors: Erikson, Erik H. 1902-; Holton, Gerald James, ed.
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1972
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 527
Subjects: Science -- History -- Addresses, essays, lectures; Social sciences -- History -- Addresses, essays, lectures; Scientists -- Biography -- Addresses, essays, lectures; Social scientists -- Biography -- Addresses, essays, lectures; Research -- History -- Addresses, essays, lectures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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Table of contents: title: Autobiographic notes on the identity crisis, by E. H. Erikson.; title: Tradition, ecology, and institution in the history of sociology, by E. Shils.; title: On building social system theory: a personal history, by T.  Parsons.; title: Economics in a golden age: a personal memoir, by P. A. Samuelson.; title: The continuity of genetics, by C. Stern.; title: DNA, by G. S. Stent.; title: Francis Crick, DNA, and the central dogma, by R. Olby.; title: Fifty years of progress in structural chemistry and molecular biology, by L. Pauling.; title: The history of polio research in the United States: appraisal and lessons, by S. Benison.; title: Mach, Einstein, and the search for reality, by G. Holton.; title: The roots of complementarity, by G. Holton.; title: Scientific teams and scientific laboratories, by A. M. Weinberg.; title: The Great Instauration of 1940: the organization of scientific research for war, by A. H. Dupree.; title: My fight against team research, by R. R. Wilson.; title: Computers as information-processing machines in modern science, by W. O. Baker.