Science in America
Subtitle: A Documentary History, 1900-1939 (Chicago History of Science and Medicine)
Contributors: Nathan Reingold (Editor); Ida H. Reingold (Editor)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: November 1, 1982
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 497
ISBN-13: 9780226709468
Subjects: History Of Science; First World War, 1914-1918; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; c 1900 - c 1914; Science; Science/Mathematics; USA; General; Science / General; History; United States
First sentence: Near the end of 1901 Andrew Carnegie, the great steel maker of the United States, announced a gift to found an institution to somehow encourage what we now call basic research.