Trafficking materials and gendered experimental practices
Subtitle: radium research in early 20th century Vienna
By: Maria Rentetzi.
Contributors: Universität Wien. Institut für Radiumforschung und Kernphysik.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780231135580; 9780231509596
Subjects: Blau, Marietta, -- 1894-1970; Radioactivity -- Research -- Austria -- Vienna -- History -- 20th century; Radium -- Research -- Austria -- Vienna -- History -- 20th century; Women in science -- Austria -- Vienna -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The biography of a trafficking material; title: Designing (for) a new scientific discipline; title: Gender, science, and the city; title: The Institute for Radium Research in Red Vienna; title: From Cambridge to Vienna; title: The aftermath of the Cambridge- Vienna controversy; title: Marietta Blau on the margins of nuclear and particle physics.