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Before Big Science

The Pursuit of Modern Chemistry and Physics, 1800-1940

By: Mary Jo Nye

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Before Big Science

The Pursuit of Modern Chemistry and Physics, 1800-1940

By: Mary Jo Nye

Notable features of the book include an insightful analysis of the parallel trajectories of modern chemistry and physics and the work of scientists - such as John Dalton, Michael Faraday, Hermann von Helmholtz, Marie Curie, Ernest Rutherford, Dorothy Hodgkin, and Linus Pauling - who played prominent roles in the development of both disciplines.

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Harvard University Press

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0674063821

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9780674063822

Blackett

Physics, War, and Politics in the Twentieth Century

By: Mary Jo Nye

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Blackett

Physics, War, and Politics in the Twentieth Century

By: Mary Jo Nye

This is a lively and compact biography of P. M. S. Blackett, one of the most brilliant and controversial physicists of the twentieth century. Nobel laureate, leader of operational research during the Second World War, scientific advisor to the British government, President of the Royal Society, member of the House of Lords, Blackett was also denounced as a Stalinist apologist for opposing American and British development of atomic weapons, subjected to FBI surveillance, and named as a fellow traveler on George Orwell's infamous list. His service as a British Royal Navy officer in the First World War prepared Blackett to take a scientific advisory role on military matters in the mid-1930s. An international leader in the experimental techniques of the cloud chamber, he was a pioneer in the application of magnetic evidence for the geophysical theory of continental drift. But his strong political stands made him a polarizing influence, and the decisions he made capture the complexity of living a prominent twentieth-century scientific life.

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Harvard University Press

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0674015487

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9780674015487

Science in the Provinces

Scientific Communities and Provincial Leadership in France, 1860 - 1930

By: Mary Jo Nye

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Science in the Provinces

Scientific Communities and Provincial Leadership in France, 1860 - 1930

By: Mary Jo Nye

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.

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0520312627

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9780520312623

From Chemical Philosophy to Theoretical Chemistry

Dynamics of Matter and Dynamics of Disciplines, 1800-1950

By: Mary Jo Nye

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From Chemical Philosophy to Theoretical Chemistry

Dynamics of Matter and Dynamics of Disciplines, 1800-1950

By: Mary Jo Nye

How did chemistry and physics acquire their separate identities, and are they on their way to losing them again? Mary Jo Nye has written a graceful account of the historical demarcation of chemistry from physics and subsequent reconvergences of the two, from Lavoisier and Dalton in the late eighteenth century to Robinson, Ingold, and Pauling in the mid-twentieth century. Using the notion of a disciplinary "identity" analogous to ethnic or national identity, Nye develops a theory of the nature of disciplinary structure and change. She discusses the distinctive character of chemical language and theories and the role of national styles and traditions in building a scientific discipline. Anyone interested in the history of scientific thought will enjoy pondering with her the question of whether chemists of the mid-twentieth century suspected chemical explanation had been reduced to physical laws, just as Newtonian mechanical philosophers had envisioned in the eighteenth century.

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0520913566

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9780520913561

Michael Polanyi and His Generation

Origins of the Social Construction of Science

By: Mary Jo Nye

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Michael Polanyi and His Generation

Origins of the Social Construction of Science

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Describes Michael Polanyi's role in the way the philosophy of science was seen as a social enterprise, not relying entirely on empiricism and reason alone.

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University of Chicago Press

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022610317X

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9780226103174

Chemical Achievers

The Human Face of the Chemical Sciences

By: Mary Ellen Bowden

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Chemical Achievers

The Human Face of the Chemical Sciences

By: Mary Ellen Bowden

This book was designed to help teachers supplement science curricula with human stories of discovery in the chemical sciences. Chemical Achievers presents the lives and work of two types of achievers. First are the historical greats, those chemical scientists most often referred to in introductory courses. Second are those scientists who made contributions in areas of the chemical sciences that are of special relevance to modern life and the career choices students will make. The human faces summarized in this book range from Robert Boyle to Glenn Seaborg and Stephanie Kwolek. In this lively and comprehensive collection of photographs and biographies, Bowden illuminates how much the chemical sciences owe to the individual achiever. Over 150 images can be easily reproduced as overhead transparencies or other visual teaching aids.

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Chemical Heritage Foundation

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0941901122

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9780941901123

Who Will Provide? The Changing Role Of Religion In American Social Welfare

By: Mary Jo Bane

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Who Will Provide? The Changing Role Of Religion In American Social Welfare

By: Mary Jo Bane

Leading scholars examine how the church, community organizations, and the government must work together to provide for America's poor in the aftermath of welfare reform. . Who will provide for Americas children, elderly, and working families? Not since the 1930s has our nation faced such fundamental choices over how to care for all its citizens. Now, amid economic prosperity, Americans are asking what government, business, and non-profit organizations can and can’t do and what they should and shouldn’t be asked to do. As both political parties look to faith-based organizations to meet material and spiritual needs, the center of this historic debate is the changing role of religion. These essays combine a fresh perspective and detailed analysis on these pressing issues. They emerge from a three-year Harvard Seminar sponsored by the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life that brought together scholars in public policy, government, religion, sociology, law, education, and non-profit leadership. By putting the present moment in broad historical perspective, these essays offer rich insights into the resources of faith-based organizations, while cautioning against viewing their expanded role as an alternative to the government’s responsibility. In Who Will Provide? community leaders, organizational managers, public officials, and scholars will find careful analysis drawing on a number of fields to aid their work of devising better partnerships of social provision locally and nationally. It was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 2001..

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Routledge

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1000010414

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9781000010411

The Lost Elements

The Periodic Table's Shadow Side

By: Marco Fontani,Mariagrazia Costa,Mary Virginia Orna

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The Lost Elements

The Periodic Table's Shadow Side

By: Marco Fontani,Mariagrazia Costa,Mary Virginia Orna

The story of the false entries, good-faith errors, retractions, and mistakes that occurred during the formation of the Periodic Table of Elements as we know it.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199383340

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9780199383344

Structures of Life

By: Basil Achilladelis,Mary Ellen Bowden

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Structures of Life

By: Basil Achilladelis,Mary Ellen Bowden

A companion book to the CHF travelling exhibit by the same name. Describing first the instruments and then the molecules, it shows how instrumentation has helped chemistry and biology merge in the science of molecular biology.

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0941901076

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From Chemical Philosophy to Theoretical Chemistry

Dynamics of Matter and Dynamics of Disciplines, 1800-1950

By: Mary Jo Nye

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Dynamics of Matter and Dynamics of Disciplines, 1800-1950

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Michael Polanyi and His Generation

Origins of the Social Construction of Science

By: Mary Jo Nye

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Michael Polanyi and His Generation

Origins of the Social Construction of Science

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Describes Michael Polanyi's role in the way the philosophy of science was seen as a social enterprise, not relying entirely on empiricism and reason alone.

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Before Big Science

Before Big Science

Blackett

Blackett

Science in the Provinces

Science in the Provinces

From Chemical Philosophy to Theoretical Chemistry

From Chemical Philosophy to Theoretical Chemistry

Michael Polanyi and His Generation

Michael Polanyi and His Generation

Chemical Achievers

Chemical Achievers

Who Will Provide? The Changing Role Of Religion In American Social Welfare

Who Will Provide? The Changing Role Of Religion In American Social Welfare

The Lost Elements

The Lost Elements

Structures of Life

Structures of Life

From Chemical Philosophy to Theoretical Chemistry

From Chemical Philosophy to Theoretical Chemistry

Michael Polanyi and His Generation

Michael Polanyi and His Generation

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