Science in the twentieth century and beyond / Jon Agar.
By: Agar, Jon [author.]
Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm) [distributor.]Series: History of science (Polity Press): Publisher: Cambridge : Polity Press, 2012Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780745675794; 9780745634692Other title: Science in the 20th century and beyondSubject(s): Science -- History -- 20th century | Science -- History -- 21st century | Discoveries in science -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 509.04 Online resources: Click here to access online | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| ebook | House of Lords Library - Palace Online access | ELECTRONIC RESOURCES (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 2020-1362 |
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I. Science after 1900 -- New physics -- New sciences of life -- New sciences of the self -- II. Sciences in a world of conflict -- Science and the first world war -- Crisis : quantum theories and other Weimar sciences -- Science and imperial order -- Expanding universes : private wealth and American science -- Revolutions and materialism -- Nazi science -- Scaling up, scaling down -- III. Second world war and cold war -- Science and the second world war -- Trials of science in the atomic age -- Cold war spaces -- Cold war sciences (1) : sciences from the working world of atomic projects -- Cold war sciences (2) : sciences from information systems -- IV. Sciences of our world -- Transition : sea change in the long 1960s -- Networks -- Connecting ends -- V. Science in the twentieth century and beyond.