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Science in America, a documentary history, 1900-1939 / edited, selected, and with an introduction by Nathan Reingold and Ida H. Reingold.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Chicago history of science and medicine
- Chicago history of science and medicine.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--History.
- Science.
- History.
- Science--United States--History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 490 ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1981]
- Summary:
- From this unique collection of documents emerges a fresh, intimate, often striking picture of the life of science in the United States in the era when American investigators became central to scientific advances in many fields. Written in the course of the events described, these letters, memoranda, and other records-for the most part previously unpublished-convey personalities and issues with an immediacy hard to capture in conventional historical narratives.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0226709469 :
- OCLC:
- 7278288
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