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Science in the early twentieth century : an encyclopedia / Jacob Darwin Hamblin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hamblin, Jacob Darwin.
- Series:
- ABC-CLIO's history of science series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--History--20th century--Encyclopedias.
- Science.
- History.
- Genre:
- Encyclopedias.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxi, 399 pages) : illustrations.
- Other Title:
- Science in the early 20th century
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : Abc-clio, [2005]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- A
- Academy of Sciences of the USSR
- Age of the Earth
- Amino Acids
- Anthropology
- Antibiotics
- Arrhenius, Svante
- Artificial Elements
- Astronomical Observatories
- Astrophysics
- Atomic Bomb
- Atomic Energy Commission
- Atomic Structure
- B
- Bateson, William
- Becquerel, Henri
- Big Bang
- Biochemistry
- Biometry
- Birth Control
- Bjerknes, Vilhelm
- Boas, Franz
- Bohr, Niels
- Boltwood, Bertram
- Bragg, William Henry
- Brain Drain
- C
- Cancer
- Carbon Dating
- Cavendish Laboratory
- Chadwick, James
- Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan
- Chemical Warfare
- Cherenkov, Pavel
- Chromosomes
- Cloud Chamber
- Cockcroft, John
- Cold War
- Colonialism
- Compton, Arthur Holly
- Computers
- Conservation
- Continental Drift
- Cosmic Rays
- Cosmology
- Crime Detection
- Curie, Marie
- Cybernetics
- Cyclotron
- D
- Davisson, Clinton
- Debye, Peter
- Determinism
- DNA
- E
- Earth Structure
- Ecology
- Eddington, Arthur Stanley
- Ehrlich, Paul
- Einstein, Albert
- Electronics
- Elitism
- Embryology
- Endocrinology
- Espionage
- Eugenics
- Evolution
- Extraterrestrial Life
- F
- Federation of Atomic Scientists
- Fermi, Enrico
- Fission
- Franck, James
- Freud, Sigmund
- G
- Game Theory
- Gamow, George
- Genetics
- Geology
- Geophysics
- Gödel, Kurt
- Great Depression
- Gutenberg, Beno
- H
- Haber, Fritz
- Haeckel, Ernst
- Hahn, Otto
- Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson
- Hale, George Ellery
- Heisenberg, Werner
- Hertzsprung, Ejnar
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Hormones
- Hubble, Edwin
- Human Experimentation
- I
- Industry
- Intelligence Testing
- International Cooperation
- International Research Council
- J
- Jeffreys, Harold
- Johannsen, Wilhelm
- Joliot, Frédéric, and Irène Joliot-Curie
- Jung, Carl
- Just, Ernest Everett
- K
- Kaiser Wilhelm Society
- Kammerer, Paul
- Kapteyn, Jacobus
- Koch, Robert
- Kurchatov, Igor
- L
- Lawrence, Ernest
- Leakey, Louis
- Leavitt, Henrietta Swan
- Light
- Lowell, Percival
- Loyalty
- Lysenko, Trofim
- M
- Manhattan Project
- Marconi, Guglielmo
- Marine Biology
- Mathematics
- McClintock, Barbara
- Mead, Margaret
- Medicine
- Meitner, Lise
- Mental Health
- Mental Retardation
- Meteorology
- Microbiology
- Millikan, Robert A.
- Missing Link
- Mohorovicic, Andrija
- Morgan, Thomas Hunt
- Mutation
- N
- National Academy of Sciences
- National Bureau of Standards
- National Science Foundation
- Nationalism
- Nazi Science
- Nobel Prize
- Nutrition
- O
- Oceanic Expeditions
- Oceanography
- Office of Naval Research
- Oort, Jan Hendrik
- Origin of Life
- P
- Patronage
- Pavlov, Ivan
- Peking Man
- Penicillin
- Pesticides
- Philosophy of Science
- Physics
- Piaget, Jean
- Pickering's Harem
- Piltdown Hoax
- Planck, Max
- Polar Expeditions
- Popper, Karl
- Psychoanalysis
- Psychology
- Public Health
- Q
- Quantum Mechanics
- Quantum Theory
- R
- Race
- Radar
- Radiation Protection
- Radio Astronomy
- Radioactivity
- Raman, Chandrasekhara Venkata
- Rediscovery of Mendel
- Relativity
- Religion
- Richter Scale
- Rockets
- Royal Society of London
- Russell, Bertrand
- Rutherford, Ernest
- S
- Schrödinger, Erwin
- Science Fiction
- Scientism
- Scopes Trial
- Seismology
- Shapley, Harlow
- Simpson, George Gaylord
- Skinner, Burrhus Frederic
- Social Progress
- Social Responsibility
- Solvay Conferences
- Soviet Science
- Sverdrup, Harald
- Szilard, Leo
- T
- Technocracy
- Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre
- Thomson, Joseph John
- Turing, Alan
- U
- Uncertainty Principle
- Uranium
- Urey, Harold
- V
- Vavilov, Sergei
- Venereal Disease
- Von Laue, Max
- Vygotsky, Lev
- W
- Wegener, Alfred
- Women
- World War I
- World War II
- Wright, Sewall
- X
- X-rays
- Y
- Yukawa, Hideki.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-377) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781851096701
- 1851096701
- OCLC:
- 56942672
- Publisher Number:
- 99990106849
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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