Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Kostas Gavroglu on van der Waals - Dan Kevles - Eric L. Mills - Alex Soojung-Kim Pang on Edward Bowles - S.S. Schweber on John Clarke Slater - Lewis Pyenson
Reference : 100911
(1990)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1990 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 237 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 1990 "Contents, Chapitres : Kostas Gavroglu : The reaction of the British physicists and chemists to van der Waals' early work and to the law of corresponding states - Dan Kevles : Cold war and hot physics : Science, security, and the American state, 1945-1956 - Eric L. Mills : Useful in many capacities. An early career in American physical oceanography - Alex Soojung-Kim Pang : Edward Bowles and radio engineering at MIT, 1920-1940 - S.S. Schweber : The young John Clarke Slater and the development of quantum chemistry; Reviews and bibliographical essays - Lewis Pyenson : Over the bounding main" plastified wrappers, transparent, else near fine, no markings - pages 200 to 436