Science in America: A Documentary History, 1900-1939 (Chicago History of Science and Medicine) - Hardcover

 
9780226709468: Science in America: A Documentary History, 1900-1939 (Chicago History of Science and Medicine)

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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Written in the course of the events described, these letters, memoranda, and other records—for the most part previously unpublished—convey personalities and issues with an immediacy hard to capture in conventional historical narratives.

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Nathan Reingold is editor of the Joseph Henry Papers at the Smithsonian Institution. Ida H. Reingoldis a mathematician who has authored numerous technical papers.

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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Written in the course of the events described, these letters, memoranda, and other records-for the most part previously unpublished-convey personalities and issues with an immediacy hard to capture in conventional historical narratives.

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