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[edited by] Trevor I. WilliamsPublication Details
BookOxford University Press1990Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS REFERENCE (MAIN) Q125 .S4317 1990 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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It also covers the epic events of recent history that sparked sudden advances, such as World War II (which gave birth to radar, jets, advanced rockets, and atomic power) and the Space Race (leading to new knowledge of the solar system, weather and communication satellites, and Teflon). Special feature sections address such discoveries as the birth control pill, plate tectonics, and organ transplants, and capsule biographies discuss the lives of pivotal figures in twentieth century science. Lavishly illustrated, Science offers a useful and entertaining survey of the spectacular discoveries of the last century, relating the advances in science to the wider current of politics and culture. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Notes
- "An Equinox book"–T.p. verso
Contents
- 1900-1914 : the individual genius. Inventors of the future ; New specialties and connections ; The new physics
- 1914-1929 : the corporate spirit. War, pictures and plastics ; Toward modern medicine ; The expanding universe
- 1929-1945 : the liberation of energy. Power for industry and war ; The victory of chemotherapy ; Splitting the atom
- 1945-1960 : the universal panacea. The advent of electronics ; The secrets of heredity ; Big science
- 1960-1973 : The giant leap. The space age ; High-tech medicine ; Quarks, lasers and satellites
- 1973-1989 : the hidden costs. The computer-driven world ; The limits of progress ; Science : necessity or luxury?
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- 0195208439
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