Redirecting Science: Niels Bohr, Philanthropy, and the Rise of Nuclear Physics

by Finn Aaserud

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An important study for understanding the complex interconnections between basic science and its sources of economic support in the period between the two world wars. The focus of the study is on the Institute for Theoretical Physics (later renamed the Niels Bohr Institute) at Copenhagen University, and the role of its director, the eminent Danish physicist Niels Bohr, in the funding and administration of the Institute. Under Bohr's direction, the...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0521353661

ISBN13:9780521353663

Release Date:June 1990

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:372 Pages

Weight:1.45 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"

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