{"product_id":"redirecting-science-niels-bohr-philanthropy-and-the-rise-of-nuclear-physics-hardback-9780521353663","title":"Redirecting Science; Niels Bohr, Philanthropy, and the Rise of Nuclear Physics (Hardback) 9780521353663","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRedirecting Science\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNiels Bohr, Philanthropy, and the Rise of Nuclear Physics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA study for understanding the complex interconnections between basic science and its sources of economic support in the period between the two world wars.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eFinn Aaserud (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521353663, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 29 June 1990\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e372 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.7 x 16.1 x 2.4 cm, 0.627 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Although Redirecting Science may be of more direct interest to scholars of contemporary physics history, it is so agreeably written that it may find a wider audience.\"   Jeremy Bernstein, Nature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAn 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 Copenhagen Institute was a central workplace in the development and formulation of quantum mechanics in the 1920s and later became an important centre for nuclear research in the 1930s. In his book, Dr Aaserud brings together the scholarship on the internal origins and development of nuclear physics in the 1930s with descriptions of the concurrent changes in private support for international basic science, particularly as represented by Rockefeller Foundation philanthropy. In the process, the book places the emergence of nuclear physics in a larger historical context.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Prologue: the Copenhagen spirit\u003cbr\u003e 1. Science policy and fund raising until 1934\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Copenhagen spirit at work, late 1920s to mid 1930s\u003cbr\u003e 3. The refugee problem, 1933 to 1935\u003cbr\u003e 4. Experimental biology, late 1920s to 1935\u003cbr\u003e 5. Consolidation of the transition, 1935 to 1940\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of science [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of science\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20science%20%5BPDX%5D%22\"\u003ePDX\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007122100504,"sku":"9780521353663","price":81.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521353663i_02471d2a-3c4a-4ffc-8700-25bdc70e1e29.jpg?v=1691375609","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/redirecting-science-niels-bohr-philanthropy-and-the-rise-of-nuclear-physics-hardback-9780521353663","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}