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The long arm of Moore's law :microelectronics and American science
How, beginning in the mid 1960s, the US semiconductor industry helped shape changes in American science, including a new orientation to the short-term and the commercial. Since the mid 1960s, American science has undergone significant changes in the way it is organized, funded, and practiced. These changes include the decline of basic research by corporations; a new orientation toward the short…
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Instrumental community : Probe Microscopy and the Path to Nanotechnology
In this volume, the author argues that this technology-centric view does not explain how these microscopes helped to launch nanotechnology - and fails to acknowledge the agency of the microscopists in making the STM and its variants critically important tools.
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The squares :US physical and engineering scientists in the long 1970s
"Looks at how "square" engineers and scientists accomodated their work to a rapidly shifting social and political landscape in the long 1970s"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Instrumental community :probe microscopy and the path to nanotechnology
In this volume, the author argues that this technology-centric view does not explain how these microscopes helped to launch nanotechnology - and fails to acknowledge the agency of the microscopists in making the STM and its variants critically important tools.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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The Squares: US Physical and Engineering Scientists in the Long 1970s
When ungroovy scientists did groovy science: how non-activist scientists and engineers adapted their work to a rapidly changing social and political landscape. In The Squares, Cyrus Mody shows how, between the late 1960s and the early 1980s, some scientists and engineers who did not consider themselves activists, New Leftists, or members of the counterculture accommodated their work to the r…
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The Squares: US Physical and Engineering Scientists in the Long 1970s
In The Squares, Cyrus Mody shows how, between the late 1960s and the early 1980s, some scientists and engineers who did not consider themselves activists, New Leftists, or members of the counterculture accommodated their work to the rapidly changing social and political landscape of the time. These “square scientists,” Mody shows, began to do many of the things that the counterculture urged…
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