More than ninety percent of all scientific history has been made during the last half century. So far, however, only a fraction of historical scholarship has dealt with this period. Merely a decade ago, most scientific historians considered recent science - the scientific culture created, lived and remembered by contemporary scientists - an area of study best left to the historical actors themselves.
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Only one or two decades ago most historians of science considered recent science - the scientific culture created, lived and remembered by contemporary scientists - an area of study best left to the historical actors themselves. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Only one or two decades ago most historians of science considered recent science - the scientific culture created, lived and remembered by contemporary scientists - an area of study best left to the historical actors themselves. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
recent technoscience, visualizing tools, neuroscience knowledge, allosteric proteins, contemporary technoscience, radio disturbances, recent science, large technological systems, discovery accounts, electric power sector, contemporary science, immunology laboratory, allosteric enzymes, normative category Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, World War, Cambridge University Press, Cancer Foundation, University of Chicago Press, Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, National Science Foundation, Smithsonian Institution, Intelligence Agents, Johns Hopkins University Press, Latin America, National Academy of Sciences, Soviet Union, Stanford University Press, International Workshop, Ness York, Pasteur Institute, Paul Forman, Hubble Space Telescope, Princeton University Press, Rockefeller Foundation, Basic Books, Dominique Pestre New!
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- The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson on 4 pages
- Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis on 4 pages
- Big Science: The Growth of Large-Scale Research by Peter Louis Galison on 4 pages
- The Cold War (Cambridge Perspectives in History) by Mike Sewell on 4 pages
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn on page 191, page 256, and page 258
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