History of CERN, III (History of Cern, Vol 3) [Hardcover]

J. Krige (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1997 | ISBN-10: 0444896554 | ISBN-13: 978-0444896551 | Edition: 1

The present volume covers the story of the history of CERN from the mid 1960s to the late 1970s.

The book is organized in three main parts. The first, containing contributions by historians of science, perceives the laboratory as being at the node of a complex of interconnected relationships between scientists and science managers on the staff, the users in the member states, and the governments which were called upon to finance the organization. Parts II and III include chapters by practising scientists. The former surveys the theoretical and experimental physics results obtained at CERN in this period, while the latter describes the development of the laboratory's accelerator complex and Charpak detection techniques.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 674 pages
• Publisher: North Holland; 1 edition (January 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0444896554
• ISBN-13: 978-0444896551
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 7.8 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,382,012 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

My first PhD degree was in Physical Chemistry. I left the South African Atomic Energy Board when I was effectively asked to contribute to their nuclear weapons project, now discontinued. I got a second PhD at the University of Sussex in England, and became an historian working at the intersection between the history of science and technology and the foreign policy of governments. I concentrate on knowledge that is 'dual-use', i.e. civil and military, above all in the nuclear and space sectors. My time period is the Cold war. In the initial stages of my career I wrote about the place of this knowledge in relationships between major European powers. For the last decade my focus has shifted to U.S. - European relationships. I am interested in how the United States uses its scientific and technological pre-eminence in these sensitive domains as an instrument of soft power, and as a tool to shape the research agendas of its allies.