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Science and the building of a new Japan /
This book highlights the importance of individuals in the shaping of postwar Japan by providing an historical account of how physicists constituted an influential elite. A history of science perspective provides insight into their role, helping us to understand the hybrid identity of Japanese scient...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2005.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book highlights the importance of individuals in the shaping of postwar Japan by providing an historical account of how physicists constituted an influential elite. A history of science perspective provides insight into their role, helping us to understand the hybrid identity of Japanese scientists, and how they reinvented not only themselves, but also Japan in the decades after its defeat. Low explores the lives and work of seven physicists, two of whom were Nobel prize winners, and makes use of little-known Occupation period documents, personal papers of physicists, and Japanese language source material. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 259 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-251) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781403976925 1403976929 1281367761 9781281367761 9781403968319 1403968314 9786611367763 6611367764 |