After the Breakthrough: The Emergence of High-Temperature Superconductivity as a Research Field

by Helga Nowotny and Ulrike Felt

Book Overview

The discovery of high-temperature superconductivity was hailed as a major scientific breakthrough, inducing an unprecedented excitement and expectation among the scientific community and in the international press. This book sets this research breakthrough in context, and reconstructs the history of the discovery. The authors analyse the emergence of this new research field and the way its development was shaped by scientists and science policy-makers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521524792
• ISBN13: 9780521524797
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.6" x 8.5"