Redirecting Science: Niels Bohr, Philanthropy, and the Rise of Nuclear Physics

by Finn Aaserud

Book Overview

An important study for understanding the complex interconnections between basic science and its sources of economic support in the period between the two world wars. The focus of the study is on the Institute for Theoretical Physics (later renamed the Niels Bohr Institute) at Copenhagen University, and the role of its director, the eminent Danish physicist Niels Bohr, in the funding and administration of the Institute. Under Bohr's direction, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521353661
• ISBN13: 9780521353663
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"