Science at the American Frontier: A Biography of DeWitt Bristol Brace

by M. Eugene Rudd and David Cahan

Book Overview

Science at the American Frontier is both a biography of American physicist DeWitt Bristol Brace (1859-1905) and a study of the processes by which scientific knowledge and associated instrumentation were transferred from Europe to the United States and from the east coast to the American frontier. The authors trace Brace's first-class scientific education in Boston, Baltimore, and Berlin, and they follow his career as he founded and built a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803215088
• ISBN13: 9780803215085
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"