After the Breakthrough - The Emergence of High Temperature Superconductivity As a Research

Klappentext Short book on the history and sociology of science surrounding the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity. Zusammenfassung The discovery of high-temperature superconductivity was hailed as a major scientific breakthrough! inducing an unprecedented wave of 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: the emergence of a new research field; 2. The context of the discovery; 3. Reconfiguring actors and knowledge: the organization of a new research field; 4. Academic research, science policy, and the industrial connection: setting up national high-temperature superconductivity programs; 5. Science and the media: newspapers and their 'HTS story'; 6. The innovation machinery of science: the case of HTS; Bibliography.

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• Authors: Ulrike Felt, Felt Ulrike, Helga Nowotny, Helga (Universitat Wien Nowotny, Helga Felt Nowotny, Nowotny Helga
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.08.2002
• EAN: 9780521524797
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52479-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; SCIENCE / Physics / Electricity, SCIENCE / Physics / Magnetism, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, SCIENCE / Physics / Electromagnetism, History of Science, Electricity, electromagnetism and magnetism