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Zusatztext A fascinating account of how an entire industry developed from very sparse beginnings and! like all good histories! it offers lessons to be learned. Informationen zum Autor Sean F. Johnston is Professor of Science, Technology and Society at the University of Glasgow, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Chartered Physicist (Institute of Physics). He has worked as a scientist, researcher and development manager at North American and British firms and at the University of Leeds, and as an historian at the Universities of York and Glasgow. Johnston is a recipient of the Paul Bunge Prize of the Hans R. Jenemann Foundation, administered by the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, for the history of scientific instruments and of the George E. Davis Medal of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, for a history of chemical engineering co-written with Colin Divall, and has been International Scholar of the Society for the History of Technology. He lives in southern Scotland, where he teaches and researches the historical, social and philosophical aspects of science and technology. Klappentext This account tracks the Allied atomic energy experts who emerged from the Manhattan Project to explore optimistic but distinct paths in the USA, UK and Canada. Characterized successively as admired atomic scientists, mistrusted spies and heroic engineers, their identities were ultimately shaped by nuclear accidents. Zusammenfassung This account tracks the Allied atomic energy experts who emerged from the Manhattan Project to explore optimistic but distinct paths in the USA, UK and Canada. Characterized successively as admired atomic scientists, mistrusted spies and heroic engineers, their identities were ultimately shaped by nuclear accidents. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction: the neutron and its progeny PART A: GESTATION 2: New knowledge for new purposes 3: Implanting industrial cultures PART B: INCUBATION 4: The atomic nursery 5: 'Like children in a toy factory' PART C: EMERGENCE 6: A state-managed profession 7: Nuclear specialists at work PART D: REPRESENTATIONS 8: Unstable impressions 9: Conclusions: careers from the Manhattan Project to Fukushima ...
