Edward Condon's Cooperative Vision - Science, Industry, and Innovation in Modern America

Combining biographical and institutional history, Thomas C. Lassman examines the professional career of theoretical physicist Edward Condon at Princeton University, Pittsburgh's Westinghouse Electric Company and Manufacturing Company, and the National Bureau of Standards to illuminate contested visions of the usefulness of science that played out during The Great Depression, the Second World War, and the early Cold War.

About the author

Thomas C. Lassman is curator of the post-World War II rocket and missile collection at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. He previously worked at the U.S. Army Center of Military History and the Center for History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics. He was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas C Lassman, Thomas C. Lassman
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.10.2018
• EAN: 9780822945345
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-4534-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 234 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 590 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, SCIENCE / History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, Biography / Autobiography