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Cyrus C. M. Mody The Squares (Paperback) Inside Technology (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- Squares : US Physical and Engineering Scientists in the Long 1970s
- Publication Name
- The Squares
- Title
- The Squares
- Subtitle
- US Physical and Engineering Scientists in the Long 1970s
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9780262543613
- ISBN
- 9780262543613
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, Science, History
- Release Year
- 2022
- Release Date
- 12/07/2022
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Series
- Inside Technology
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Topic
- United States / 20th Century, General, History
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 19.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 422 Pages
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When ungroovy scientists did groovy science- how non-activist scientists and engineers adapted their work to a rapidly changing social and political landscape. In The Squares , Cyrus Mody shows how, between the late 1960s and the early 1980s, some scientists and engineers who did not consider themselves activists, New Leftists, or members of the counterculture accommodated their work to the rapidly changing social and political landscape of the time. These "square scientists," Mody shows, began to do many of the things that the counterculture urged- turn away from military-industrial funding, become more interdisciplinary, and focus their research on solving problems of civil society. During the period Mody calls "the long 1970s," ungroovy scientists were doing groovy science. Mody offers a series of case studies of some of these collective efforts by non-activist scientists to use their technical knowledge for the good of society. He considers the region around Santa Barbara and the interplay of public universities, think tanks, established firms, new companies, philanthropies, and social movement organizations. He looks at Stanford University's transition from Cold War science to commercialized technoscience; NASA's search for a post-Apollo mission; the unsuccessful foray into solar energy by Nobel laureate Jack Kilby; the "civilianization" of the US semiconductor industry; and systems engineer Arthur D. Hall's ill-fated promotion of automated agriculture.
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MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262543613
ISBN-13
9780262543613
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9057238111
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Book Title
Squares : US Physical and Engineering Scientists in the Long 1970s
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
United States / 20th Century, General, History
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Science, History
Number of Pages
422 Pages
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Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
19.7 Oz
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Q149.U5m63 2022
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Included in Physics Today 's "Books and more that stood out in 2022" list "In The Squares , historian Cyrus Mody examines what it was like to be an ordinary, or 'square,' physicist during the 1970s. Although that decade is typically seen as being more culturally conservative than the flower-power '60s, Mody demonstrates that it was an era in which even many physicists who self-identified as apolitical began working on societally engaged research topics such as solar power..." the squares are fortunate that a person of Mody's talents has taken them up." - -Physics Today
Table of Content
Preface and Acknowledgments ix List of Figures xiii 1 Society in Disarray? Professional Societies and Physics in the 1970s 1 2 Turn On, Tune In, Start Up: The Experimental Life in Santa Barbara 53 3 A Federation of Bull Sessions: Interdisciplinarity at Stanford 93 4 Nothing Fails like Success: From Moon to Earth at NASA 135 5 Mistaking the Sunset for the Dawn: Jack Kilby's Solar Boom and Bust 177 6 An End to Exceptionalism: Philips, Signetics, and Global Silicon Valley 219 7 Engineering and Applied Physics in the Age of Fracture 259 Notes 313 Index 389
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2021-035172
Dewey Decimal
502.373
Series
Inside Technology Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
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