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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"history of radioactivity"”.
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Radioactivists: community, controversy and the rise of nuclear physics
This dissertation is a social and technical history of radioactivity research in the 1920s, and of the emergence of nuclear physics in the 1930s. It is concerned with the production, circulation and certification of practice and knowledge in these fields of scientific research. By 1914, the study …
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Gender, Politics, and Radioactivity Research in Vienna, 1910-1938
… could it mean to be a physicist specialized in radioactivity in the early 20th century Vienna? More specifically, what could it mean to be a woman experimenter in radioactivity during that time? This dissertation focuses on the lived experiences of the women experimenters of the <i>Institut für …