Science in America

Science in America
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Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages : 510
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ISBN-10 : 0226709469
ISBN-13 : 9780226709468
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Book Synopsis Science in America by : Nathan Reingold

Download or read book Science in America written by Nathan Reingold and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 1981 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From this unique collection of documents emerges a fresh, intimate, often striking picture of the life of science in the United States in the era when American investigators became central to scientific advances in many fields. Written in the course of the events described, these letters, memoranda, and other records—for the most part previously unpublished—convey personalities and issues with an immediacy hard to capture in conventional historical narratives.


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