The history of science in the twentieth century is one of the most exciting fields currently being developed. This substantial and authoritative volume, demonst

"This encyclopedia covers a period of enormous scientific discovery. Scientists developed previously unimagined theories, disciplines, and applications: relativ

The distinction between basic and applied research was central to twentieth-century science and policymaking, and if this framework has been contested in recent

Recent scholarship has revealed that pioneering Victorian scientists endeavored through voluminous writing to raise public interest in science and its implicati