Helga Nowotny, Ulrike Felt

After the Breakthrough

The Emergence of High-Temperature Superconductivity as a Research Field

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Short book on the history and sociology of science surrounding the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9780521524797
• ISBN-10: 0521524792
• Artikelnr.: 22457639

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: the emergence of a new research field
2. The context of the discovery
3. Reconfiguring actors and knowledge: the organization of a new research field
4. Academic research, science policy, and the industrial connection: setting up national high-temperature superconductivity programs
5. Science and the media: newspapers and their 'HTS story'
6. The innovation machinery of science: the case of HTS
Bibliography.