001479015 000__ 05964nam\a22009375i\4500 001479015 001__ 1479015 001479015 003__ DE-B1597 001479015 005__ 20231026035008.0 001479015 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001479015 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001479015 008__ 210830t20112013mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001479015 019__ $$a(OCoLC)840440242 001479015 020__ $$a9780674062740 001479015 0247_ $$a10.4159/harvard.9780674062740$$2doi 001479015 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)178310 001479015 035__ $$a(OCoLC)758390009 001479015 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001479015 0410_ $$aeng 001479015 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001479015 050_4 $$aQC9.U5$$bC36 2011eb 001479015 072_7 $$aHIS036060$$2bisacsh 001479015 08204 $$a530.0973/0904$$222 001479015 1001_ $$aCassidy, David C., $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001479015 24512 $$aA Short History of Physics in the American Century /$$cDavid C. Cassidy. 001479015 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2011] 001479015 264_4 $$c©2013 001479015 300__ $$a1 online resource (224 p.) :$$b6 tables 001479015 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001479015 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001479015 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001479015 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001479015 4900_ $$aNew Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine 001479015 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tIntroduction -- $$t1. Entering the New Century -- $$t2. American Physics Comes of Age -- $$t3. Surviving the Depression -- $$t4. The Physicists' War -- $$t5. Taming the Endless Frontier -- $$t6. The New Physics -- $$t7. Sputnik: Action and Reaction -- $$t8. Revising the Partnership -- $$tAppendix: Tables -- $$tNotes -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tIndex 001479015 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001479015 520__ $$aAs the twentieth century drew to a close, computers, the Internet, and nanotechnology were central to modern American life. Yet the advances in physics underlying these applications are poorly understood and widely underappreciated by U.S. citizens today. In this concise overview, David C. Cassidy sharpens our perspective on modern physics by viewing this foundational science through the lens of America's engagement with the political events of a tumultuous century. American physics first stirred in the 1890s-around the time x-rays and radioactivity were discovered in Germany-with the founding of graduate schools on the German model. Yet American research lagged behind the great European laboratories until highly effective domestic policies, together with the exodus of physicists from fascist countries, brought the nation into the first ranks of world research in the 1930s. The creation of the atomic bomb and radar during World War II ensured lavish government support for particle physics, along with computation, solid-state physics, and military communication. These advances facilitated space exploration and led to the global expansion of the Internet. Well into the 1960s, physicists bolstered the United States' international status, and the nation repaid the favor through massive outlays of federal, military, and philanthropic funding. But gradually America relinquished its postwar commitment to scientific leadership, and the nation found itself struggling to maintain a competitive edge in science education and research. 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