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      Between Science And Industry: Institutions In The History Of Materials Research

      Materials science institutions have always been crucial to the development of materials research. Even before materials science emerged as a discipline in the 20th century, these institutions existed in various…

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      Hermeneutics and the Natural Sciences

      Attests to the the world-wide development of a hermeneutical approach to the natural sciences. This title raises such questions: What is a phenomenology of ‘scientific’ perception? How does meaning arise…

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      Hermeneutics and the Natural Sciences

      Attests to the the world-wide development of a hermeneutical approach to the natural sciences. This title raises such questions: What is a phenomenology of ‘scientific’ perception? How does meaning arise…

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      The Play of Nature: Experimentation as Performance

      Robert P. Crease

      This novel approach to philosophy of science asserts that experimentation is at the center of science and explains the experimental process through an analogy with theatrical performance.

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      World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement

      Robert P. Crease

      Millions of transactions each day depend on a reliable network of weights and measures. Crease traces the evolution of this international system from the use of flutes to measure distance…

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      Making Physics: A Biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1946-1972

      Robert Crease

      This text tells the stories of Brookhaven National Laboratory’s scientists and their research, which has included detailed descriptions of the structure of the nucleus, early attempts at radiotherapy for inoperable…

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      The Workshop and the World: What Ten Thinkers Can Teach Us About Science and Authority

      Robert P. Crease (Stony Brook University)

      A fascinating look at key thinkers throughout history who have shaped public perception of science and the role of authority.

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      The Leak

      Robert P. Crease,Peter D. Bond

      "This is a story about the closure of a major US research instrument due to posturing politicians, fake facts, scientists untrained in public speaking, and a Federal bureaucracy unable to…

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      The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg

      Robert P. Crease (Stony Brook University)

      Any reader who aspires to be scientifically literate will find this a good starting place. -Publishers Weekly

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      The Second Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics

      Robert P Crease,Charles C Mann

      The Second Creation is a dramatic–and human–chronicle of scientific investigators at the last frontier of knowledge. Robert Crease and Charles Mann take the reader on a fascinating journey in search…

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      Science Policy Up Close

      John H. Marburger, III

      In a career that included Presidential Science Advisor to George W. Bush, John Marburger stood on the front line of battles that pulled science deep into the political arena. Science…

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      The Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty

      Robert P. Crease (Stony Brook University),Alfred Scharff Goldhaber (Stony Brook University)

      The fascinating story of how quantum mechanics went mainstream.

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      The Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty

      Robert P. Crease (Stony Brook University),Alfred Scharff Goldhaber (Stony Brook University)

      The fascinating story of how quantum mechanics went mainstream.

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      The Leak

      Robert P Crease

      How the discovery of a harmless leak of radiation sparked a media firestorm, political grandstanding, and fearmongering that closed a vital scientific facility. In 1997, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory…

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      The Leak

      Robert P Crease

      How the discovery of a harmless leak of radiation sparked a media firestorm, political grandstanding, and fearmongering that closed a vital scientific facility. In 1997, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory…

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      Philosophy of Physics: A new introduction

      Robert Crease (Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, New York, USA)

      This book examines several different issues that arise in physics to illustrate what philosophy of physics is about, what the different traditions reveal about physics, and the value of these…

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      The Leak Lib/E

      Robert P Crease

      How the discovery of a harmless leak of radiation sparked a media firestorm, political grandstanding, and fearmongering that closed a vital scientific facility. In 1997, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory…

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      J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Life

      the late Abraham Pais (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, Rockefeller University (Emeritus))

      The award-winning biographer of Albert Einstein now offers an illuminating portrait of another eminent colleague, J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the most charismatic and enigmatic figures of modern physics. 40…

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      The Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty

      Robert P Crease (Stony Brook University),Alfred Scharff Goldhaber (Stony Brook University)

      The fascinating story of how quantum mechanics went mainstream.

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      The Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty

      Robert P Crease (Stony Brook University),Alfred Scharff Goldhaber (Stony Brook University)

      The fascinating story of how quantum mechanics went mainstream.

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      Postphenomenology and Imaging: How to Read Technology

      This edited collection explores the distinctive contributions of postphenomenological perspectives toward imaging in science, medicine, and everyday life. With its original empirical investigations of imaging across a variety of fields…

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      Technoscience and Postphenomenology: The Manhattan Papers

      Friis and Crease illustrate the diversity of content and styles in postphenomenology, a burgeoning field that has attracted attention among scholars engaged in technology studies. Contributors to this edited collection…

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