A Scientometric Study on the Social and Cognitive Position of German-Speaking Emigrants Within the Nuclear Physics Community, 1921¿1947
Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 406 g
ISBN: 978-3-540-56480-5
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
other science thepolitical landscape of our century and the
public opinion on physical research. Using quantitative
scientometric methods, a new branch in the history of
science, the author focuses on the developments of nuclear
physics in these formative years paying special attention to
theimpact of German emigrants on the evolution of the field
as a cognitive and social unity. The book is based on a
thorough analysis of various citation analyses thus
producing results that should be more replicable and more
objective. The scientometric techniques should complement
the more qualitative approach usually applied in historical
writing. This makes the text an interesting study also for
the historian in general.
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General Preface.- Introduction: The Effects of Scientific Emigration: Special Methodological Questions.- A. Method.- B. Data Base and Preliminary Descriptive Analyses.- C. Emigrants as Literary Producers in Nuclear Physics.- D. Recognizing Emigrants’ Scientific Achievement: Temporal Order, Social Stratification, and Type of Journal.- E. Disciplinary Landscapes in Nuclear Physics: Social and Cognitive.- I. Simple Ranking by Citation Counts.- II. After the Quantum Revolution: Nuclei, Atoms, and Molecules 1926–1930.- III. Nuclear Physics in Its Revolutionary Phase: From the ‘Annus Mirabilis’ 1932 to Fermi’s Pioneering Discovery.- IV. The Fate of a ‘Normal’ Science in 1941: The Public Role of the Nuclear Researcher Under Attack.- V. The Failure to Return to Normality: Nuclear Physics as a Benefactor of, and Debtor to, Politics.- F. Biography in Context.- I. Educational and Institutional Background of Emigrant Nuclear Physicists.- II. Physical Genealogies: Group Biography of Emigrant Atomic and Nuclear Physicists in Institutional Context.- References.
