Low Science and the Building of a New Japan

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-4039-7692-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 259 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Palgrave History Collection

This book highlights the importance of individuals in the shaping of postwar Japan by providing an historical account of how physicists constituted an influential elite. An history of science perspective provides insight into their role, helping us to understand the hybrid identity of Japanese scientists, and how they reinvented not only themselves, but also Japan. The book is special in that it uses the history of science to deal with issues relating to Japanese identity, and how it was transformed in the decades after Japan's defeat. It explores the lives and work of seven physicists, two of whom were Nobel prize winners. It makes use of little-known Occupation period documents, personal papers of physicists, and Japanese language source material.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Low, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Shaping of the Japanese Physicist Mobilising Science in World War II: Yoshio Nishina Remobilising Science and Rebuilding Japan: Yoshio Nishina The Social Spokesperson: Shoichi Sakata and Mituo Taketani The Expert: Hideki Yukawa and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga The Technocrat: Ryokichi Sagane The International Scientist: Satio Hayakawa Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

MORRIS LOW is Senior Lecturer in Asian Studies and Director of the Asian Studies Centre at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is co-author of (CUP, 1999) and co-editor of (Routledge Curzon, 2003) and editor of a three-volume anthology (Routledge, 2001).