| Science at the American Frontier: A Biography of DeWitt Bristol Brace Contributor(s): Cahan, David (Author), Rudd, M. Eugene (Author) |
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ISBN: 0803215088 ISBN-13: 9780803215085 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $57.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2000 Annotation: Science at the American Frontier is both a biography of American physicist DeWitt Bristol Brace (1859-1905) and a study of the processes by which scientific knowledge and associated instrumentation were transferred from Europe to the United States and from the east coast to the American frontier. The authors trace Brace's first-class scientific education in Boston, Baltimore, and Berlin, and they follow his career as he founded and built a department of physics at the University of Nebraska and pursued a research program at that institution. In doing so, they show how Brace's career brought him into the vanguard of the American scientific community, and they illuminate the developmental process of departments of science at the newly founded land-grant colleges. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 99049720 |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.18" W x 9.24" (1.09 lbs) 244 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 |
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| Publisher Description: Science at the American Frontier is both a biography of American physicist DeWitt Bristol Brace (1859-1905) and a study of the processes by which scientific knowledge and associated instrumentation were transferred from Europe to the United States and from the east coast to the American frontier. The authors trace Brace's first-class scientific education in Boston, Baltimore, and Berlin, and they follow his career as he founded and built a department of physics at the University of Nebraska and pursued a research program at that institution. In doing so, they show how Brace's career brought him into the vanguard of the American scientific community, and they illuminate the developmental process of departments of science at the newly founded land-grant colleges. |
