The French connection: The Joliot‐curies and nuclear research in Paris, 1925–1933
1997; Routledge; Volume: 13; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/07341519708581914
ISSN1477-2620
Autores Tópico(s)Medical History and Research
ResumoAbstract Heirs to Marie Curie and her three decades’ work in radioactivity, the Joliot‐Curies typically represent the French connection in interwar nuclear physics. Yet their work is usually seen in terms of a heavily retrospective and linear history of nuclear physics, rather than as something to be understood in terms of a specific material and social setting and a specific set of experimental and conceptual practices. Exploring the complexities of instrumentation, technique, social organisation, and changing disciplinary boundaries, this paper aims to establish a broader context in which the Joliots’ work in the early 1930s and the work of the Laboratoire Curie more generally can be understood.
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