The Twentieth-century sciences ; studies in the biography of ideas / Essays by Erik H. Erikson [and others] Edited by Gerald Holton.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Erikson, Erik H. (Erik Homburger), 1902-1994
Holton, Gerald James
Language:English
Published: New York : Norton, [1972]
Subjects:
Science > History.
Social sciences > History.
Scientists > Biography.
Social scientists > Biography.
Research > History.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:xv, 527 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Autobiographic notes on the identity crisis, by E. H. Erikson
  • Tradition, ecology, and institution in the history of sociology, by E. Shils
  • On building social system theory: a personal history, by T. Parsons
  • Economics in a golden age: a personal memoir, by P. A. Samuelson
  • The continuity of genetics, by C. Stern
  • DNA, by G. S. Stent
  • Francis Crick, DNA, and the central dogma, by R. Olby
  • Fifty years of progress in structural chemistry and molecular biology, by L. Pauling
  • The history of polio research in the United States: appraisal and lessons, by S. Benison
  • Mach, Einstein, and the search for reality, by G. Holton
  • The roots of complementarity, by G. Holton
  • Scientific teams and scientific laboratories, by A. M. Weinberg
  • The Great Instauration of 1940: the organization of scientific research for war, by A. H. Dupree
  • My fight against team research, by R. R. Wilson
  • Computers as information-processing machines in modern science, by W. O. Baker.