Science in the early twentieth century : an encyclopedia / Jacob Darwin Hamblin.

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hamblin, Jacob Darwin
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, [2005], ©2005.
Series:ABC-CLIO's history of science series.
Subjects:
Science > History > 20th century > Encyclopedias.
Genre:
Encyclopedias.
Online Access:
Connect to: Table of contents - All users (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:xxxi, 399 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Variant Title:
Science in the early 20th century.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • A
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
  • Age of the Earth
  • Amino Acids
  • Anthropology
  • Antibiotics
  • Arrhenius, Svante
  • Artificial Elements
  • Astronomical Observatories
  • Astrophysics
  • Atomic Bomb
  • Atomic Energy Commission
  • Atomic Structure
  • B
  • Bateson, William
  • Becquerel, Henri
  • Big Bang
  • Biochemistry
  • Biometry
  • Birth Control
  • Bjerknes, Vilhelm
  • Boas, Franz
  • Bohr, Niels
  • Boltwood, Bertram
  • Bragg, William Henry
  • Brain Drain
  • C
  • Cancer
  • Carbon Dating
  • Cavendish Laboratory
  • Chadwick, James
  • Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan
  • Chemical Warfare
  • Cherenkov, Pavel
  • Chromosomes
  • Cloud Chamber
  • Cockcroft, John
  • Cold War
  • Colonialism
  • Compton, Arthur Holly
  • Computers
  • Conservation
  • Continental Drift
  • Cosmic Rays
  • Cosmology
  • Crime Detection
  • Curie, Marie
  • Cybernetics
  • Cyclotron
  • D
  • Davisson, Clinton
  • Debye, Peter
  • Determinism
  • DNA
  • E
  • Earth Structure
  • Ecology
  • Eddington, Arthur Stanley
  • Ehrlich, Paul
  • Einstein, Albert
  • Electronics
  • Elitism
  • Embryology
  • Endocrinology
  • Espionage
  • Eugenics
  • Evolution
  • Extraterrestrial Life
  • F
  • Federation of Atomic Scientists
  • Fermi, Enrico
  • Fission
  • Franck, James
  • Freud, Sigmund
  • G
  • Game Theory
  • Gamow, George
  • Genetics
  • Geology
  • Geophysics
  • Gödel, Kurt
  • Great Depression
  • Gutenberg, Beno
  • H
  • Haber, Fritz
  • Haeckel, Ernst
  • Hahn, Otto
  • Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson
  • Hale, George Ellery
  • Heisenberg, Werner
  • Hertzsprung, Ejnar
  • Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  • Hormones
  • Hubble, Edwin
  • Human Experimentation
  • I
  • Industry
  • Intelligence Testing
  • International Cooperation
  • International Research Council
  • J
  • Jeffreys, Harold
  • Johannsen, Wilhelm
  • Joliot, Frédéric, and Irène Joliot-Curie
  • Jung, Carl
  • Just, Ernest Everett
  • K
  • Kaiser Wilhelm Society
  • Kammerer, Paul
  • Kapteyn, Jacobus
  • Koch, Robert
  • Kurchatov, Igor
  • L
  • Lawrence, Ernest
  • Leakey, Louis
  • Leavitt, Henrietta Swan
  • Light
  • Lowell, Percival
  • Loyalty
  • Lysenko, Trofim
  • M
  • Manhattan Project
  • Marconi, Guglielmo
  • Marine Biology
  • Mathematics
  • McClintock, Barbara
  • Mead, Margaret
  • Medicine
  • Meitner, Lise
  • Mental Health
  • Mental Retardation
  • Meteorology
  • Microbiology
  • Millikan, Robert A.
  • Missing Link
  • Mohorovicic, Andrija
  • Morgan, Thomas Hunt
  • Mutation
  • N
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • National Bureau of Standards
  • National Science Foundation
  • Nationalism
  • Nazi Science
  • Nobel Prize
  • Nutrition
  • O
  • Oceanic Expeditions
  • Oceanography
  • Office of Naval Research
  • Oort, Jan Hendrik
  • Origin of Life
  • P
  • Patronage
  • Pavlov, Ivan
  • Peking Man
  • Penicillin
  • Pesticides
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Physics
  • Piaget, Jean
  • Pickering's Harem
  • Piltdown Hoax
  • Planck, Max
  • Polar Expeditions
  • Popper, Karl
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Psychology
  • Public Health
  • Q
  • Quantum Mechanics
  • Quantum Theory
  • R
  • Race
  • Radar
  • Radiation Protection
  • Radio Astronomy
  • Radioactivity
  • Raman, Chandrasekhara Venkata
  • Rediscovery of Mendel
  • Relativity
  • Religion
  • Richter Scale
  • Rockets
  • Royal Society of London
  • Russell, Bertrand
  • Rutherford, Ernest
  • S
  • Schrödinger, Erwin
  • Science Fiction
  • Scientism
  • Scopes Trial
  • Seismology
  • Shapley, Harlow
  • Simpson, George Gaylord
  • Skinner, Burrhus Frederic
  • Social Progress
  • Social Responsibility
  • Solvay Conferences
  • Soviet Science
  • Sverdrup, Harald
  • Szilard, Leo
  • T
  • Technocracy
  • Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre
  • Thomson, Joseph John
  • Turing, Alan
  • U
  • Uncertainty Principle
  • Uranium
  • Urey, Harold
  • V
  • Vavilov, Sergei
  • Venereal Disease
  • Von Laue, Max
  • Vygotsky, Lev
  • W
  • Wegener, Alfred
  • Women
  • World War I
  • World War II
  • Wright, Sewall
  • X
  • X-rays
  • Y
  • Yukawa, Hideki.