The Squares
By Cyrus C. M. Mody
By Cyrus C. M. Mody
By Cyrus C. M. Mody
By Cyrus C. M. Mody
Part of Inside Technology
Part of Inside Technology
Category: Science & Technology | 20th Century U.S. History
Category: Science & Technology | 20th Century U.S. History
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$65.00
Jul 12, 2022 | ISBN 9780262543613
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Jul 12, 2022 | ISBN 9780262369350
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Praise
Included in Physics Today‘s “Books and more that stood out in 2022” list
“In The Squares, historian Cyrus Mody examines what it was like to be an ordinary, or ‘square,’ physicist during the 1970s. Although that decade is typically seen as being more culturally conservative than the flower-power ’60s, Mody demonstrates that it was an era in which even many physicists who self-identified as apolitical began working on societally engaged research topics such as solar power… The squares are fortunate that a person of Mody’s talents has taken them up.”
—Physics Today
“Essential and illuminating reading for historians of the technosciences, the military-industrial-academic complex, the silent majority, and postboom economies.”
—Technology and Culture
Table Of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments ix
List of Figures xiii
1 Society in Disarray? Professional Societies and Physics in the 1970s 1
2 Turn On, Tune In, Start Up: The Experimental Life in Santa Barbara 53
3 A Federation of Bull Sessions: Interdisciplinarity at Stanford 93
4 Nothing Fails like Success: From Moon to Earth at NASA 135
5 Mistaking the Sunset for the Dawn: Jack Kilby’s Solar Boom and Bust 177
6 An End to Exceptionalism: Philips, Signetics, and Global Silicon Valley 219
7 Engineering and Applied Physics in the Age of Fracture 259
Notes 313
Index 389
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