The Squares US Physical and Engineering Scientists in the Long 1970s

When ungroovy scientists did groovy science: how non-activist scientists and engineers adapted their work to a rapidly changing social and political landscape. In The Squares, Cyrus Mody shows how, between the late 1960s and the early 1980s, some scientists and engineers who did not consider themse...

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Main Author: Mody, Cyrus C. M. (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2022
Series:Inside Technology
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