Weart, Spencer

Weart, Spencer R. 1988. Nuclear Fear A History of Images. Cambridge Harvard University Press. 

Weart, Spencer. "The Physics Business in America, 19191940 A Statistical Reconnaissance." In The Sciences in the American Context New Perspectives. Ed. Nathan Reingold. Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979. Pp. 295358. 

On chairs of theoretical physics in Europe at this time, see Christa Jungnickel and Russell McCormmach, Intellectual Mastery of Nature Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein, 2 vols., (Chicago University of Chicago Press. 1986) II and Paul Forman, John Heilbron, and Spencer Weart, eds., Physics ca. 1900 V,... 

Forman, Paul, John Heilbron, and Spencer Weart, eds. Physics ca. 1900. V. Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences. Princeton Princeton University Press, 1975. 

More directly, solid state physics contributed to the emergence of materials science, because of one of its foci. Spencer Weart identified three pillars on which solid state physics was erected First, X-ray diffraction techniques provided precise atomic picture of solids second, quantum mechanics provided the theoretical foundations for the description of solids and the third, more subtle pillar was the attempt to discriminate between properties depending on the idealized crystal pattern and properties dependent on accidents of either the inner arrangement or the surface of the solid. [13] This focus on structure-sensitive-properties can be seen as the main investigative pathway, to resume Frederic L. Holmes s concept, which lead to materials science. 

Robert Oppenheimer Letters and Recollections by Alice Kimball Smith and Charles Weiner, copyright 1980 by Alice Kimball Smith and Charles Weiner. Reprinted by permission of Harvard University Press also reprinted by permission of Spencer R. Weart at the American Institute of Physics and for quotes from the Bridgeman Papers, Harvard University Archives. 

Leo Szilard His Version of the Facts by Spencer R. Weart and Gertrude Weiss Szilard, copyright 1978. Reprinted by permission of the MIT Press. 

Spencer R. Weart, Nuclear Fear, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London. 198S. 

The best studies on this theme are Boyer, By the Bomb s Early Light Winkler, Life Under a Cloud and Spencer R. Weart, Nuclear Fear A History of Images (Cambridge Harvard University Press, 1968). 

Weart, 1976. Spencer Weart. The Rise of Prostituted hysics Nature 262 13-17. 

Hoddeson Lilian, Ernst Braun, Jurgen Teichman, and Spencer Weart (eds) (1992) Out of the Crystal Maze. Chapters Grom the History of Sohd State Physics, Oxford, Oxford University Press. 

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