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Subject(s)

• Nanoscience [Browse]
• Nanotechnology [Browse]

Contributor

• Shinn, Terry [Browse]

Author

• Shinn, Terry [Browse]

Summary note

Anne Marcovich and Terry Shinn present key historical moments in the birth and evolution of nanoscience in the last 30 years. The book identifies key historical moments and episodes in the birth and evolution of nanoscience, discusses the novel repertory of epistemological concerns of practitioners, and signals sociological propensities.

Notes

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 14, 2014).

Language note

English

Contents

• Mainstays of nanoscale research
• Worlds of nanophysics
• The scale of life?
• Epistemological frames and practices
• The role of combinatorials in structuring NSR cognitive trajectories
• Which disciplinarity for nanoscale research?

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ISBN

0-19-178292-0

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