Ebook: Changing Landscapes of Nuclear Physics: A Scientometric Study on the Social and Cognitive Position of German-Speaking Emigrants Within the Nuclear Physics Community, 1921–1947

Nuclear physics between 1921 and 1947 shaped more than any other science thepolitical landscape of our century and the public opinion on physical research. Using quantitative scientometric methods, a new branch in the history of science, the author focuses on the developments of nuclear physics in these formative years paying special attention to theimpact of German emigrants on the evolution of the field as a cognitive and social unity. The book is based on a thorough analysis of various citation analyses thus producing results that should be more replicable and more objective. The scientometric techniques should complement the more qualitative approach usually applied in historical writing. This makes the text an interesting study also for the historian in general.

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Nuclear physics between 1921 and 1947 shaped more than any other science thepolitical landscape of our century and the public opinion on physical research. Using quantitative scientometric methods, a new branch in the history of science, the author focuses on the developments of nuclear physics in these formative years paying special attention to theimpact of German emigrants on the evolution of the field as a cognitive and social unity. The book is based on a thorough analysis of various citation analyses thus producing results that should be more replicable and more objective. The scientometric techniques should complement the more qualitative approach usually applied in historical writing. This makes the text an interesting study also for the historian in general.

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Nuclear physics between 1921 and 1947 shaped more than any other science thepolitical landscape of our century and the public opinion on physical research. Using quantitative scientometric methods, a new branch in the history of science, the author focuses on the developments of nuclear physics in these formative years paying special attention to theimpact of German emigrants on the evolution of the field as a cognitive and social unity. The book is based on a thorough analysis of various citation analyses thus producing results that should be more replicable and more objective. The scientometric techniques should complement the more qualitative approach usually applied in historical writing. This makes the text an interesting study also for the historian in general.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-V
General Preface....Pages 1-7
Introduction: The Effects of Scientific Emigration: Special Methodological Questions....Pages 8-13
Method....Pages 14-22
Data Base and Preliminary Descriptive Analyses....Pages 23-28
Emigrants as Literary Producers in Nuclear Physics....Pages 29-47
Recognizing Emigrants’ Scientific Achievement: Temporal Order, Social Stratification, and Type of Journal....Pages 48-62
Simple Ranking by Citation Counts....Pages 63-66
After the Quantum Revolution: Nuclei, Atoms, and Molecules 1926–1930....Pages 67-103
Nuclear Physics in a Revolutionary Phase: From the ‘Annus Mirabilis’ 1932 to Fermi’s Pioneering Discovery....Pages 104-139
The Fate of A ‘Normal’ Science in 1941: The Public Role of the Nuclear Researcher Under Attack....Pages 140-173
The Failure to Return to Normality: Nuclear Physics as a Benefactor of, and Debtor to, Politics....Pages 174-193
Educational and Institutional Background of Emigrant Nuclear Physicists....Pages 194-228
Physical Genealogies: Group Biography of Emigrant Atomic and Nuclear Physicists in Institutional Context....Pages 229-240
Back Matter....Pages 241-258

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Nuclear physics between 1921 and 1947 shaped more than any other science thepolitical landscape of our century and the public opinion on physical research. Using quantitative scientometric methods, a new branch in the history of science, the author focuses on the developments of nuclear physics in these formative years paying special attention to theimpact of German emigrants on the evolution of the field as a cognitive and social unity. The book is based on a thorough analysis of various citation analyses thus producing results that should be more replicable and more objective. The scientometric techniques should complement the more qualitative approach usually applied in historical writing. This makes the text an interesting study also for the historian in general.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-V
General Preface....Pages 1-7
Introduction: The Effects of Scientific Emigration: Special Methodological Questions....Pages 8-13
Method....Pages 14-22
Data Base and Preliminary Descriptive Analyses....Pages 23-28
Emigrants as Literary Producers in Nuclear Physics....Pages 29-47
Recognizing Emigrants’ Scientific Achievement: Temporal Order, Social Stratification, and Type of Journal....Pages 48-62
Simple Ranking by Citation Counts....Pages 63-66
After the Quantum Revolution: Nuclei, Atoms, and Molecules 1926–1930....Pages 67-103
Nuclear Physics in a Revolutionary Phase: From the ‘Annus Mirabilis’ 1932 to Fermi’s Pioneering Discovery....Pages 104-139
The Fate of A ‘Normal’ Science in 1941: The Public Role of the Nuclear Researcher Under Attack....Pages 140-173
The Failure to Return to Normality: Nuclear Physics as a Benefactor of, and Debtor to, Politics....Pages 174-193
Educational and Institutional Background of Emigrant Nuclear Physicists....Pages 194-228
Physical Genealogies: Group Biography of Emigrant Atomic and Nuclear Physicists in Institutional Context....Pages 229-240
Back Matter....Pages 241-258
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