The Neutron's Children : Nuclear Engineers and the Shaping of Identity
The Neutron's Children : Nuclear Engineers and the Shaping of Identity
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Author(s): Johnston, Sean F.
Johnston, Sean François
ISBN No.: 9780199692118
Pages: 344
Year: 201205
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 116.00
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (On Demand)

'The Neutron's Children is a piece of high quality research and scholarship which should be read by all those involved in the teaching and practice of nuclear engineering.'M.M.R Williams, Annals of Nuclear Energy'In this fascinating and well-researched volume.the author capably weaves together a great variety of material'Benjamin Wilson, Metascience, February 2013'The focus on working engineers rather than either scientists or managers distinguishes Johnson's account from the small library of books on the history of the atomic bomb and nuclear power. The Neutron's Children wil undoubtedly be the standard work on the professionalization of nuclear engineers for some time to come.'Audra J. Wolfe, Physics Today'The Neutron's Children is a welcome addition for specialists in the history of nuclear technology, as well as for anyone interested in postwar nuclear history.


'Russell Olwell, Technology and Culture'This is a masterful, very recommendable study on the building of nuclear expertise - not only since the catastrophes of Chernobyl and Fukushima a topic of prime importance to scientists and technologists, professionals, politicians, and in fact to all of us. Historiographically Johnston combines social and cultural history with labour and political history, successfully weaving in insights from science and technology studies and from a practice-orientedhistory of science and technology. His book will become a classic for all of these fields.'Klaus Hentschel, Historical Institute of the University of Stuttgart'I enthusiastically recommend this fascinating study of nuclear engineering, which documents its development from its diverse origins in secret laboratories in the United States, Britain, and Canada during the Second World War, through its vital transformation in the international political arena during the first postwar decade, and culminates later in its maturation as a discipline through the commercialization of nuclear power, each stage of whichentailed profound scientific, technical, institutional, educational, and sociopolitical consequences that affect our lives today.'Roger H. Stuewer, University of Minnesota'A fascinating account of how an entire industry developed from very sparse beginnings and, like all good histories, it offers lessons to be learned.'Geoff Vaughan, Physics World.


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