Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna

by Maria Rentetzi (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $103.32

  Surveys the materials and experimental practices of radioactivity research in early twentieth century Vienna, focusing on radioactive materials, instruments, women's work in physics, and gendered skills. This title shows how experimental cultures in radioactivity are constructed and reshaped by politics as well as scientists of different genders.