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After the Breakthrough
The Emergence of High-Temperature Superconductivity as a Research Field
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The discovery of high-temperature superconductivity was hailed as a major scientific breakthrough, inducing an unprecedented excitement and expectation among the scientific community and in the international press. This book sets this research breakthrough in context, and reconstructs the history of the discovery. The authors analyse the emergence of this new research field and the way its development was shaped by scientists and science policy-makers. They also examine the various settings in which the research was undertaken, as well as considering the scientific backgrounds and motivations of researchers who entered the field following the original discovery. The industrial connection and the general belief in promises of future applications were important elements in strategies devised to obtain funding. A remarkable factor in this process was the media's role. The sustained attention that followed the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity resulted in it being seen as the symbol of a new technological frontier.
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Cambridge University Press; January 1997
222 pages; ISBN 9780511821790
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222 pages; ISBN 9780511821790
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Subject categories
- Academic > Physics > Electricity and magnetism > Semiconductors
- Academic > Physics > Electricity and magnetism > Superconductivity
- Academic > Physics > Electricity and magnetism > High temperature superconductors
- Academic > Physics > General > Physics; Tables
- Academic > Physics > Electricity
- Academic > Physics > Physics; Philosophy
- Science > Physics
- Science > History
- Technology > Superconductors & Superconductivity
ISBNs
0511821794
9780511821790
9780521561242

