The Squares
US Physical and Engineering Scientists in the Long 1970s
- Paperback
422 pages
- Release Date
30 August 2022
Summary
In The Squares, Cyrus Mody shows how, between the late 1960s and the early 1980s, some scientists and engineers who did not consider themselves activists, New Leftists, or members of the counterculture accommodated their work to the rapidly changing social and political landscape of the time. These “square scientists,” Mody shows, began to do many of the things that the counterculture urged—turn away from military-industrial funding, become more interdisciplinary, and focus their res…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262543613 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262543613 |
| Author: | Cyrus C.M. Mody |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 422 |
| Release Date: | 30 August 2022 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Inside Technology |
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“In The Squares, historian Cyrus Mody examines what it was like to be an ordinary, or ‘square,’ physicist during the 1970s. Although that decade is typically seen as being more culturally conservative than the flower-power ’60s, Mody demonstrates that it was an era in which even many physicists who self-identified as apolitical began working on societally engaged research topics such as solar power… The squares are fortunate that a person of Mody’s talents has taken them up.”
—Physics Today
“Essential and illuminating reading for historians of the technosciences, the military-industrial-academic complex, the silent majority, and postboom economies.”
—Technology and Culture
About The Author
Cyrus C.M. Mody
Cyrus C. M. Mody is Professor of the History of Science, Technology, and Innovation and Director of the Maastricht University Science, Technology and Society Studies program. He is the author of Instrumental Community- Probe Microscopy and the Path to Nanotechnology and The Long Arm of Moore’s Law- Microelectronics and American Science.
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