History 30B, Spring 2000 Science and Society since the Scientific Revolution

Daily outline, Class 26 (4/20/00)

Topics  Quanta (continued) The Copenhagen Interpretation  New foundations for practice  Interlude:  European scientific establishments  Science in the United States  Early stages  Innovations of the later 19th century  Increasing status  Science in Japan  The conflicts of the Tokugawa period  Accelerating change

Names and terms      Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976)  Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961)  Louis de Broglie (1892-1987)  Max Born (1882-1970)  uncertainty relations  American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, founded 1848)  land-grant colleges  Morrill Act (1862)  Eastman Kodak  General Electric  DuPont  T.H. Morgan  Tokugawa period (ca. 1600-1868)  Meiji period (1868-1912)  Kitasato Shibasaburo (1852-1931)  Institute of Infectious Diseases (founded 1893)

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