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

Daily outline, Class 27 (4/25/00)

The film we saw, "The day after Trinity," is available in the Media Resources Center (Moffitt Library, 1st floor) under the call number Video/C 242.
 

Topics  Science and government  Government bureaus  Government patronage  Government support:  research grants  World War I (1914-1918)  The chemists' war  A wake-up call:  aeronautics  Ideology and practice:  Nazi Germany   World War II (1939-1945)

Names and terms      Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes  optical glass  nitrates  "Better living through chemistry"  National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (founded 1915)  Aryan physics  radar  penicillin  Manhattan Project  J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967)

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