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Nye, Mary Jo was born on December 5, 1944 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Daughter of Joe Allen and Mildred (Heath) Mann.
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Today's vast multinational scientific monoliths bear little resemblance to the modest laboratories of the early nineteenth century. Yet early in the nineteenth century--when heat and electricity were still counted among the elements--changes were already under way that would revolutionize chemistry and physics into the "big science" of the late twentieth century, expanding tiny, makeshift laboratories into bustling research institutes and replacing the scientific amateurs and generalist savants of the early Victorian era with the professional specialists of contemporary physical science. Mary Jo Nye traces the social and intellectual history of the physical sciences from the early 1800s to the beginning of the Second World War, examining the sweeping transformation of scientific institutions and professions during the period and the groundbreaking experiments that fueled that change, from the earliest investigations of molecular chemistry and field dynamics to the revolutionary breakthroughs of quantum mechanics, relativity theory, and nuclear science.
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( Today's vast multinational scientific monoliths bear l...)
Today's vast multinational scientific monoliths bear little resemblance to the modest laboratories of the early nineteenth century. Yet early in the nineteenth century--when heat and electricity were still counted among the elements--changes were already under way that would revolutionize chemistry and physics into the "big science" of the late twentieth century, expanding tiny, makeshift laboratories into bustling research institutes and replacing the scientific amateurs and generalist savants of the early Victorian era with the professional specialists of contemporary physical science. Mary Jo Nye traces the social and intellectual history of the physical sciences from the early 1800s to the beginning of the Second World War, examining the sweeping transformation of scientific institutions and professions during the period and the groundbreaking experiments that fueled that change, from the earliest investigations of molecular chemistry and field dynamics to the revolutionary breakthroughs of quantum mechanics, relativity theory, and nuclear science.
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Hardcover: 201 pages Publisher: American Elsevier (1972) Language: English ISBN-10: 0444195963 ISBN-13: 978-0444195968
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How did chemistry and physics acquire their separate identities, and are they on their way to losing them again? Mary Jo Nye has written a graceful account of the historical demarcation of chemistry from physics and subsequent reconvergences of the two, from Lavoisier and Dalton in the late eighteenth century to Robinson, Ingold, and Pauling in the mid-twentieth century. Using the notion of a disciplinary "identity" analogous to ethnic or national identity, Nye develops a theory of the nature of disciplinary structure and change. She discusses the distinctive character of chemical language and theories and the role of national styles and traditions in building a scientific discipline. Anyone interested in the history of scientific thought will enjoy pondering with her the question of whether chemists of the mid-twentieth century suspected chemical explanation had been reduced to physical laws, just as Newtonian mechanical philosophers had envisioned in the eighteenth century.
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Nye, Mary Jo was born on December 5, 1944 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Daughter of Joe Allen and Mildred (Heath) Mann.
Student, Vanderbilt University, 1962-1964; Bachelor, University of Wisconsin, 1964-1965; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, 1965-1970.
From assistant professor to associate professor then professor University Oklahoma, 1970-1994. Professor humanities and history Oregon State University, Corvallis, since 1994. Associate fellow center for History Study Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1989-1990.
Member school history studies Institute Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 1981-1982. Visiting professor Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1988.
( How did chemistry and physics acquire their separate id...)
( Today's vast multinational scientific monoliths bear l...)
( Today's vast multinational scientific monoliths bear l...)
(Hardcover: 201 pages Publisher: American Elsevier (1972) ...)
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Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member History Science Society (president 1988-1989), American History Association, International Union of History and Philosphy of Science (United States national committee 1986-1989), International Union of History and Philosophy of Science (2d vice president division history and science since 1993), Phi Beta Kappa. F C.
Married Robert Allen Nye, February 17, 1968. 1 child, Lesley Noel.