'Modernists with a vengeance': Changing cultures of theory in nuclear science, 1920-1930

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B - Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 339-367

  Hughes, Jeff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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