Exploring a black box: Cross-national study of visit effects on visitors to large physics research centers in Europe

Science Communication

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 506-533

  Neresini, Federico ^a   Dimopoulos, Kostas ^b   Kallfass, Monika ^c   Peters, Hans Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PELOPONNESE   (Greece)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cross national study; Public visits; Research center; Short term learning effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 65749095906     PISSN: 10755470     EISSN: 15528545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1075547009332650     Document Type: Article

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