Trajectories in the history and historiography of physics in the twentieth century

History of Science

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 151-177

  Staley, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1177/007327531305100202     Document Type: Article

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