Trafficking materials and gendered experimental practices : radium research in early 20th century Vienna / Maria Rentetzi.

New York : Columbia University Press, [2008], ©2008.

xxiii, 279 pages ; 24 cm

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The biography of a trafficking material -- Designing (for) a new scientific discipline -- Gender, science, and the city -- The Institute for Radium Research in Red Vienna -- From Cambridge to Vienna -- The aftermath of the Cambridge-Vienna controversy -- Marietta Blau on the margins of nuclear and particle physics.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-279).