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Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices:

Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna

by Maria Rentetzi

Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Biography of a Trafficking Material
  • 2. Designing (for) a New Scientific Discipline
  • 3. Gender, Science, and the City
  • 4. The Institute for Radium Research in Red Vienna
  • 5. From Cambridge to Vienna: The Scintillation Counter in Female Hands
  • 6. The Aftermath of the Cambridge-Vienna Controversy: Radioactivity and Politics in Vienna in the 1930s
  • 7. Marietta Blau on the Margins of Nuclear and Particle Physics
  • Bibliography
  • Media Index
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