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Nuclear physics in Europe : present state and outlook.
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ISBN: 2903148368 Year: 1984 Publisher: Strasbourg : European Science Foundation,

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ESF communications : journal of the European Science Foundation.
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ISSN: 0293082X Publisher: Strasbourg : ESF,

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The community of science in Europe : preconditions for research effectiveness in European Community countries
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ISBN: 9780566056321 0566056321 Year: 1988 Publisher: Aldershot Brookfield; Sydney Gower

1910 : the emancipation of dissonance
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ISBN: 0520200438 0585184313 9780520200432 0520341090 Year: 1996 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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The year 1910 marks an astonishing, and largely unrecognized, juncture in Western history. As the spectacle of Halley's Comet pierces the skies of Europe, traditional harmonies fade away and dissonance dawns. In this brilliantly conceived work, Thomas Harrison defines 1910 through a perceptive interdisciplinary analysis of the creative works produced during or close to that year, most of them as unsettling as the comet itself: the atonal music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern; the distraught poetry of Trakl, Campana, and Rilke; the militant philosophy of Lukacs, Simmel, and Buber; the abstract or subjectivist paintings of Kandinsky, Schiele, and Kokoschka. All are matched by historical and existential turbulence: epidemics of suicide and madness and the plight of Italians and Jews in the empire of Austria-Hungary. Unlike previous cultural studies of the pre-World War I era, this book locates the most significant traits of the period in Middle rather than Western Europe and in expressionism rather than in more celebrated developments of the avant-garde. Expressionism's violent extremes, Harrison argues provocatively, were the explosions of a last, desperate attempt by the intelligentsia to defend some of the most venerable presuppositions of Western culture. Among these were the idea of human subjectivity as the measure of all things, the habit of thinking in terms of antitheses, and belief in the universality of the understanding. Ultimately, Harrison claims, this ideological desperation was not only a spiritual prelude to World War I but also a prophetic, unheeded critique.


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A Well-Ordered Thing : Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table, Revised Edition
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ISBN: 0691184429 Year: 2018 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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Dmitrii Mendeleev (1834-1907) is a name we recognize, but perhaps only as the creator of the periodic table of elements. Generally, little else has been known about him. A Well-Ordered Thing is an authoritative biography of Mendeleev that draws a multifaceted portrait of his life for the first time. As Michael Gordin reveals, Mendeleev was not only a luminary in the history of science, he was also an astonishingly wide-ranging political and cultural figure. From his attack on Spiritualism to his failed voyage to the Arctic and his near-mythical hot-air balloon trip, this is the story of an extraordinary maverick. The ideals that shaped his work outside science also led Mendeleev to order the elements and, eventually, to engineer one of the most fascinating scientific developments of the nineteenth century. A Well-Ordered Thing is a classic work that tells the story of one of the world's most important minds.

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Chemists --- Mendeleyev, Dmitry Ivanovich, --- Russia --- Intellectual life --- Chemical workers --- Physical scientists --- Менделеев, Дмитрий Иванович, --- Mendeleev, Dmitriĭ Ivanovich, --- Mendelejeff, D. I., --- Mendeleeff, D. I., --- Менделѣев, Дмитрій Иванович, --- Mendeli︠e︡ev, Dmitrīĭ Ivanovich, --- Mendělejev, Dimitrij Ivanovicč, --- Менделѣѣв, Д. И., --- Mendeli︠e︡i︠e︡v, D. I., --- Mendeljejev, Dmitrij Ivanovicč, --- Mendeleev, Dmitri Ivanovich, --- Mendeleyev, D. I., --- Mendeleev, D. I. --- Mendeleyev, Dmitri Ivanovich, --- Mendelejew, D. J., --- Mendelejeff, D., --- Менделѣев, Д. --- Mendeli︠e︡ev, D. --- Mendeléiev, Dimitri I., --- Mendelejew, Dmitri Iwanowitsch, --- Mendelejew, D. I. --- Soviet Union --- Academy of Sciences. --- Dmitrii Mendeleev. --- European science. --- Great Reforms. --- Imperial Academy of Sciences. --- Imperial Petersburg. --- Imperial Russia. --- Imperial systems. --- Mediumistic Phenomena. --- Russia. --- Russian Chemical Society. --- Russian Physical Society. --- Russian Spiritualism. --- Russian chauvinism. --- Russian culture. --- Russian education. --- Russian stability. --- Spiritualism. --- St. Petersburg University. --- St. Petersburg. --- autocracy. --- bureaucracy. --- chemistry. --- classification. --- cultural conflict. --- educational reform. --- gas laws. --- general examinations. --- history of science. --- individual innovation. --- liberalism. --- maverick. --- periodic law. --- periodic system. --- periodic table. --- physics. --- religion. --- rule of law. --- scientific societies. --- seances. --- student rebellion. --- superstition. --- teaching. --- technology. --- tsarist regime. --- universality.

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