
By Morris Low
This ebook highlights the significance of people within the shaping of postwar Japan by way of supplying an historic account of ways physicists constituted an influential elite. A background of technological know-how viewpoint offers perception into their position, aiding us to appreciate the hybrid identification of eastern scientists, and the way they reinvented not just themselves, but in addition Japan within the a long time after its defeat. Low explores the lives and paintings of 7 physicists, of whom have been Nobel prize winners, and uses little-known career interval files, own papers of physicists, and jap language resource fabric.
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