Invited Session: Pais Prize Session: Physics at the Intersection of History, Technology and Society

Presentations

• Abraham Pais Prize Lecture: Understanding the Impacts of Global Warming: a History

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  March 4, 2015, 9:00 AM – March 4, 2015, 9:36 AM

  Authors

  • Spencer Weart

    American Institute of Physics

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• Burnt by the Sun: Jack Kilby and the `70s Solar Boom

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  March 4, 2015, 9:36 AM – March 4, 2015, 10:12 AM

  Authors

  • Cyrus Mody

    Rice University

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• Optimistic Dangers: Views of Radium Therapy During the American Radium Craze

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  March 4, 2015, 10:12 AM – March 4, 2015, 10:48 AM

  Authors

  • Aimee Slaughter

    Los Alamos Historical Society

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• To Rule the Waves: Cable Telegraphy and the Making of ``Maxwell's Equations''

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  March 4, 2015, 10:48 AM – March 4, 2015, 11:24 AM

  Authors

  • Bruce Hunt

    University of Texas

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• The Social Appropriation of Quantum Language and Imagery

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  March 4, 2015, 11:24 AM – March 4, 2015, 12:00 PM

  Authors

  • Robert Crease

    Stony Brook University

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