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Science on the air : popularizers and personalities on radio and early television

Title: Science on the air : popularizers and personalities on radio and early television / Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette.
Author: La Follette, Marcel Chotkowski, 1944-
Publication: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

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Description

x, 314 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

This title transports readers to the early days of radio, when the new medium allowed innovative and optimistic scientists the opportunity to broadcast serious and dignified presentations over the airwaves. The book goes on to chronicle the work of these science pioneers on radio and television into the 1950s.

Subject

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-294) and index.

Contents

Tuxedos and microphones -- The radio nature league -- Syndicating science -- Cooperative ventures -- Shifting ground -- A twist of the dial -- Facts and fictionalizations -- Adventuring with scientists -- Broadcasting the voice of the atom -- Illusions of actuality -- Epilogue : entertaining lessons.

ISBN

9780226467597
0226467597

LCCN

2007049905

OCLC

ocn183392557
183392557
SCSB-1488065

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library