
Globalizing Physics
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- Preface
- Introduction
- PART I: IUPAP Between the Two World Wars
- 1: Danielle Fauque and Robert Fox: IUPAP and the Interwar World of Science
- 2: Jaume Navarro: The "Happy Thirties"? Millikan's Troubled Presidency of IUPAP
- PART II: Reshaping IUPAP after World War II
- 3: Roberto Lalli: From Diplomacy to Physics and Back Again: The Changing Roles of IUPAP in the Second Half of the 20th Century
- 4: Joseph D. Martin: Drawing the Line between Pure and Applied Physics
- 5: Danielle Fauque and Brigitte Van Tiggelen: Under the ICSU Umbrella: The Joint Commission on Radioactivity (1947-1955) Between IUPAP and IUPAC
- 6: Josep Simon: Restoring Physics: IUPAP's Commission on Education, Signature Pedagogies, and the Inter-National Politics of Science in the 1960s
- 7: Connemara Doran: The Role of IUPAP in Shaping Metrological Practice: International Negotiation and Collaboration
- 8: Kenji Ito: Repairing a Scientific Network: The International Conference of Theoretical Physics in 1953 and the Rehabilitation of the Japanese Physics Community
- Part III: Physics, Diplomacy, and the Cold War
- 9: Climério Paulo da Silva Neto and Alexei Kojevnikov: Socialist Internationalism and Science Diplomacy Across the Iron Curtain: Geneva, Dubna, IUPAP
- 10: Barbara Hof: Particles, Purity, Politics: Expanding International Exchange in High Energy Physics during the Cold War
- 11: Danian Hu, Jinyan Liu, and Xiaodong Yin: China's Tortuous Path to IUPAP: An Enlightening Case of Chinese Science Diplomacy during the Cold War
- 12: Doubravka OlSáková: IUPAP, Cooperative Antagonism and the GDR
- 13: Daniele Cozzoli: Edoardo Amaldi and the Scientific Collaboration with the USSR
- 14: Luciana Vieira Souza da Silva: National Individuals and International Unions: Gleb Wataghin's Experience with IUPAP (1951-1959)
- 15: Simone Turchetti: The Only (Tense) Encounter of a Non-existent Relationship? NATO, IUPAP and the 1963 Travel Ban Controversy
- Appendix: National Membership and Fees, 1919-1947
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