Center on the Periphery: Historical Aspects of 20th-Century Swedish Physics

Lindqvist, Svante, ed. The chapters in this volume do not claim to give a full account of the history of Swedish physics in the twentieth century. Rather, the intention has been to collect in one volume as many of the historians working in the field as possible. One aim is to make the Swedish research internationally accessible: the articles give a sample of the perspectives, problems, and interests of today's Swedish historians of science, and the bibliography is intended to make the literature in the field known and accessible to foreign scholars. However, the main purpose of this collection is to stake out a new area for Swedish history of science, to create a territory for a new generation of Swedish historians of science. The territory has four relatively arbitrary markers—the four themes under which the chapters have been classified: cultural and social histories of science the institutions and politics of big science the international networks of communication science as