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Physics in Perspective Pub Date : 2024-02-23 DOI: 10.1007/s00016-024-00307-8

Robert L. Naylor, Joseph D. Martin, Richard Staley

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Dreams of Declassification: The Early Cold War Quest for Nuclear Knowledge in The Netherlands and Norway 解密之梦:冷战早期在荷兰和挪威对核知识的探索

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Physics in Perspective Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1007/s00016-023-00305-2

Machiel Kleemans

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Film Review Revenge of the Nerds 电影评论《复仇的书呆子》（Revenge of the Nerds

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Physics in Perspective Pub Date : 2023-10-24 DOI: 10.1007/s00016-023-00304-3

Coreen McGuire, Joseph D. Martin

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Secret Science 秘密科学

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Physics in Perspective Pub Date : 2023-10-05 DOI: 10.1007/s00016-023-00303-4

Joseph D. Martin, Robert L. Naylor, Richard Staley

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JASON in Europe: Contestation and the Physicists’ Dilemma about the Vietnam War 欧洲的 JASON：关于越南战争的争论和物理学家的两难选择

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Physics in Perspective Pub Date : 2023-10-05 DOI: 10.1007/s00016-023-00302-5

Gerardo Ienna, Simone Turchetti

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Calculating and Mapping the Disposition of Future Heavens: Ferdinand Verbiest’s Weather Forecasting and Its Termination During the Qing Court (1669–1680) 计算和绘制未来天象：费迪南德-韦尔比斯特的天气预报及其在清廷的终止（1669-1680 年）

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Physics in Perspective Pub Date : 2023-09-10 DOI: 10.1007/s00016-023-00301-6

Weixing Niu, Yejing Ge, Haohao Zhu

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Before and After the Fall: Geography of Soviet and Post-Soviet Physics Surveyed via Leading Journals 苏联解体前后:主要期刊对苏联和后苏联物理地理学的调查

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Physics in Perspective Pub Date : 2023-05-25 DOI: 10.1007/s00016-023-00298-y

Ivan Sterligov

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Between Old and New Interpretations of Life: Animal Electricity at the First Congress of Italian Scientists 在生命的新旧解释之间:意大利科学家第一次会议上的动物电

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Physics in Perspective Pub Date : 2023-04-10 DOI: 10.1007/s00016-023-00296-0

Roberto Mantovani

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Vital Physics 重要的物理

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Physics in Perspective Pub Date : 2023-03-21 DOI: 10.1007/s00016-023-00297-z

Robert L. Naylor, Joseph D. Martin, Richard Staley

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Small Physics 小的物理

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Physics in Perspective Pub Date : 2023-01-17 DOI: 10.1007/s00016-022-00295-7

Joseph D. Martin, Robert L. Naylor, Richard Staley

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