Eva Hemmungs Wirtén
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, by tracing a career that spans two centuries and a world war, provides an innovative and historically grounded account of how modern science emerges in tandem with celebrity culture under the influence of intellectual property in a dawning age of information. She explores the emergence of the Curie persona, the information culture of the period that shaped its development, and the strategies Curie used to manage and exploit...