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  1. Sarah Robey is Assistant Professor in the History of Energy at Idaho State University. Her research focuses on nuclear science and American culture in the early Cold War.

  2. Cyrus C. M. Mody is Professor and Chair in the History of Science, Technology, and Innovation at Maastricht University. He is the author of The Long Arm of Moore’s Law: Microelectronics and American Science (MIT Press, 2017) and Instrumental Community: Probe Microscopy and the Path to Nanotechnology (MIT Press, 2011).

  3. Deepanwita Dasgupta is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso. Her research interests are in philosophy of science and the cognitive/cultural studies of science, with a focus on the non-Western contexts of scientific practice.

References

  1. For example, Nathan Ensmenger, “The Dirty Parts of the Computing World,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, April 11, 2016, https://thebulletin.org/dirty-parts-computing-world9312.

  2. All profiled in Christophe Lécuyer, Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930–1970 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005).

  3. Ronald Giere, Explaining Science: A Cognitive Approach (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988); Nancy Nersessian, “How Do Scientists Think?: Capturing the Dynamics of Conceptual Change in Science,” in Cognitive Models of Science, Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science 15, ed. Ronald. N. Giere, 3–45 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992).

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Book Reviews. Phys. Perspect. 20, 305–313 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-018-0225-z

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