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G. A. Bremner is Senior Lecturer in Architectural History at the University of Edinburgh. His books include Imperial Gothic: Religious Architecture and High Anglican Culture in the British Empire, c. 1840–1870 (Yale University Press, 2013), and as editor, Architecture and Urbanism in the British Empire (Oxford University Press, 2016).
Gary J. Weisel is Professor of Physics at Penn State Altoona.
John Campbell is a retired physicist from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and is the author of Rutherford’s Ancestors (AAS, 1996), Rutherford: Scientist Supreme (AAS, 1999), and www.rutherford.org.nz.
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).
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Book Reviews. Phys. Perspect. 20, 370–384 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-018-0230-2
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