EAN: 9783319180922

SPRINGERBRIEFS IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNO...

This book gives a concise history of biophysics in contemporary China  from about 1949 to 1976.
It outlines how a science specialty evolved from an ambiguous and amorphous field into a
fully-fledged academic discipline in the socio-institutional contexts of contemporary China.
The book relates how  while initially consisting of cell biologists  the Chinese biophysics
community redirected their disciplinary priorities toward rocket science in the late 1950s to
accommodate the national interests of the time. Biophysicists who had worked on biological
sounding rockets were drawn to the military sector and continued to contribute to human
spaceflight in post-Mao China. Besides the rocket-and-space missions which provided the
material context for biophysics to expand in the late 1950s and early 1960s  Chinese
biophysicists also created research and educational programs surrounding biophysics by
exploiting the institutional opportunities afforded by the policy emphasis on science's role to
drive modernization. The book explores and demonstrates the collective achievements and
struggles of Chinese biophysicists in building their scientific discipline.

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