Solid State Insurrection

Discover how Solid State Insurrection argues that solid state physics was crucial to securing the vast social, political, and financial capital Cold War physics enjoyed in the twentieth century. Despite its prolific contributions to consumer and medical technology, solid state physics received less professional prestige and public attention than nuclear and particle physics. With this book, Joseph D. Martin offers a new perspective on the role of physics in American history and how its research sustained its cultural standing and policy influence long after the sheen of the Manhattan Project had faded.