No Boundaries: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS VIGNETTES - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252072030 ISBN 13: 9780252072031

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2004

Synopsis

Like any great university, the University of Illinois owes its prominence to the excellence of its faculty. In Lillian Hoddeson's No Boundaries, twenty-three scholars provide easily accessible vignettes about University of Illinois faculty who have made major contributions to their fields, to knowledge, and to the world.
 
Here are many of the most inspiring--and often most amusing--people whose work elevated the University of Illinois into a world leader in a variety of areas. Their lives demonstrate again and again that the work of the University takes place as much away from campus as on it: Oscar Lewis's pioneering studies of poverty in Mexico, for example, Ralph Grim's geological work in Africa, and Nathan Newmark's architectural work in Mexico City. Here also are insights into the remarkable careers of classicist William Oldfather, chemist Roger Adams, the amazing double Nobel Prize-winning physicist John Bardeen, and accounts of Katharine Sharp's work that made the University of Illinois Library into a national treasure. Also included are the legendary contributions of the University of Illinois to computer science, biochemistry, history, literary study, and electronic music.  
 

About this title

About the Author

Lillian Hoddeson, the Thomas Siebel Professor Emerita of the History of Science at the University of Illinois, is coauthor of Crystal Fire, Critical Assembly, True Genius, and Fermilab: Physics, the Frontier, and Megascience.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252072030
• ISBN 13: 9780252072031
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360
• Editor: Hoddeson Lillian