Forming new physics communities:Australia and japan, 1914-1950

Abstract

In 1914, the physics discipline had reached a very similar stage of development in Australia and Japan. A generation later the paths of development had considerably diverged. A systematic comparison of the evolution of physics in the two countries during these years identifies factors-political, economic and cultural-that led to this divergence, but it also uncovers a number of underlying parallels. © 1990 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.