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A Different Sort of Time - The Life of Jerrold R. Zacharias - Scientist, Engineer, Educator (Paperback)
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A Different Sort of Time - The Life of Jerrold R. Zacharias - Scientist, Engineer, Educator (Paperback)
Series: A Different Sort of Time
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In a clear, nontechnical account, Jack Goldstein tells the story of
this entrepreneurial American scientist who played an essential
part in experiments important to the development of quantum
mechanics, who later became an advisor to the government during
much of the Cold War period, and whose leadership in educational
reform resulted in the restructuring of the entire American high
school science curriculum. Jerrold Zacharias (1905-1986) was a
physicist well placed by historical circumstance to take a central
part in the development of American science, science policy, and
science education. In a clear, nontechnical account, Jack Goldstein
tells the story of this entrepreneurial American scientist who
played an essential part in experiments important to the
development of quantum mechanics, who later became an advisor to
the government during much of the Cold War period, and whose
leadership in educational reform resulted in the restructuring of
the entire American high school science curriculum. Zacharias lived
at a time when an individual with imagination and courage could
make a difference, whether at the forefront of science or in
matters of public policy. He believed that every citizen, even
those with modest scientific sophistication and knowledge, could
learn to think like a scientist. Now, at a time when the issues of
science education and science literacy are again of compelling
national interest, his ideas merit close attention.Goldstein
describes Zacharias's coming of scientific age in the early 1930s,
as a member of 1. 1. Rabi's group at Columbia, and examines the
leading role he played during World War II at MIT's Radiation
Laboratory and at the Manhattan Project. From about 1955 on,
Goldstein observes, Zacharias made significant contributions to
science education in physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics
at the primary, secondary, and college levels. As a result of his
initiatives, science and mathematics curriculum development
flourished in a number of third-world countries.
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