Edward Condon’s Cooperative Vision: Science, Industry, and Innovation in Modern America

Edward Condon's Cooperative Vision combines biographical and institutional history.  Lassman examines the professional career of theoretical physicist Edward Condon at Princeton University, Pittsburgh's Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, and the National Bureau of Standards to illuminate contested visions of the usefulness of science that played out during The Great Depression, the Second World War, and the early Cold War.