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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778059103321

Autore

La Follette Marcel Chotkowski <1944->

Titolo

Science on the air [[electronic resource] ] : popularizers and personalities on radio and early television / / Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2008

ISBN

1-282-23971-6

9786612239717

0-226-46695-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 p.)

Classificazione

AP 35160

Disciplina

509.73/0904

Soggetti

Science news - United States - History

Communication in science - United States - History

Radio - United States - History

Television - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-294) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Tuxedos and microphones -- The radio nature league -- Syndicating science -- Cooperative ventures -- Shifting ground -- A twist of the dial -- Facts and fictionalizations -- Adventuring with scientists -- Broadcasting the voice of the atom -- Illusions of actuality --    Epilogue entertaining lessons.

Sommario/riassunto

Mr. Wizard's World. Bill Nye the Science Guy. NPR's Science Friday. These popular television and radio programs broadcast science into the homes of millions of viewers and listeners. But these modern series owe much of their success to the pioneering efforts of early-twentieth-century science shows like Adventures in Science and "Our Friend the Atom." Science on the Air is the fascinating history of the evolution of popular science in the first decades of the broadcasting era.      Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette transports readers to the early da