Prestige Asymmetry in American Physics: Aspirations, Applications, and the Purloined Letter Effect
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DOI: 10.1017/s0269889717000242
Abstract: Argument Why do similar scientific enterprises garner unequal public approbation? High energy physics attracted considerable attention in the late-twentieth-century United States, whereas condensed matter physics – which occupied the greater proportion of US physicists –… read more here.
Keywords: purloined letter; letter effect; prestige asymmetry; physics ... See more keywords