Science on the Air: Popularizers and Personalities on Radio and Early Television

by Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette

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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 show more Chotkowski LaFollette transports readers to the early da show less

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Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
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Science & Nature, Nonfiction, History
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509.73 — Natural sciences & mathematics Science History, geographic treatment, biography North America United States
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Q225 .L343 — Science Science (General) General
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