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Article: Science on the Air: Popularizers and Personalities on Radio and Early Television
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- The Journal of American Culture
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- June 1, 2009
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Science on the Air: Popularizers and Personalities on Radio and Early Television Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2008.
Better communication of science to the lay public has been on the wish list of intellectuals ever since William Whewall coined the term "scientist" in 1834 (and even quite a bit before). Depression-era America's efforts to spread the scientific word may pale in comparison to those of nineteenth-century Europeans (with their Bridgewater Treatises and Cult of Positivism), but the tentative and earnest efforts of early radio and television pioneers, Marcel LaFollette writes in Science on the Air, are a respectable interlude in this history. New ...