Science on the air : popularizers and personalities on radio and early television / Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette.

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 scie...

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Main Author: La Follette, Marcel Chotkowski, 1944-
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Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2008.
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