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Pulling apart the quantum’s entanglement with the counter culture: How fysiks became physics

David Kaiser: How the hippies saved physics: Science, counterculture, and the quantum revival. New York and London: Norton, 2011, 372pp, $17.95 PB, $26.95 HB

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Pinch, T. Pulling apart the quantum’s entanglement with the counter culture: How fysiks became physics. Metascience 21, 601–606 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-012-9680-3

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