Addressing the Challenge of Scientific Development: The First Steep Steps of a Long Path
Notwithstanding the extremely difficult overall situation and the US blockade and aggression, from the very outset of the victory of the revolution the youthful Cuban leadership showed amazing lucidity and tenacity in their resolutely determination to dev
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Angelo Baracca Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Florence Sesto Fiorentino, Florence Italy
Rosella Franconi Department for Sustainability ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Casaccia Research Centre Rome Italy
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Acknowledgements
AB is grateful to the Department of Physics of the University of Florence for financial support. AB is also indebted to the Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Prof. Jürgen Renn, for his interest, hospitality and support during the beginning of this research. All the information on the development of physics in Cuba originates, and is quoted, from the previous comprehensive work published in the volume A. Baracca, J. Renn and H. Wendt (eds.), The History of Physics in Cuba, Berlin, Springer, 2014. AB is deeply indebted towards all the Cuban colleagues who collaborated in that research. AB is also indebted to Edoardo Magnone for his encouragement in the early steps of this research, and further information on science in South Korea. We are indebted to Paolo Amati for his witness and help that s
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