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David Munns
David Munns is an associate professor of history at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is the author of
Engineering the Environment: Phytotrons and the Quest for Climate Control in the Cold War
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The Suffix That Tells the Story of Modern Science
Why did words that end in “tron” once sound so futuristic?
David Munns
Oct 24, 2017
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