Book ID: CBB000065496

Big science: The growth of large-scale research (1992)

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Galison, Peter (Editor)
Hevly, Bruce W. (Editor)


Stanford University Press
Publication date: 1992


Publication Date: 1992
Physical Details: xi + 392 pp.; illus.; notes; bibl.; index

Description Introduction, “The many forces of big science” by Galison, Peter; afterword, “Reflections on big science and big history”, by Hevly, Bruce. Other papers are entered separately in the present bibliography.


Reviewed By

Review Westfall, C. (1993) Review of "Big science: The growth of large-scale research". Technology and Culture (pp. 966-67). unapi

Review Bromberg, J.L. (1994) Review of "Big science: The growth of large-scale research". Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology (pp. 441-43). unapi

Review Lemaine, G. (1994) Review of "Big science: The growth of large-scale research". L'Année Sociologique (pp. 481-86). unapi

Review Kaiserfeld, T. (1993) Review of "Big science: The growth of large-scale research". Lychnos (pp. 180-87). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Pestre, Dominique; Krige, John (1992) Some thoughts on the early history of CERN. In: Big science: The growth of large-scale research (p. 78). unapi

Chapter Panofsky, W.K.H. (1992) SLAC and big science: Stanford University. In: Big science: The growth of large-scale research (p. 129). unapi

Chapter Everitt, C.W.F. (1992) Background to history: The transition from little physics to big physics in the Gravity Probe B relativity gyroscope program. In: Big science: The growth of large-scale research (p. 212). unapi

Chapter Hoddeson, Lillian (1992) Mission change in the large laboratory: The Los Alamos implosion program, 1943-1945. In: Big science: The growth of large-scale research (p. 265). unapi

Chapter Kevles, Daniel J. (1992) K1S2: Korea, science, and the state. In: Big science: The growth of large-scale research (p. 312). unapi

Chapter Kargon, Robert Hugh; Kargon, Robert; Leslie, Stuart W.; Schoenberger, Erica (1992) Far beyond big science: Science regions and the organization of research and development. In: Big science: The growth of large-scale research (p. 334). unapi

Chapter Seidel, Robert (1992) The origins of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. In: Big science: The growth of large-scale research (p. 21). unapi

Chapter Galison, Peter; Hevly, Bruce; Lowen, Rebecca (1992) Controlling the monster: Stanford and the growth of physics research, 1935-1962. In: Big science: The growth of large-scale research (p. 46). unapi

Chapter Traweek, Sharon (1992) Big science and colonialist discourse: Building high-energy physics in Japan. In: Big science: The growth of large-scale research (p. 100). unapi

Chapter Schweber, S.S. (1992) Big science in context: Cornell and MIT. In: Big science: The growth of large-scale research (p. 149). unapi

Chapter Smith, Robert W. (1992) The biggest kind of big science: Astronomers and the space telescope. In: Big science: The growth of large-scale research (p. 184). unapi

Chapter Hounshell, David A. (1992) Du Pont and the management of large-scale research and development. In: Big science: The growth of large-scale research (p. 236). unapi

Chapter Needell, Allan A. (1992) From military research to big science: Lloyd Berkner and science-statesmanship in the postwar era. In: Big science: The growth of large-scale research (p. 290). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Alvarez de Morales, Camilo
Baeyer, Hans Christian von
Barber, Michael D.
Ehrhardt, George R.
Filkins, Kathleen M.
Glazebrook, Patricia
Journals
Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
Cornell University
Rutgers University
University of Toronto
Yale University
Kentucky, University of
Duke University
Concepts
Science
Authority of science
Primary and secondary education
Historians of science, modern
Nationalism
Science and economics
People
Bergson, Henri Louis
Bunge, Mario
Burtt, Edwin Arthur
Ginés, Juan Vernet
Heidegger, Martin
Kelly, Harry C.
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
21st century
Medieval
Places
India
British Isles
Institutions
Science Society of China
United States. National Bureau of Standards
Canada. Navy
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