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The Royal Society and the promotion of science since 1960 /

The Royal Society is one of the world's oldest and most prestigious scientific bodies, but what has it done in recent decades? Increasingly marginalised by postwar developments and the reforms of civil science in the 1960s, the Society was at risk of resting on its laurels. Instead, it found wa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Collins, Peter, 1952- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Presidential politics and postwar priorities
  • Running UK science?
  • Supporting individual researchers
  • The applications of science
  • Defending the science base
  • Doing science publicly
  • Science and international politics
  • Keeping the door open
  • Europe: competition and collaboration
  • Doing science globally
  • Looking outward.