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Science and the Navy : The History of the Office of Naval Research

Addressing all those interested in the history of American science and concerned with its future, a leading scholar of public policy explains how and why the Office of Naval Research became the first federal agency to support a wide range of scientific work in universities. Harvey Sapolsky shows tha...

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Autor principal: Sapolsky, Harvey M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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