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

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sapolsky, Harvey M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
United States. > Office of Naval Research.
United States. > Office of Naval Research > History.
Science and state.
Federal aid to research.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Marine & Naval.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Politique scientifique et technique > États-Unis > Histoire.
Federal aid to research > United States > History.
Science and state > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 that the ONR functioned as a ""surrogate national science foundation"" between 1946 and 1950 and argues that its activities emerged not from any particularly enlightened position but largely from a bureaucratic accident. Once involved with basic research, however, the ONR challenged a Navy skeptical.
Notas:Cover; Contents.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (158 pages).
ISBN:9781400860920

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