Focusing on MIT and Stanford, Leslie offers a critical look at American science in the making. He reveals a regrettable series of misplaced priorities and missed opportunities that have characterized the recent history of science and technology in this country.
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An eye-opener. During the Second World War, American universities won R&D contracts far bigger than those awarded to industrial giants. . . . Leslie shows how these seductive handouts finally compromised intellectual freedom and crumbled the American economy, causing campus riots on the way. -- New Scientist
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Sizing up MIT in 1962 from his perspective as the director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Physicist Alvin Weinberg, who coined the term "big science," quipped that it was becoming increasingly hard "to tell whether the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a university with many government research laboratories appended to it or a cluster of government research laboratories with a very good educational institution attached to it." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Air Force, Instrumentation Laboratory, Rad Lab, Lincoln Laboratory, Bell Labs, Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, Department of Defense, Round Hill, North American, Materiel Science, Radiation Laboratory, Signal Corps, Bell Laboratories, Karl Compton, Museum Collections, Silicon Valley, Korean War, Sonic Boom, United States, University Polarized Around the Military, Varian Associates, West Coast, Manhattan Project, National Magnet Laboratory New!
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Sizing up MIT in 1962 from his perspective as the director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Physicist Alvin Weinberg, who coined the term "big science," quipped that it was becoming increasingly hard "to tell whether the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a university with many government research laboratories appended to it or a cluster of government research laboratories with a very good educational institution attached to it." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Air Force, Instrumentation Laboratory, Rad Lab, Lincoln Laboratory, Bell Labs, Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, Department of Defense, Round Hill, North American, Materiel Science, Radiation Laboratory, Signal Corps, Bell Laboratories, Karl Compton, Museum Collections, Silicon Valley, Korean War, Sonic Boom, United States, University Polarized Around the Military, Varian Associates, West Coast, Manhattan Project, National Magnet Laboratory New!
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