Science and the Navy: The History of the Office of Naval Research (Princeton Legacy Library) - Hardcover

Sapolsky, Harvey M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691078475 ISBN 13: 9780691078472

Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1990

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Book by Sapolsky Harvey M

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"This is an important story, well told and fully documented through extensive interviews and archival research.... [This book] sharpen[s] our understanding of the origins and evolution of the fragile compact that has linked scientists to the state. In doing so, [it] makes an excellent contribution to our understanding of science policy in the United States."--Journal of Politics

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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 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 of the value of independent scientific advice and established a national security rationale that gave American science its Golden Age. Eventually, the ONR's autonomy was worn away in bureaucratic struggles, but Sapolsky demonstrates that its experience holds lessons for those who are committed to the effective management of science and interested in the ability of scientists to choose the directions for their research. As military support for basic research fades, scientists are discovering that they are unprotected from the vagaries of distributive politics.

Originally published in 1990.

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• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0691078475
• ISBN 13: 9780691078472
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160