Reingold, Nathan (Editor)
Smithsonian Institution Press
Physical Details: 399 pp.; bibls.
Description Contents: Reingold, Nathan: Reflections on 200 years of science in the United States. Goetzmann, William H.: Paradigm lost. Sinclair, Bruce: Americans abroad: Science and cultural nationalism in the early 19th century. Warner, Deborah Jean: Astronomy in antebellum America. Post, Robert: Science, public policy, and popular precepts: Alexander Dallas Bache and Alfred Beach as symbolic adversaries. Guralnick, Stanley M.: The American scientist in higher education, 1820-1910. Rosenberg, Charles E.: Rationalization and reality in shaping American agricultural research, 1875-1914. Pyne, Steve: From the Grand Canyon to the Marianas Trench: The earth sciences after Darwin. Birr, Kendall: Industrial research laboratories. Allen, Garland E.: The rise and spread of the classical school of heredity, 1910-1930: Development and influence of the Mendelian chromosome theory. Coben, Stanley: American foundations as patrons of science: The commitment to individual research. Kohler, Robert E., Jr.: Warren Weaver and the Rockefeller Foundation program in molecular biology: A case study in the management of science. Weart, Spencer R.: The physics business in America, 1919-1940: A statistical reconnaissance. Pursell, Carroll W., Jr.: Science agencies in World War II: The OSRD and its challengers. Sapolsky, Harvey M.: Academic science and the military: The years since the Second World War.
Chapter Pursell, Carroll W. (1979) Science agencies in World War II: The OSRD and its challenges. In: The sciences in the American context: New perspectives (pp. 359-378).
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