Book ID: CBB000060255

The Cold War and American science: The military-industrial-academic complex at MIT and Stanford (1993)

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Leslie, Stuart W. (Author)


Columbia University Press


Publication Date: 1993
Physical Details: xiii + 332 pp.; illus.; notes; index

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Review Gruber, C.S. (1994) Review of "The Cold War and American science: The military-industrial-academic complex at MIT and Stanford". History of Education Quarterly (pp. 224-26). unapi

Review Geiger, R.L. (1994) Review of "The Cold War and American science: The military-industrial-academic complex at MIT and Stanford". Technology and Culture (pp. 629-31). unapi

Review Owens, L. (1993) Review of "The Cold War and American science: The military-industrial-academic complex at MIT and Stanford". Business History Review (pp. 335-37). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Lowen, Rebecca S.
Hevly, Bruce W.
Leslie, Stuart W.
Adams, Stephen B.
Dennis, Michael Aaron
Galison, Peter
Journals
Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
History of Education Quarterly
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
MIT Press
University of California Press
University of Chicago Press
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Concepts
Science
Artificial intelligence
Biomedical technology
Cold War
Genetic engineering
Genetics
People
Draper, Charles Stark
Meyer, Richard Ernst
Suksdorf, Wilhelm Nikolaus
Terman, Frederick Emmons
Webster, David Locke
Young, Kimball
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
21st century
Places
United States
Silicon Valley (California)
San Francisco (California)
Institutions
Stanford University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Harvard University
University of Oregon
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