Book ID: CBB000100263

For Better or for Worse: The Marriage of Science and Government in the United States (2000)

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Mann, Alfred K. (Author)


Columbia University Press


Publication Date: 2000
Physical Details: xviii + 240 pp., illus., bibl., index
Language: English

Description Funding of science research by government agencies.


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Review Teich, Albert H. (2002) Review of "For Better or for Worse: The Marriage of Science and Government in the United States". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 158). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Wolfe, Douglas A.
Westfall, Catherine L.
Walker, Mark
Trischler, Helmuth
Scheiding, Tom
Sánchez Ron, José Manuel
Concepts
Government sponsored science
Research support
Science and government
Patronage
Science and politics
Physics
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
Early modern
21st century
18th century
Places
United States
Spain
Germany
France
Ukraine
Japan
Institutions
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)
Southeast Fisheries Science Center (Miami, Florida)
Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (Beaufort, N. C.)
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