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The Simple and Courageous Course: Industrial Patronage of Basic Research at the University of Chicago, 1945–1953 (2020)

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Physics Research Research institutes; research stations Patronage Science and industry 20th century, early Chicago (Illinois, U.S.) University of Chicago

The University of Chicago was the site of a remarkable ideological alignment after World War II. Its chancellor, Robert Maynard Hutchins, was one of mid-century America’s fiercest critics of science and of the moral stature of scientists. His administration nevertheless forged a détente with Chicago’s physical scientists in the process of establishing the Institutes for Basic Research, which consolidated the personnel and resources the Manhattan Project had brought to campus. Chicago’s left-leaning group of scientists and administrators then made common cause with a series of conservative industrial interests in order to fund the new institutes, on the basis that industry had an obligation to support basic research. This intersection of otherwise divergent ideological strands exposes the institutional malleability of patronage relationships in the years after World War II.

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Authors & Contributors
John J. Rush
Westfall, Catherine L.
Walker, Mark
Vyroviy, Serhiy
Trischler, Helmuth
Tatarchuk, Vitaliy
Journals
Technology and Culture
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Social Studies of Science
Research in the History of Technology
Physics in Perspective
Perspectives on Science
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
University of Alabama Press
Transaction Publishers
Steiner
Research Corporation
Concepts
Research
Research institutes; research stations
Science and industry
Physics
Societies; institutions; academies
Sociology
People
Veblen, Thorstein Bunde
Stigler, George Joseph
Lederman, Leon Max
Ehrlich, Paul
Wilson, Robert Rathbun
Majima, Rikou
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century, late
20th century
Places
United States
Chicago (Illinois, U.S.)
Germany
Japan
Ukraine
China
Institutions
University of Chicago
American Cancer Society
Research Corporation (United States)
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (United States)
Justus Liebig-Universität Giessen
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