Article ID: CBB168741962

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

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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
Zhang, Jian
Westfall, Catherine L.
Walker, Mark
Vyroviy, Serhiy
Trischler, Helmuth
Concepts
Research
Research institutes; research stations
Science and industry
Physics
Societies; institutions; academies
Science and politics
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century, late
20th century
Places
United States
Chicago (Illinois, U.S.)
Germany
Japan
China
Ukraine
Institutions
University of Chicago
Research Corporation (United States)
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (United States)
Science Society of China
Justus Liebig-Universität Giessen
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