Cohen, Jack S. (Author)
The US lagged behind the European powers, Germany, Britain and France, in scientific research and development at the beginning of the 20th century. Why this occurred and how Germany and Britain supported their flourishing scientific research cultures are discussed. The first serious expansion in basic scientific research in the US occurred with the influx of European Jewish scientists fleeing Nazism in the 1930’s. They specifically brought with them knowledge of atomic physics. The influence of Vannevar Bush, who was Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War Two proved crucial for the expansion of civilian research and development after the War, supported by the Federal Government. Also after the War, Operation Paperclip brought German scientists to the US and they had significant influence on developments in aeronautics, rocketry and space exploration.
...More
Book
Medawar, Jean;
Pyke, David;
(2001)
Hitler's Gift: The True Story of the Scientists Expelled By the Nazi Regime
(/isis/citation/CBB000101880/)
Article
Bickel, Marcel H.;
(1999)
Das amerikanische Malaria-Programm (1941-1946) und seine Folgen für die biomedizinische Forschung nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg
(/isis/citation/CBB000111959/)
Article
Neuenschwander, Dwight E.;
(2010)
Bright Ideas: From Concept to Hardware in the First Lasers
(/isis/citation/CBB001320778/)
Book
Thomas Robertson;
Richard P. Tucker;
Nicholas B. Breyfogle;
Peter Mansoor;
(2020)
Nature at War: American Environments and World War II
(/isis/citation/CBB159359594/)
Book
Kaufmann, Doris;
(2000)
Geschichte der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft im Nationalsozialismus: Bestandsaufnahme und Perspektiven der Forschung
(/isis/citation/CBB000110620/)
Book
Gino Segrè;
Bettina Hoerlin;
(2017)
Il Papa della fisica: Enrico Fermi e la nascita dell’era atomica
(/isis/citation/CBB512699130/)
Article
Ito, Kenji;
(2002)
Values of “Pure Science”: Nishina Yoshio's Wartime Discourse between Nationalism and Physics, 1940-1945
(/isis/citation/CBB000340907/)
Article
Tatarchuk, Vitaliy;
Karamash, Serhiy;
Vyroviy, Serhiy;
(2012)
Scientist in the Field of Construction Materials and Chemistry Kostyantin G. Dementyev: New Information to Biography
(/isis/citation/CBB001321293/)
Book
Hoffmann, Dieter;
Walker, Mark;
(2007)
Physiker zwischen Autonomie und Anpassung. Die Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft im Dritten Reich
(/isis/citation/CBB000850441/)
Article
Finn Aaserud;
(2020)
Niels Bohr's Diplomatic Mission during and after World War Two
(/isis/citation/CBB807567961/)
Article
Ploeger, Joanna S.;
(2002)
The Art of Science at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory: The Rhetoric of Aesthetics and Humanism in the National Laboratory System in the Late 1960s
(/isis/citation/CBB000200131/)
Article
Cesareo, Roberto;
(2018)
Il progetto dei servizi segreti americani di assassinare Werner Heisenberg
(/isis/citation/CBB317202112/)
Book
Steve Olson;
(2020)
The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age
(/isis/citation/CBB409460611/)
Article
Bederson, Benjamin;
(2005)
Fritz Reiche and the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars
(/isis/citation/CBB000641839/)
Chapter
Lemuth, Oliver;
Stutz, Rüdiger;
(2003)
“Patriotic Scientists”: Jenaer Physiker und Chemiker zwischen berufsständischen Eigeninteressen und “vaterländischer Pflichterfüllung”
(/isis/citation/CBB000774709/)
Article
Rentetzi, Maria;
(2008)
The U.S. Radium Industry: Industrial In-house Research and the Commercialization of Science
(/isis/citation/CBB000932239/)
Article
RALPH JESSEN;
(2020)
Reiz und Risiko der Selbsthistorisierung – die Geschichte der medizinischen Fachgesellschaften im Kontext zeithistorischer Aufarbeitungs- und Auftragsforschung
(/isis/citation/CBB377751886/)
Article
Rogelio Godínez Reséndiz;
Patricia Aceves Pastrana;
Juan Manuel Corona Alcántar;
Nicolás Cárdenas García;
(2016)
Introducción de los antibióticos en México: investigación científica y producción industrial (1944-1955)
(/isis/citation/CBB097332242/)
Article
Ridler, Jason S.;
(2008)
Emergence: Toward a Historiography of Canadian Defence Research During the Second World War
(/isis/citation/CBB001181601/)
Chapter
Pursell, Carroll W.;
(1979)
Science agencies in World War II: The OSRD and its challenges
(/isis/citation/CBB001180233/)
Be the first to comment!