Science and the Navy (eBook)

The History of the Office of Naval Research

Harvey M. Sapolsky (Autor)

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2014
160 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6092-0 (ISBN)

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Addressing all those interested in the history of American science and concerned with its future, a leading scholar of public policy explains how and why the Office of Naval Research became the first federal agency to support a wide range of scientific work in universities. Harvey Sapolsky shows that the ONR functioned as a "surrogate national science foundation" between 1946 and 1950 and argues that its activities emerged not from any particularly enlightened position but largely from a bureaucratic accident. Once involved with basic research, however, the ONR challenged a Navy skeptical of the value of independent scientific advice and established a national security rationale that gave American science its Golden Age. Eventually, the ONR's autonomy was worn away in bureaucratic struggles, but Sapolsky demonstrates that its experience holds lessons for those who are committed to the effective management of science and interested in the ability of scientists to choose the directions for their research. As military support for basic research fades, scientists are discovering that they are unprotected from the vagaries of distributive politics.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Adviser • Aerospace • Air Force Research Laboratory • Amendment • American Association for the Advancement of Science • amphibious warfare • Biomedical scientist • Board of Invention and Research • Brookings Institution • Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists • Bureau of Aeronautics • Bureau of Navigation (United States Navy) • Bureau of Ships • Career • Center for Naval Analyses • chairman • Chief of Naval Operations • Chief of Naval Personnel • Chief of Naval Research • Congressional Research Service • darpa • Engineering • George A. Keyworth, II • government agency • Government scientist • Harvard University Press • Institute for Defense Analyses • Institution • joint chiefs of staff • Jurisdiction • Laboratory • Legislation • Line officer • Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Materiel • Military • military history • Military policy • Military science • Nasa • National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics • National Institutes of Health • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration • National Science Board • National Science Foundation • national security • National Technical Information Service • Naval History • Naval Tactical Data System • naval warfare • Navy • Navy Office (Germany) • Nuclear Navy • Nuclear power • Nuclear Propulsion • nuclear weapon • Nuclear weapon" • Oceanography • Office of Defense Mobilization • Office of Management and Budget • office of naval research • Office of Science and Technology Policy • Office of Scientific Research and Development • Office of the Secretary of Defense • official history • Operations Research • Policy • Political Science • Politician • President's Science Advisory Committee • Princeton University Press • program management • Radiation Laboratory (MIT) • Radio Telescope • Rand Corporation • Research and Development • science education • Science Policy • Science Studies • science, technology and society • "Science, technology and society" • scientific enterprise • Scientific Method • Smithsonian Institution • Sputnik crisis • Strategic Defense Initiative • submarine warfare • Subsidy • Technology • UGM-27 Polaris • United States Department of Defense • United States Department of State • United States Department of the Navy • United States Navy • United States Navy Reserve • United States Secretary of Defense • United States Secretary of the Navy • Vannevar Bush • Vice admiral (United States) • war effort • weapon system • woods hole oceanographic institution
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6092-X / 140086092X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6092-0 / 9781400860920