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The sciences in the American context : new perspectives / edited by Nathan Reingold.

Title
The sciences in the American context : new perspectives / edited by Nathan Reingold.
Author
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Publication
Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979.

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Additional Authors
  • Reingold, Nathan, 1927-
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science. Section on History and Philosophy of Science
  • History of Science Society
Description
399 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Science
  • Science > United States > History > Congresses
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Congress
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • History
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
Note
  • Papers presented at a bicentennial conference at the Feb. 1976 Boston meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; cosponsored by Section L of the Association and the History of Science Society.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Reflections on 200 years of science in the United States / Nathan Reingold -- Paradigm lost / William H. Goetzmann -- Americans abroad: science and cultural nationalism in the early nineteenth century / Bruce Sinclair -- Astronomy in antebellum America / Deborah Jean Warner -- Science, public policy, and popular precepts: Alexander Dallas Bache and Alfred beach as symbolic adversaries / Robert Post -- The American scientist in higher education, 1820-1910 / Stanley M. Guralnick -- Rationalization and reality in shaping American agricultural research, 1875-1914 / Charles E. Rosenberg -- From the Grand Canyon to the Marianas Trench: the earth sciences after Darwin / Steve Pyne -- Industrial research laboratories / Kendall Birr -- The rise and spread of the classical school of heredity, 1910-1930: development and influence of the Mendelian chromosome theory / Garland E. Allen -- American foundations as patrons of science: the commitment to individual research / Stanley Coben -- Warren Weaver and the Rockefeller Foundation program in molecular biology: a case study in the management of science / Robert E. Kohler, Jr. -- The physics business in America, 1919-1940: a statistical reconnaissance / Spencer R. Weart -- Science agencies in World War II: the OSRD and its challengers / Carroll Pursell -- Academic science and the military: the years since the Second World War / Harvey M. Sapolsky.
ISBN
  • 0874747988
  • 087474797X (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^79607059^
OCLC
5239582
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library