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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Toby A Appel |
| ISBN: | 080186321X 9780801863219 |
| OCLC Number: | 43050289 |
| Description: | xii, 393 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: Envisioning a Federal Patron for Biology -- Making a Place for Biology at the "Endless Frontier," 1945-1950 -- Fashioning a New Federal Patron for Biology, 1950-1952 -- Expanding and Experimenting in the 1950s -- Government Relations and Policy-making in the Cold War Era -- Competing Within a Pluralist Federal Funding System, 1952-1963 -- Funding Individuals and Institutions in the 1960s: Opportunities and Constraints -- Promoting Big Biology: Biotrons, Boats, and National Biological Laboratories -- Allocating Resources to a Divided Science: The "New" and the "Old" in Biology -- Forging New Directions after the Golden Age, 1968-1972 -- End of an Era, 1972-1975 -- Program Officers, 1951-1975, Division of Biological and Medical Sciences -- Members of Divisional and Advisory Committees, Biological and Medical Sciences, 1952-1972. |
| Responsibility: | Toby A. Appel. |
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Abstract:
"In this NSF-funded study, Appel explores how the agency developed, how it worked, and what difference it made in shaping modern biology in the United States. Based on formerly untapped archival sources as well as on interviews of participants, and building upon prior historical literature, Shaping Biology covers new ground and raises significant issues for further research on postwar biology and on federal funding of science in general."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Biology -- Research -- United States -- History.
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- National Science Foundation (U.S.)
- Biological Science Disciplines -- history -- United States.
- Academies and Institutes -- history -- United States.
- Research Support as Topic -- history -- United States.
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- National Science Foundation.
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