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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Material Type: | Document, Government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert E Kohler |
ISBN: | 9780226726410 022672641X |
OCLC Number: | 1158170586 |
Language Note: | In English. |
Description: | 1 online resource (432 p.) : 35 halftones, 12 tables, 2 figures |
Contents: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Preface -- 1. Systems of Patronage -- 2. Troubled Beginnings: The Carnegie Institution -- 3. Reluctant Patrons: The Rockefeller and Carnegie Boards -- 4. The National Research Fellowships -- 5. A Limited Partnership -- 6. Americans in Paris: Wickliffe Rose, Augustus Trowbridge -- 7. Making the Peaks Higher: European Science -- 8. Developing American Science -- 9. The Rockefeller Foundation in Transition -- 10. Warren Weaver and His Program -- 11. Biological Communities and Disciplines -- 12. Weaver and the Biomolecular Set -- 13.. Instruments of Science -- 14. Partners in Science in Perspective -- Abbreviations -- Index |
Responsibility: | Robert E. Kohler. |
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Abstract:
Robert Kohler shows exactly how entrepreneurial academic scientists became intimate "partners in science" with the officers of the large foundations created by John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie, and in so doing tells a fascinating story of how the modern system of grant-getting and grant-giving evolved, and how this funding process has changed the way laboratory scientists make their careers and do their work. "This book is a rich historical tapestry of people, institutions and scientific ideas. It will stand for a long time as a source of precise and detailed information about an important aspect of the scientific enterprise. . .It also contains many valuable lessons for the coming years."--John Ziman, Times Higher Education Supplement.
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