Overview
Excellent reference for those who are interested in the roles of government-sponsored research and the long term social impacts of these programs
A succulent account on the rise of the new ‘Queen of the Sciences’—Biology, as shaped by the NSF
Expert analysis on the complicated dynamics between basic research, applied science, public funding and commercialization of intellectual properties
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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About this book
National Science Foundation (NSF) is a unique federal agency because it supports scientific research financially, but does not engage in scientific work itself. Its history is known only in part because the NSF is a vibrant, expanding, and living entity that makes the final telling of its story impossible. Much can be learned from its beginning as well as its component parts. If the founding of the NSF in 1950 was couched in an era of physics, especially atomic physics, certainly by the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st, biology was, and remains, the queen of sciences for the predictable future. This book highlights the elite status of America’s biological sciences as they were funded, affected, and, to a very real degree, interactively guided by the NSF. It examines important events in the earlier history of the Foundation because they play strongly upon the development of the various biology directorates. Issues such as education, applied research, medical science, the National Institutes of Health, the beginnings of biotechnology, and other matters are also discussed.
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Book Title: Millennial Biology: The National Science Foundation and American Biology, 1975-2005
Authors: Donald J. McGraw
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56367-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56366-0Published: 26 January 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56369-1Published: 26 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56367-7Published: 25 January 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLI, 611
Number of Illustrations: 36 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Life Sciences, general, Biomedicine, general, History of Science, Philosophy of Science