Science and the Navy: The History of the Office of Naval Research

by Harvey M. Sapolsky

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691601143
• ISBN13: 9780691601144
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"