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
enlightened position but largely from a bureaucratic accident. Once
involved with basic research, however, the ONR challenged a Navy
skeptical of the value of independent scientific advice and
established a national security rationale that gave American
science its Golden Age. Eventually, the ONR's autonomy was worn
away in bureaucratic struggles, but Sapolsky demonstrates that its
experience holds lessons for those who are committed to the
effective management of science and interested in the ability of
scientists to choose the directions for their research. As military
support for basic research fades, scientists are discovering that
they are unprotected from the vagaries of distributive politics.
Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the
latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
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