Science policy up close /

Marburger, John H., III 1941-2011,

Science policy up close / John H. Marburger III ; edited by Robert P. Crease. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015. - 1 online resource (viii, 247 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Shoreham Commission -- The superconducting supercollider and the collider decade -- Managing a national laboratory -- Presidential science advisor I: advice and advocacy in Washington -- Presidential science advisor II: measuring and prioritizing -- The science and art of science policy.

In a career that included Presidential Science Advisor to George W. Bush, John Marburger stood on the front line of battles that pulled science deep into the political arena. Science controversies, he discovered, are never just about science. As his reflections show, science can no longer be shielded from public scrutiny and government supervision.


In English.

0674735935 (electronic bk.) 9780674735934 (electronic bk.) 9780674417090 (hbk.) 0674417097 (hbk.)

10.4159/harvard.9780674735934 doi

00011705 22573/ctt21r5cmz JSTOR

2014015891


Marburger, John H., III 1941-2011.
Marburger, John H., III 1941-2011.


Science and state--United States.
Science--Political aspects--United States.
Science consultants--United States--Biography.
Physicists--United States--Biography.
Politique scientifique et technique--États-Unis.
Sciences--Aspect politique--États-Unis.
Conseillers scientifiques--États-Unis--Biographies.
Physiciens--États-Unis--Biographies.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Industries--General.
HISTORY--United States--20th Century.
Physicists.
Science and state.
Science consultants.
Science--Political aspects.
Wissenschaftspolitik


United States.


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