TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sapolsky,Harvey M.
TI  - Science and the Navy: the History of the Office of Naval Research
T2  - Princeton Legacy Library
SN  - 9781400860920
AV  - V394.A7 
U1  - 359 21
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - United States
KW  - Office of Naval Research
KW  - History
KW  - fast
KW  - Science and state
KW  - Federal aid to research
KW  - Politique scientifique et technique
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - 20th Century
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
KW  - Marine & Naval
KW  - Military Science
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - 7
N1  - Cover; Contents; ""Cover ""; ""Contents""
N2  - 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
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