NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Vannevar Bush, James Bryant Conant, Karl Taylor Compton
23 Jan 2019
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Interwar period (between wwi and wii) set foundation for new era of big science projects that will become a staple of wwii and post war period. Money to try and fail: projects are short, middle, or long-term but are expected to produce concrete results they were paid for so they were used, industries conduct both basic and applied research. Applied: tech, knowledge of world around: political and social goals are stated as justification for the development of certain projects, political goals are combined with scientists having some autonomy in setting work goals. The roots of big science the us prepares itself for another war. One of the leading science policy advisors in the us was vannevar bush chair of. Prior to the us" entry into the war, he realized nazi threat and did not think us was adequately equipped to handle germany"s advanced air force.
