Partners in Science: Foundations and Natural Scientists, 1900-1945 - Hardcover

Kohler

 
9780226450605: Partners in Science: Foundations and Natural Scientists, 1900-1945
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0226450600 ISBN 13: 9780226450605
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1991

Synopsis

Robert Kohler shows exactly how entrepreneurial academic scientists became intimate "partners in science" with the officers of the large foundations created by John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie, and in so doing tells a fascinating story of how the modern system of grant-getting and grant-giving evolved, and how this funding process has changed the way laboratory scientists make their careers and do their work. "This book is a rich historical tapestry of people, institutions and scientific ideas. It will stand for a long time as a source of precise and detailed information about an important aspect of the scientific enterprise...It also contains many valuable lessons for the coming years."--John Ziman, Times Higher Education Supplement

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Synopsis

Robert Kohler shows exactly how entrepreneurial academic scientists became intimate "partners in science" with the officers of the large foundations created by John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie, and in so doing tells a fascinating story of how the modern system of grant-getting and grant-giving evolved, and how this funding process has changed the way laboratory scientists make their careers and do their work. "This book is a rich historical tapestry of people, institutions and scientific ideas. It will stand for a long time as a source of precise and detailed information about an important aspect of the scientific enterprise...It also contains many valuable lessons for the coming years."--John Ziman, Times Higher Education Supplement

From the Back Cover

Since the early twentieth century, basic science has gradually come to depend on massive financial support. Universities alone could never have provided the large sums of money required to sustain a rapidly growing number of professional scientists and an ever-greater scale and complexity of scientific research.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publication date
1991
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0226450600
ISBN 13 
9780226450605
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
2
Number of pages
480

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