The Royal Society and the Promotion of Science Since 1960

ISBN-13: 9781108705806 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 355 str.

Peter Collins

Opis

The first synoptic history of how the Royal Society faced up to the challenges of continued relevance from 1960 onwards.

Recenzje

'The Royal Society is a venerable, elite and prestigious organisation that has played a remarkable and often crucial role in the development of science policy and support in the years since the major economic and political crises of the 1960s. That more recent track record has never before been subject to properly detailed historical analysis. An authority both on the workings of the Royal Society and on the changing character of public science and its significance, Peter Collins offers an unprecedentedly well-documented and frank account of the way the Society changed in key periods of transformations in the sciences, their private and public funding, and their place in the social and economic worlds … Using unrivalled access to the principal personalities and to the records of the Society's activities, [he] has produced a book that will be valuable reading for anyone concerned with the political and public condition of British science and its development in the past five decades.' Simon Schaffer, University of Cambridge

Spis treści

1. Presidential politics and postwar priorities; 2. Running UK science? 3. Supporting individual researchers; 4. The applications of science; 5. Defending the science base; 6. Doing science publicly; 7. Science and international politics; 8. Keeping the door open; 9. Europe: competition and collaboration; 10. Doing science globally; 11. Looking outward; Annex: running the Society; Sources; Index.