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  1. Constructing a Landscape for Postwar Science: Roger Revelle, the Scripps Institution and the University of California, San Diego.Ronald Rainger - 2001 - Minerva 39 (3):327-352.
    This paper explores Roger Revelle's activities in oceanography and institution-building during and after the Second World War. In particular, it explores his shift from a wartime acceptance of science serving mission-oriented objectives, to a defence ofthe distinction between basic and applied science. For Revelle, the Federal government, and especially the military, became theguarantor of basic research in oceanography. This understanding led him to privilege military sponsorship over contract research,and the physical over the biological sciences. He drew upon that understanding to (...)
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  • The oceanography of the pacific: George F. McEwen, H. U. Sverdrup and the origin of physical oceanography on the west coast of North America. [REVIEW]Eric L. Mills - 1991 - Annals of Science 48 (3):241-266.
    By comparison with the Atlantic Ocean, the physical oceanography of the Pacific was poorly known as late as the end of the 1930s. International collaboration to study the Pacific, attempted by oceanography committees of the Pacific Science Association, was a failure, owing to the scale of the enterprise, the low scientific abilities of the Pacific nations, and the lack of a compelling need. Even in the U.S.A., where the Scripps Institution of Oceanography was active, lack of good ships and personnel (...)
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  • Scientific change, emerging specialties, and research schools.Gerald L. Geison - 1981 - History of Science 19 (43 pt 1):20-40.
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  • In Search of the New Biology: An Epilogue.Frederick B. Churchill - 1981 - Journal of the History of Biology 14 (1):177 - 191.
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  • Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics.Peter Galison (ed.) - 1997 - University of Chicago Press: Chicago.
    Engages with the impact of modern technology on experimental physicists. This study reveals how the increasing scale and complexity of apparatus has distanced physicists from the very science which drew them into experimenting, and has fragmented microphysics into different technical traditions.
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  • Contrasts in Scientific Style: Research Groups in the Chemical and Biochemical Sciences.Joseph S. Fruton - 1991 - Journal of the History of Biology 24 (3):546-548.
     
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