Lloyd Berkner, Merle Tuve, and the Federal Role in Radio Astronomy

Needell, Allan A.

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“…Allan Needell's work on the confrontation between Tuve and Berkner over the NRAO correctly presents Tuve as adhering to a style of little science largely idealized in the face of Berkner's vision of scientific opportunity under the federal umbrella. 15 The clash's severity involved not only opposition between big science and little science over scale, practitioners, and federal dependence, but a challenge by astronomy to physics as science's hegemonic methodology.…”

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If we build it, who will come? Radio astronomy and the limitations of “national” laboratories in Cold War America

Munns¹

2003

Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences

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If we build it, who will come? Radio astronomy and the limitations of “national” laboratories in Cold War America

Munns¹

2003

Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences

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“…Gorter (1951) in the opening address at a conference on radio-frequency spectroscopy attended by Townes. 2 Most of the recent historical scholarship on mid-twentiethcentury physics and related sciences has engaged with such questions primarily. Thus: Baracca (1989Baracca ( , 1993, Bromberg (1991), Cassidy (1994), Dennis (1994b), DeVorkin (1989DeVorkin ( , 1992DeVorkin ( , 1995, Doel (1995), Eckert and Osietzki (1989), Schubert (1986), FefFer (1992), Forman (1987Forman ( , 1989Forman ( , 1992Forman ( , 1995a, Galison (1988), , Galison, Hevly, and Lowen (1992), Gillmor (1986Gillmor ( , 1989, Goldberg (1989), Heilbron (1989) Hevly (1987Hevly ( , 1995, Kevles (1990Kevles ( , 1992, Krige (1995), Leslie (1993), Needell (1987aNeedell ( , 1987bNeedell ( , 1989Needell ( , 1993Needell ( , 1995, Orwell (1991), Ordonez and Sanchez Ron (1995), Pestre (1990Pestre ( , 1992Pestre ( , 1994, Pickering (1989aPickering ( , 1989bPickering ( , 1989c, …”

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"Swords into ploughshares": Breaking new ground with radar hardware and technique in physical research after World War II

Forman

1995

Rev. Mod. Phys.

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A survey is offered of applications to fundamental physical research, in the years immediately following World War II, of the instrumentalities developed for radar during that war. Attention is given to radar astronomy and radio astronomy, linear and cyclical accelerators, microwave spectroscopy, molecular beams, nuclear magnetic resonance, electron paramagnetic and ferromagnetic resonance, measurements of resistivity at high frequencies in metals and of second sound in helium II, and to the concepts of information and signal-to-noise ratio as basic to the design and analysis of experiments. In conjunction with this survey, consideration is given to the autonomy of physics as a knowledge-producing enterprise, framed as a question of continuity in research directions. As that question implies a baseline, the survey of postwar applications is preceded by a survey of those prewar directions of physical research requiring the highest available radio frequencies. Some 500 references are given.

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A New Era in Radio Astronomy

2020

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By the early 1950s the US Department of Defense, especially the Navy, and the newly created National Science Foundation (NSF) began to play a major role in American science, especially in astronomy. Meanwhile, Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI), which founded and operated the Brookhaven National Laboratory, was looking for new business. During these Cold War times, the United States could not afford to fall behind in the exciting and rapidly developing new area of radio astronomy. Caltech, MIT, Harvard, and Naval Research Laboratory scientists discussed how to get the United States more involved in this emerging field that had clear commercial and military applications as well as extraordinary opportunities for basic research. Two key conferences held at the end of 1953 and the start of 1954 provided the catalyst for an NSF-funded feasibility study aimed toward the goal of establishing a national radio astronomy facility.

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Lloyd Berkner, Merle Tuve, and the Federal Role in Radio Astronomy

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If we build it, who will come? Radio astronomy and the limitations of “national” laboratories in Cold War America

If we build it, who will come? Radio astronomy and the limitations of “national” laboratories in Cold War America

"Swords into ploughshares": Breaking new ground with radar hardware and technique in physical research after World War II

A New Era in Radio Astronomy

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