2001 - CLUEB
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American foundations and large-scale research : construction and transfer of knowledge
xiii, 252 p.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Papers presented to the meeting, Bogliasco (Genoa), 2000.
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ISBN: 8849117299
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SUBJECTS HEADINGS
- Research -- Europe -- International cooperation -- History
- Endowment of research -- Europe -- History
- Endowments -- United States -- History
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In this volume
- Introduction - Aknowledgement
- Philantrophy and the National Security State: The Ford Foundation's Support for Physics in Europe in the 1950s
- Supporting Theoretical Physics for the Third World Development. The Ford Foundation and the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste (1966-1973)
- Support by Rockefeller's International Education Board for the Cooperation of Physics and Mathematics at Göttingen and Paris in the 1920s and 1930s
- The Strategy of Large versus Small Scale Investments, 1930-1960: The Rockefeller Foundation's International Network of Protein Research Projects
- From the Art of Medicine to Biomedical Science in France: Modernization or Americanization?
- Public Health and Research. The Istituto di SanitĂ Pubblica Between Support from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Italian Authorities
- The Pigeon and the Predictor Miscarriage of a Cyborg in Spite of Foundations' Support
- Building Bridges in Science and Societies During the Cold War: the Origins of the International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA)
- The Ford Foundation and Docial Planning in Britain: the Case of the Institute of Community Studies and Family and Kinship in East London
- "Selling the Idea of Cooperation". TYhe US Foundations and the European Components of the "Urban Internazionale" (1920s-1960s)
- Postface