Big science : the growth of large-scale research / edited by Peter Galison and Bruce Hevly.

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1992.

xi, 392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Papers from a workshop held at Stanford in 1988.

Introduction : the many faces of big science / Peter Galison -- The origins of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory / Robert Seidel -- Controlling the monster : Stanford and the growth of physics research, 1935-1962 / Peter Galison, Bruce Hevly, and Rebecca Lowen -- Some thoughts on the early history of CERN / Dominique Pestre and John Krige -- Big science and colonialist discourse : building high-energy physics in Japan / Sharon Traweek -- SLAC and big science : Stanford University / W.K.H. Panofsky -- Big science in context : Cornell and MIT / S.S. Schweber -- The biggest kind of big science : astronomers and the space telescope / Robert W. Smith -- Background to history : the transition from little physics to big physics in the Gravity Probe B relativity gyroscope program / C.W.F. Everitt.

DuPont and the management of large-scale research and development / David A. Hounshell -- Mission change in the large laboratory : the Los Alamos implosion program, 1943-1945 / Lillian Hoddeson -- From military research to big science : Lloyd Berkner and science-statesmanship in the postwar era / Allan A. Needell -- K₁S₂ : Korea, science, and the state / Daniel J. Kevles -- Far beyond big science : science regions and the organization of research and development / Robert Kargon, Stuart W. Leslie, and Erica Schoenberger -- Afterword : reflections on big science and big history / Bruce Hevly.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-373) and index.