Science and the Navy : the History of the Office of Naval Research.

Addressing all those interested in the history of American science and concerned with its future, a leading scholar of public policy explains how and why the Office of Naval Research became the first federal agency to support a wide range of scientific work in universities. Harvey Sapolsky shows tha...

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Main Author: Sapolsky, Harvey M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:Princeton legacy library.
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