Science, Politics and the Public Good: Essays in Honour of Margaret Gowing

Abstract

Margaret Gowing - an appreciation, Lord Bullock science and government - John Phillips (1800-74) and the early ordnance geological survey of Britain, J.Morrell science and the public good - George Biddell Airy (1801-92) and the concept of a scientific civil servant, A.Chapman the road to Albertpolis - Richard Owen (1804-92) and the founding of the British Museum of Natural History, N.A.Rupke sonar, wireless telegraphy and the Royal Navy - scientific development in a military context, 1890-1939, W.Hackmann the Rockefeller Foundation and the German biomedical sciences, 1920-40 - from educational philanthropy to international science policy, P.Weindling science and power in the Soviet Union, D.Holloway forty years into the atomic age, Sir Rudolph Peierls radiation, language and logic, L.Arnold labour and the origins of the National Health Service, C.Webster economists and engineers, A.Cairncross public history in the United States - a retrospective appraisal, R.Hewlett postscript, M.Howard. A list of the published work of Margaret Gowing.

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