... that made the project seem essential to the future of the nuclear research center. Based on archival material and background interviews with key players, this article contributes to our understanding of the development of Big Science in the post–Cold War era in western Europe. [email protected]...

.../reprintinfo. asp. DOI: 10.1525/hsns.2011.41.2.179. OLOF HALLONSTEN Growing Big Science in a Small Country: MAX-lab and the Swedish Research Policy System ABSTRACT MAX-lab is a Swedish national synchrotron radiation facility, first established as a small-scale university project in the late 1970s...

... Biological Program (1964–1974). The International Biological Program was seen by its planners as a means to promote Big Science in ecology. As the term Big Science gained currency in the 1960s, the Manhattan Project and the national space program became paradigmatic examples, but the International...

...Mark Bodnarczuk; Lillian Hoddeson During the 1970s and 1980s, the experimental particle physicists at large laboratories responded to the limited funding context of that time. Unlike the "big science" in the postwar decades, when funding for research appeared unlimited and many parameters grew...

.... All rights reserved. 2006 Yoshio Nishina cyclotron nuclear physics Japanese physics big science DONG-WON KIM* Yoshio Nishina and two cyclotrons JAPANESE SCIENTISTS AND historians honor Yoshio Nishina as a father of modern physics in Japan, a founder of modern science in Japan...

... by The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 2006 particle accelerators Australia experimental nuclear physics cyclotron big science R.W. HOME* The rush to accelerate: Early stages of nuclear physics research in Australia MODERN PHYSICS HAD its origins in a few centers...

...DIEGO HURTADO DE MENDOZA; ANA MARIA VARA ABSTRACT Experimental nuclear physics in Argentina entered the era of so-called “big science” with a project to build a 20 MeV tandem-type accelerator for heavy ions. Promoted by the group of nuclear physicists of Argentina's National Atomic Energy...