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Simone Turchetti

Isis 97 (1):1-27 (2006)

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Atomic secrets and governmental lies: nuclear science, politics and security in the Pontecorvo case Winner, BSHS Singer Prize . I would like to thank Jeff Hughes and Jon Agar for advice and criticism. I am grateful also to the CHSTM staff and students for support and exchange of ideas. I am indebted to the archivists at the PRO and at the Churchill College Archive Centre for their help. Finally I am most grateful to the Laboratorio Scienza Epistemologia e Ricerca . This paper is based on a research project funded by the CHSTM and the ESRC jointly. [REVIEW]Simone Turchetti - 2003 - British Journal for the History of Science 36 (4):389-415.details This paper focuses on the defection of nuclear physicist Bruno Pontecorvo from Britain to the USSR in 1950 in an attempt to understand how government and intelligence services assess threats deriving from the unwanted spread of secret scientific information. It questions whether contingent agendas play a role in these assessments, as new evidence suggests that this is exactly what happened in the Pontecorvo case. British diplomatic personnel involved in negotiations with their US counterparts considered playing down the case. Meanwhile, the (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 6 citations
Of `Small Men', Big Science and Bigger Business: The Second World War and Biomedical Research in the United States. [REVIEW]Nicolas Rasmussen - 2002 - Minerva 40 (2):115-146.details The Second World War is commonly said to have ushered in theera of `big science' in the United States. However, at least inpractically-oriented biomedical research, the American governmentadopted modes of sponsorship that were commonplace between scientistsand industry before the war. Furthermore, many life scientistsleading wartime projects were already familiar with industrialcollaboration. This essay argues that the new federal regimes introduced in the late 1940s and 1950s were more important than wartime experience in shaping the character of biomedical `big science' in (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 8 citations

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