Outline of Big Science
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Big Science.
Big Science – term used by scientists and historians of science to describe a series of changes in science which occurred in industrial nations during and after World War II.
Essence of Big Science[edit]
- Basic research
- Big budgets - Research funding by governments. For example, see Federal grant.
- Big projects (with big staffs) - Genome Project, NASA, CERN etc.
- Big machines - Cyclotron, Space shuttle, ISS, Very Large Array, etc.
- Big laboratories - Bell Labs, Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, PARC, SAP Labs, etc.
Areas of Big Science[edit]
- Military science and military technology
- Physics
- Space exploration
- Life sciences
- Particle Physics (ex: Large Hadron Collider)
- Astronomy (ex: Hubble Space Telescope, other Great Observatories)
History of Big Science[edit]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ Hughes, Jeff (2003). The Manhattan Project: Big Science and the Atom Bomb. Columbia University Press. p. 170. ISBN 978-0-231-13152-0. Search this book on
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