- COMMENT
Discovery is always political
Access options
Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals
Get Nature+, our best-value online-access subscription
$29.99 / 30 days
cancel any time
Subscribe to this journal
Receive 51 print issues and online access
$199.00 per year
only $3.90 per issue
Rent or buy this article
Prices vary by article type
from$1.95
to$39.95
Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout
Nature 573, 487-490 (2019)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02848-2
References
Drake, S. Isis 50, 245–254 (1959).
Biagioli, M. Galileo, Courtier: The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism Ch. 2 (Univ. Chicago Press, 1992).
Morus, I. R. When Physics Became King (Univ. Chicago Press, 2005).
Clark, W. Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University (Univ. Chicago Press, 2006).
Cahan, D. An Institute for an Empire: The Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt, 1871–1918 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1989).
Coen, D. R. Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale (Univ. Chicago Press, 2018).
Gordin, M. D. A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table (Basic, 2004).
Kikuchi, Y. Anglo-American Connections in Japanese Chemistry: The Lab as Contact Zone (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
Rigden, J. S. Rabi: Scientist and Citizen 4 (Basic, 1987).
Forman, P. Hist. Stud. Phys. Biol. Sci. 18, 149–229 (1987).
Krige, J. American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe (MIT Press, 2006).
Kaiser, D. Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics Ch. 4 (Univ. Chicago Press, 2005).
Kaiser, D. Hist. Stud. Phys. Biol. Sci. 33, 131–159 (2002).
Oreskes, N. Nature 501, 27–29 (2013).
Wilson, B. Hist. Stud. Nat. Sci. 45, 758–804 (2015).
Moore, K. Disrupting Science: Social Movements, American Scientists, and the Politics of the Military, 1945–1975 (Princeton Univ. Press, 2008).
Mirowski, P. Science-Mart: Privatizing American Science (Harvard Univ. Press, 2011).