Science, politics and the public good : essays in honour of Margaret Gowing / edited by Nicolaas A. Rupke.

Table of Contents

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

Includes index