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Introduction : the many faces of big science / Peter Galison
The origins of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory / Robert Seidel
Controlling the monster : Stanford and the growth of physics research, 1935-1962 / Peter Galison, Bruce Hevly, and Rebecca Lowen
Some thoughts on the early history of CERN / Dominique Pestre and John Krige
Big science and colonialist discourse : building high-energy physics in Japan / Sharon Traweek
SLAC and big science : Stanford University / W.K.H. Panofsky
Big science in context : Cornell and MIT / S.S. Schweber
The biggest kind of big science : astronomers and the space telescope / Robert W. Smith
Background to history : the transition from little physics to big physics in the Gravity Probe B relativity gyroscope program / C.W.F. Everitt.
DuPont and the management of large-scale research and development / David A. Hounshell
Mission change in the large laboratory : the Los Alamos implosion program, 1943-1945 / Lillian Hoddeson
From military research to big science : Lloyd Berkner and science-statesmanship in the postwar era / Allan A. Needell
K₁S₂ : Korea, science, and the state / Daniel J. Kevles
Far beyond big science : science regions and the organization of research and development / Robert Kargon, Stuart W. Leslie, and Erica Schoenberger
Afterword : reflections on big science and big history / Bruce Hevly.
The origins of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory / Robert Seidel
Controlling the monster : Stanford and the growth of physics research, 1935-1962 / Peter Galison, Bruce Hevly, and Rebecca Lowen
Some thoughts on the early history of CERN / Dominique Pestre and John Krige
Big science and colonialist discourse : building high-energy physics in Japan / Sharon Traweek
SLAC and big science : Stanford University / W.K.H. Panofsky
Big science in context : Cornell and MIT / S.S. Schweber
The biggest kind of big science : astronomers and the space telescope / Robert W. Smith
Background to history : the transition from little physics to big physics in the Gravity Probe B relativity gyroscope program / C.W.F. Everitt.
DuPont and the management of large-scale research and development / David A. Hounshell
Mission change in the large laboratory : the Los Alamos implosion program, 1943-1945 / Lillian Hoddeson
From military research to big science : Lloyd Berkner and science-statesmanship in the postwar era / Allan A. Needell
K₁S₂ : Korea, science, and the state / Daniel J. Kevles
Far beyond big science : science regions and the organization of research and development / Robert Kargon, Stuart W. Leslie, and Erica Schoenberger
Afterword : reflections on big science and big history / Bruce Hevly.