Volume 37, Number 16 · October 25, 1990
Begetting Big Science
By Daniel J. Kevles
Lawrence and His Laboratory: A History of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Volume I
by J.L. Heilbron, by Robert W. Seidel
University of California Press, 586 pp., $29.95
These days, suspicion of big, federally funded scientific projects is perhaps more widespread than ever, in small part because they sometimes produce fallible technologies—spacecraft that blow up and space telescopes that don't work—and in larger part because the enormous projects—for example, the superconducting supercollider particle accelerator, estimated to cost $8 billion—are highly expensive.
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