Project files. Phase III: ground-based astronomy, materials science, heavy-ion and nuclear physics, medical physics, and computer-mediated collaborations, 1992-1998.

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Project files. Phase III: ground-based astronomy, materials science, heavy-ion and nuclear physics, medical physics, and computer-mediated collaborations, 1992-1998.

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These administrative records cover the third phase and last phase of the study which addressed the fields of ground-based astronomy, materials science, heavy-ion and nuclear physics, medical physics, and computer-mediated collaborations. Twenty-one collaborations were selected to serve as case studies and an additional three were selected for the computer-mediated category. A conscious effort was made to look toward the future which, for the most part, meant that the case studies may not have published research findings. This effort also inspired the inclusion of the computer-mediated category of collaborations in which new techniques of computer science and the technology provide a core aspect of the research; these new strategies offer glimpses into the design of future scientific collaborations. Altogether 78 interviews with scientists who could serve as "informants" were conducted; interview transcripts were anallyzed for historical and archival information. The work of sociologists was integrated into the historical and archival efforts; in particular, the sociological team analyzed all project interviews and produced a typology for multi-institutional collaborations. Finally, the project staff conducted numerous site visits to Federal science agencies and the National Archives and Records Administration to discuss archival issues and records policies. Project staff: Joan Warnow-Blewett, project director; Spencer. Weart, associate project director; Joel Genuth, project historian; Anthony Capitos, project archivist; Ivan Chompalov, project sociologist; and Wesley Shrum, consulting sociologist.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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American Institute of Physics. Center for History of Physics. Study of Multi-Institutional Collaborations.

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Genuth, Joel

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Weart, Spencer R., 1942-....

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Spencer R. Weart, born in 1942, received a B.A. in Physics at Cornell University in 1963 and a Ph. D. in Physics and Astrophysics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1968. He then worked for three years at CalTech as a Fellow of the Mt. Wilson and Palomar Observatories, publishing papers in leading scientific journals. In 1971 Dr. Weart changed his field, enrolling as a graduate student in the History Department of the University of California, Berkeley. In 1974 he took up his present pos...

Warnow-Blewett, Joan

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Shrum, Wesley, 1953-

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