When big was beautiful
Nicholas Wade, 20 August 1992
Big Science: The Growth of Large-Scale Research
edited by Peter Galison and Bruce Helvy.
Stanford, 392 pp., $45, April 1992,0 8047 1879 2 Show More
edited by Peter Galison and Bruce Helvy.
Stanford, 392 pp., $45, April 1992,
The Code of Codes
edited by Daniel Kevles and Leroy Hood.
Harvard, 397 pp., £23.95, June 1992,0 674 13645 4 Show More
edited by Daniel Kevles and Leroy Hood.
Harvard, 397 pp., £23.95, June 1992,
“... Under the Reagan Administration the United States embarked on a fistful of big science projects, from the space station to the superconducting supercollider and the human genome project. The usefulness of these ventures, by and large, lies in inverse proportion to their cost. The $30,000 million space station will serve little detectable purpose save making work for hungry defence contractors, whereas the $3000 million human genome project could one day allow the history of evolution to be read like a book ... ”
