Format:
1 online resource (255 pages)
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Diagramme
ISBN:
9783030500498
Series Statement:
Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology Ser.
Content:
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: History and Politics of Big Science in Europe -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: What Kind of Europe for European Big Science? -- 2.1 The Other Europe -- 2.1.1 Technology -- 2.1.2 Spatiality -- 2.1.3 Politics -- 2.2 What Role for the European Economic Union (EEC) and the European Union (EU)? -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: History and Science of Research with Synchrotron Radiation -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Founding the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), 1977-1988 -- 4.1 Origins of the ESRF -- 4.2 Intergovernmental Arrangements -- 4.3 Putting the ESRF in Place -- 4.4 The Role of France and Germany -- 4.4.1 "Embedded Bilateralism" -- 4.4.2 National Agendas in France and Germany -- 4.5 Towards a Convention for the ESRF -- 4.6 Concluding Discussion -- Bibliography -- ESRF Archive, Grenoble, France -- Archives Nationales de France, Paris, France -- Bundesarchiv, Koblenz, Germany -- Legal/Governmental Documents -- Literature -- Chapter 5: Establishing the European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser (European XFEL), 1992-2009 -- 5.1 The Transformation of DESY -- 5.2 The TESLA Proposal for a Linear Collider -- 5.3 From the Free-Electron Laser at the TESLA Test Facility to FLASH -- 5.4 Political Commitment to the European XFEL -- 5.5 Foreign Partners and In-Kind Contributions -- 5.6 The Role of Russia -- 5.6.1 German-Russian Collaborations in Science -- 5.6.2 Nanotechnology, Big Politics and the European XFEL -- 5.7 Towards a Convention -- 5.8 Concluding Discussion -- Bibliography -- Bundesarchiv, Koblenz, Germany -- DESY Archive, Hamburg, Germany (Chronological Order) -- Legal/Governmental Documents (Chronological Order) -- References -- Miscellaneous -- Chapter 6: The Other Europe of Big Science: Historical Dynamics and Contemporary Tendencies.
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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
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Dissertation Universität Konstanz 2018
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030500481
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Cramer, Katharina C. A political history of big science Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020 ISBN 9783030500511
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030500481
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
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General works
Keywords:
Europäische Union
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Forschungspolitik
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Großforschung
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Europäische Synchrotronstrahlungsanlage
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European XFEL GmbH
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Hochschulschrift