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SUMMARY:“Scientists are worse than other professors”: Industrial Patro
 nage of Academic Research in the Early Cold War
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DESCRIPTION:Joseph D. Martin\, University of Cambridge\nThe quote in the t
 itle is courtesy of Robert Maynard Hutchins\, the young\, imperious presid
 ent of the University of Chicago\, who oversaw the development of the uni
 versity’s scientific research infrastructure after World War II. Hutchi
 ns considered scientists to be eminently susceptible to the corrupting in
 fluence of funders’ interests. It seems surprising\, then\, that he cha
 mpioned a plan to fund the university’s Institutes for Basic Research (I
 BRs) by appeal to industrial patrons\, to the exclusion of federal suppor
 t. Why did Hutchins and his science faculty—otherwise often at loggerhe
 ads—agree that industrial patronage offered a better possibility of aca
 demic freedom? And why was industry so willing to give liberally to the IB
 Rs\, even in the absence of the promise of any specific benefits? Through
  this and other examples— notably the Phoenix Project at the University
  of Michigan\, a peaceful nuclear research programme that doubled as a wa
 r memorial—this talk examines the unexpected ideological alignments amo
 ng university administrators\, academic scientists\, and industrial patron
 s\, that shaped the development of critical research infrastructure in ea
 rly Cold War America.\n\nJoseph D. Martin is a teaching associate at the D
 epartment of History and Philosophy of Science\, University of Cambridge\
 , and the incoming editor-in-chief of Physics in Perspective. He earned h
 is PhD in the history of science and technology at the University of Minne
 sota in 2013. Before coming to Cambridge\, he taught at Colby College and
  Michigan State University and held a National Science Foundation researc
 h fellowship at the Consortium for History of Science\, Technology\, and 
 Medicine. His research addresses the history of the science of materials\
 , through which he confronts questions about how the institutions that con
 trol the flow of scientific knowledge formed and evolved. His book\, Soli
 d State Insurrection: How the Science of Substance Made American Physics 
 Matter appears this September from the University of Pittsburgh Press.
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