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List of basic Big Science topics

Big Science is a term used by scientists and historians of science to describe a series of changes in science which occurred in industrial nations during and after World War II.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and introduction to Big Science:

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Contents

• 1 Essence of Big Science
• 2 Main focuses of Big Science
• 3 History of Big Science
• 4 Basic Big Science concepts
• 5 Big Science scholars
• 6 Leaders in Big Science
• 7 Big Science lists
• 8 See also
• 9 External links

Essence of Big Science

Main article: Big Science

• Basic research
• Big budgets - Research funding by governments. For example, see Federal grant.
• Big projects (with big staffs) - Genome Project, NASA, CERN etc.
• Big machines - Cyclotron, Space shuttle, ISS, Very Large Array, etc.
• Big laboratories - Bell Labs, Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, PARC, SAP Labs, etc.

Main focuses of Big Science

• Military science and military technology
• Physics
• Space exploration

History of Big Science

Main article: History of Big Science

• Manhattan Project
• Technology during World War II
• Cold War
• Nuclear arms race
• Space race
• Shiva laser → Nova laser → National Ignition Facility

Basic Big Science concepts

• Pharmaceutical company
• United States Department of Energy National Laboratories

Big Science scholars

• JASON Defense Advisory Group

Leaders in Big Science

• United States

Big Science lists

Main article: List of Big Science topics

• List of research institutes

See also

External links

Find more about Big Science on Wikipedia's sister projects: Dictionary definitionsTextbooksQuotationsSource textsImages and mediaNews storiesLearning resources

• Australian Synchrotron
• Diamond UK Synchrotron
• Lightsources.org
• CERN Large Hadron Collider
• Synchrotrons Light Sources of the World
• A Miniature Synchrotron: room-size synchrotron offers scientists a new way to perform high-quality x-ray experiments in their own labs, Technology Review, February 04, 2008
• National Atomic Museum - The Manhattan Project
• Development of the Atomic Bomb
• Nuclear Files.org Information on the history of the Manhattan Project
• The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb from atomicarchive.com
• The Manhattan Project: A New and Secret World of Human Experimentation
• How NASA works.
• NRAO National Radio Astronomy Observatory

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