1 Editors' Introduction: Institutional Conditions for
Progress and Renewal in Science .............................. 1
Thomas Heinze and Richard Münch
2 Fabricating an Organizational Field for Research: US
Academic Microfabrication Facilities in the 1970s and
1980s ....................................................... 21
Cyrus C.M. Mody
3 From Salomon's House to Synthesis Centers ................... 53
Edward J. Hackett and John N. Parker
4 The Seventh Solvay Conference: Nuclear Physics,
Intellectual Migration, and Institutional Influence ......... 89
Roger H. Stuewer
5 "Preservation of the Laboratory Is Not a Mission." Gradual
Organizational Renev^'al in National Laboratories in
Germany and the USA ........................................ 117
Olof Hallonsten and Thomas Heinze
6 Institutional Context and Growth of New Research Fields.
Comparison Between State Universities in Germany and the
USA ........................................................ 147
Arlette Jappe and Thomas Heinze
7 Organizing Space: Dutch Space Science Between Astronomy,
Industry, and the Government ............................... 183
David Baneke
8 "We Will Learn More About the Earth by Leaving It than by
Remaining on It." NASA and the Forming of an Earth
Science Discipline in the 1960s ............................ 211
Roger D. Launius
9 Interdisciplinary Research and Transformative Research as
Facets of National Science Policy .......................... 243
Irwin Feller
Index ......................................................... 275
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