Science Policy Up Close / John H. Marburger III.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marburger III, John H., Author.

Contributor:

Crease, Robert P., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marburger, John H., III (John Harmen), 1941-2011.

Marburger, John H.

Science and state--United States.

Science and state.

Science--Political aspects--United States.

Science.

Science consultants--United States--Biography.

Science consultants.

Physicists--United States--Biography.

Physicists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a career that included tenures as president of Stony Brook University, director of Brookhaven National Laboratory, and science advisor to President George W. Bush, John Marburger (1941–2011) found himself on the front line of battles that pulled science ever deeper into the political arena. From nuclear power to global warming and stem cell research, science controversies, he discovered, are never just about science. Science Policy Up Close presents Marburger’s reflections on the challenges science administrators face in the twenty-first century. In each phase of public service Marburger came into contact with a new dimension of science policy. The Shoreham Commission exposed him to the problem of handling a volatile public controversy over nuclear power. The Superconducting Super Collider episode gave him insights into the collision between government requirements and scientists’ expectations and feelings of entitlement. The Directorship of Brookhaven taught him how to talk to the public about the risks of conducting high-energy physics and about large government research facilities. As Presidential Science Advisor he had to represent both the scientific community to the administration and the administration to the scientific community at a time when each side was highly suspicious of the other. What Marburger understood before most others was this: until the final quarter of the twentieth century, science had been largely protected from public scrutiny and government supervision. Today that is no longer true. Scientists and science policy makers can learn from Marburger what they must do now to improve their grip on their own work.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. The Shoreham Commission

2. The Superconducting Super Collider and the Collider Decade

3. Managing a National Laboratory

4. Presidential Science Advisor I: Advice and Advocacy in Washington

5. Presidential Science Advisor II: Measuring and Prioritizing

6. The Science and Art of Science Policy

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

9780674967465

0674967461

9780674735934

0674735935

OCLC:

897600511