Niels Bohr

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• Niels Bohr
• Open science

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• Joseph Rotblat
• Ends with Nazi threat

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• Eugene Rabinowitch
• Franck report (1945)
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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• John von Neumann
• Cold Warrior

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• Edward Teller
• H-bomb proponent

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• J. Robert Oppenheimer
• individual or collective responsibility?

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• Klaus Fuchs
• Secrets passed to Soviet Union

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Mertons Norms

• C
• U
• D
• OS

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Mertons Norms

• C communalism
• U
• D
• OS

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Mertons Norms

• C communalism
• U universalism
• D
• OS

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Mertons Norms

• C communalism
• U universalism
• D disinterestedness
• OS organised scepticism

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Big Science 5 Ms

• Men
• Money
• Machines
• Military
• Media

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• Big Science? CERN

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• Big Science? Hubble Space Telescope

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• Big Science?
• Human genome sequencing

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Big Science

• Alvin Weinberg (1961)
• Derek J. de Solla Price, Little Science, Big
  Science (1963)