Working Conference on the History of Big Science, August 25-28, 1988, in Palo Alto, California

“大科学”，其中科学研究最典型的必须是 由一个庞大的科学家和技术人员团队进行， 它通常是围绕着极其昂贵的 和大型仪器已经成为某些科学的一部分， 个世纪 18世纪和19世纪的伟大探险 19世纪--例如，达尔文的贝格尔号航行，或者 刘易斯和克拉克探险或发现的航程 库克船长在南太平洋--在某种意义上是“大”的 科学”项目。 19世纪建造的大型望远镜 20世纪初是另一种“大科学”。" 然而，当前大科学的范式是由 高能物理中的巨型粒子加速器 在 然而，事实上，大科学正在变得无处不在， 科学和它已经变得越来越清楚，建立一个 更有效的科学政策，我们需要更好地理解 “大科学”如何运作以及它如何影响社会 科学组织。 科学史学家越来越感兴趣的是， 自二战以来，大科学的发展，现在有一个 一大批学者正在研究这一领域的课题。 彼得·盖里森博士，这一研究领域的领导者之一， 科学史，组织了一次工作会议， 为了比较和综合几个不同的研究结果， 案例研究。 从这些案例研究中，他希望讨论 方法问题和这项工作的更广泛影响， 并将科学管理者和历史学家聚集在一起， 商业和技术与科学历史学家，以 在这个问题上获得更广泛的视角。 会议将 将于8月25日至27日在斯坦福大学举行。 结果将 被公开.

"Big Science" in which scientific research most typically must be carried out by a large team of scientists and technicians and which frequently is organized around extraordinarily expensive and large instruments has been a part of some sciences for centuries. The great expeditions of exploration of the 18th and 19th centuries -- Darwin's voyage on the Beagle, for example, or the Lewis and Clarke Expedition or the voyages of discovery of Captain Cooke in the South Pacific -- are in a sense "big science" projects. The large telescopes built in the 19th and early 20th centuries represent another kind of "big science." The current paradigm of big science, however, is represented by the giant particle accelerators in high energy physics. In truth, however, big science is becoming pervasive throughout science and it has become increasingly clear that to establish a more effective policy for science, we need a better understanding how "big science" works and how it affects the social organization of science. Historians of science have increasingly become interested in the development of big science since World War II and there is now a substantial group of scholars at work on topics in this area. Dr. Peter Galison, one of the leaders of this area of study in the history of science, has organized a working conference in order to compare and synthesize findings from several different case studies. From these case studies, he hopes to discuss methodological issues and the wider implications of this work, and to bring together science administrators and historians of business and technology with historians of science in order to gain a broader perspective on this problem. The conference will be held August 25 to 27 at Stanford University. The results will be published.