Biography of General Leslie R. Groves

莱斯利·R·格罗夫斯将军的传记

• 批准号: 8910793
• 负责人: Stanley Goldberg
• 金额: $ 4万
• 依托单位: Individual Award
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1989
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1989-08-01 至 1992-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8910793&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Biography; General; Leslie; R.; Groves

The relationship of science and the military and the management of "Big Science" are two themes which have become increasingly important in contemporary science and technology studies in the United States. The paradigm case for both themes is the Manhattan Project for the crash program during World War II to develop the first atomic bomb. While a number of biographies of the leading scientific figures involved in this project have already been produced, there has yet to be an adequate study of the principal military director of the project, General Leslie R. Groves. It is the purpose of Dr. Goldberg to produce such a study. The fact that no scholarly biography of Groves has been written is reason enough to justify such a project. In almost all treatments of Groves, he appears full blown and unexplained, in September, 1942, in the office of the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) Director Vannevar Bush. This biographical study will provide a context for understanding who Leslie R. Groves was and why he was picked to manage development of the atom bomb--one of the largest efforts ever made to mobilize large numbers of scientists and engineers for a single effort. In addition, this biography will be a vehicle for analyzing anew the changing relationships between the military and civilian sectors of the American scientific and technological research communities during and immediately after World War II.

科学与军事的关系和“大科学”的管理是当代美国科学技术研究中日益重要的两个主题。这两个主题的典型案例是曼哈顿计划，即第二次世界大战期间开发第一颗原子弹的坠机计划。虽然已经出版了一些参与这个项目的主要科学人物的传记，但还没有对这个项目的主要军事主管莱斯利·r·格罗夫斯将军进行充分的研究。戈德堡博士的目的就是进行这样一项研究。没有关于格罗夫斯的学术传记的事实足以证明这样一个项目是合理的。1942年9月，在科学研究与发展办公室（OSRD）主任范内瓦尔·布什（Vannevar Bush）的办公室里，在几乎所有关于格罗夫斯的报道中，他显得完全成熟，无法解释。这本传记研究将提供一个背景，让我们了解莱斯利·r·格罗夫斯是谁，以及为什么他被选中来管理原子弹的开发——这是有史以来动员大量科学家和工程师共同努力的最大努力之一。此外，这本传记将成为重新分析二战期间和战后美国科学技术研究界的军事和民用部门之间不断变化的关系的工具。