Biography of General Leslie R. Groves

科学与军事、管理的关系 “大科学”是两个主题， 在当代科学和技术研究中的重要作用， 美国的 这两个主题的范例是 曼哈顿计划的崩溃计划在第二次世界大战期间， 研制出第一颗原子弹。 虽然一些传记的 参与该项目的主要科学家 虽然已经出版，但还没有充分研究 该项目的主要军事指挥官莱斯利·R. 格罗夫斯。 戈德堡博士的目的是制作这样一个 study. 事实上，没有格罗夫斯的学术传记， 写的理由足以证明这样一个项目。 在几乎 所有对格罗夫斯的治疗，他似乎完全成熟，无法解释， 1942年9月，在科学办公室的办公室里， 研究与开发部（OSRD）主任万尼瓦尔·布什（Vannevar Bush）。 这 传记研究将提供一个背景，了解谁 莱斯利河格罗夫斯是，为什么他被选中管理发展 原子弹的诞生--这是有史以来 动员大批科学家和工程师， 努力 此外，这本传记将是一个工具， 重新分析军方之间不断变化的关系， 美国科技和民用部门 第二次世界大战期间和之后的研究社区。

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.