Biography of General Leslie R. Groves

科学与军事的关系和“大科学”的管理是美国当代科学技术研究中日益重要的两个主题。这两个主题的典范案例都是曼哈顿项目，该项目是第二次世界大战期间开发第一枚原子弹的撞车计划。虽然参与该项目的一些主要科学人物的传记已经出版，但尚未对该项目的主要军事负责人莱斯利·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被写出来，这一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)主任范尼瓦尔·布什的办公室里，在格罗夫斯的几乎所有治疗中，他似乎完全成熟，而且没有得到解释。这份传记研究将为了解莱斯利·R·格罗夫斯是谁以及为什么选择他来管理原子弹的开发提供背景--原子弹的开发是有史以来动员大量科学家和工程师进行单一努力的最大努力之一。此外，这本传记将成为重新分析第二次世界大战期间和之后美国科技研究界军民关系变化的工具。

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.