The American Occupation and German Science, 1945-1949

卡西迪博士正在研究美国政策对二战后美国在德国占领区的科学研究性质和组织的影响。这个项目主要关注通过德国的分裂、陷入冷战和1949年联邦共和国的建立而占领的军事阶段。该项目结合了现有的美国对美国政策的观点，最近德国对德国科学组织早期历史的调查，以及最近可用的德国和美国档案资源，以实现对美国和西德科学迄今为止研究较少的主题的更全面的描述。与此同时，这项研究为战后美国政策制定者对基础科学的定位以及美国在战后德国和欧洲所扮演的角色提供了新的视角，无论是在战后德国和欧洲的最初几年，还是在现在正迅速接近尾声的时期。

Dr. Cassidy is examining the impact of US policy on the nature and organization of scientific research in the post-World War II American occupation zone of Germany. This project focuses on the military phase of occupation through the division of Germany, the descent into Cold War, and the founding of the Federal Republic in 1949. The project combines available American perspectives on US policy, recent German surveys of the early history of German science organization, and recently available German and American archival resources to achieve a fuller account of the hitherto little researched subject of the US and West German science. At the same time, this study lends new perspectives on the orientation of post-war US policy makers toward basic science and the US role in post-war Germany and Europe, both during the early years of a period that is now rapidly drawing to a close.