Outline of Big Science

Short description: Overview of and topical guide to Big Science

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Big Science.

Big Science - term used by scientists and historians of science to describe a series of changes in science which occurred in industrial nations during and after World War II.

## Contents

* 1 Essence of Big Science
* 2 Areas of Big Science
* 3 History of Big Science
* 4 See also
* 5 References
* 6 External links

## Essence of Big Science

* Basic research
* Big budgets - Research funding by governments. For example, see Federal grant.
* Big projects (with big staffs) - Genome Project, NASA, CERN etc.
* Big machines - Cyclotron, Space shuttle, ISS, Very Large Array, etc.
* Big laboratories - Bell Labs, Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, PARC, SAP Labs, etc.

## Areas of Big Science

* Military science and military technology
* Manhattan Project [1]
* Physics
* Shiva laser → Nova laser → National Ignition Facility
* Extreme Light Infrastructure
* Space exploration
* Life sciences
* Human Genome Project
* Human Brain Project
* Particle Physics (ex: Large Hadron Collider)
* Astronomy (ex: Hubble Space Telescope, other Great Observatories)
* Gravitational-wave astronomy

## History of Big Science

* Technology during World War II
* Cold War
* Nuclear arms race
* Space race
* Military funding of science

## See also

* Outline of science
* Outline of natural science
* Outline of physical science
* Outline of earth science
* Outline of formal science
* Outline of social science
* Outline of applied science

## References

1. ↑ Hughes, Jeff (2003). The Manhattan Project: Big Science and the Atom Bomb. Columbia University Press. pp. 170. ISBN 978-0-231-13152-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=5aLqxphU6kMC&dq=The+Manhattan+Project:+Big+Science+and+the+Atom+Bomb,+by+Jeff+Hughes&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result#PPP1,M1.

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