TY - JOUR
T1 - The superconducting super collider's frontier outpost, 1983-1988
AU - Hoddeson, Lillian
AU - Kolb, Adrienne W.
N1 - Funding Information:
This article is based on our contributions to a collaborative work in progress by Michael Riordan, Lillian Hoddeson, Adrienne Kolb, Robert Jacobs, Glenn Sandiford, and Steven C. Weiss, Tunnel Visions: the Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider. The project is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the University of Illinois Campus Research Board, the Universities Research Association, the American Institute of Physics Center for History of Physics, the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Weiss, who is writing a popular
Funding Information:
98 It was sponsored by the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society and hosted by the state of Colorado and a group of Colorado universities and industries. The proceedings, ‘SSC Status Report to the Nation’, reprinted numerous talks by physicists, politicians, and administrators expressing their views of the wide-ranging benefits of building the SSC.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - In 1993, after an optimistic beginning followed by a half-decade of conflict, the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) project was abandoned. In an era of 'Big Science', a major scientific enterprise collapsed. Why? We employ the metaphor of the 'frontier outpost' to analyse a critical moment in the history of this vastly expensive project, when the physicists who designed the machine were forced to recognize that traditional post-war scientific values were no longer in harmony with government priorities.
AB - In 1993, after an optimistic beginning followed by a half-decade of conflict, the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) project was abandoned. In an era of 'Big Science', a major scientific enterprise collapsed. Why? We employ the metaphor of the 'frontier outpost' to analyse a critical moment in the history of this vastly expensive project, when the physicists who designed the machine were forced to recognize that traditional post-war scientific values were no longer in harmony with government priorities.
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U2 - 10.1023/A:1026569616118
DO - 10.1023/A:1026569616118
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:0039751890
VL - 38
SP - 271
EP - 310
JO - Minerva
JF - Minerva
SN - 0026-4695
IS - 3
ER -