Alvin M Weinberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 682389 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alvin M Weinberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alvin M |
| FAMILY NAME | Weinberg |
| SIGNATURE | WEINBERG A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oak Ridge Associated Universities |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
On “immortal” nuclear power plants
Criteria for Scientific Choice (Minerva, I (2), (1962), 158–171)
Scientific millenarianism
Special Lecture: Scientific Millenarianism
Edward Shils and the ?Governmentalisation? of science
Chapters from the life of a technological fixer
Technology and democracy
The Strategic Defense Initiative: Shield or Snare
The Strategic Defense Initiative, arms control, and the Ethos of the University
A Department of Science, 1985 version
The sanctification of Hiroshima
The Nuclear Connection: A Reassessment of Nuclear Power and Nuclear Proliferation
This book presents papers on nuclear power. Topics considered include prospects for commercial nuclear power and proliferation, the front end of the fuel cycle, the back end of the fuel cycle, national policy issues, non-proliferation policy, safeguards, controls, sanctions, and nuclear energy and proliferation (a longer perspective)
Commentary on Goggin's Article
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Values in science: Unity as a criterion of scientific choice
Stabilizing Star Wars
An orderly replacement of offensive with defensive nuclear weapons is part of the defense-protected build-down (DPB) strategy described by Weinberg and Barkenbus. Differing from the administration's Star Wars approach by relying on interceptor missiles rather than costly and unproven lasers and particle beams, the plan also calls for a simultaneous freeze on offensive weapons. (DCK)
On the Relation Between Information and Energy Systems A Family of Maxwell's Demons
Maxwell's Demon uses information to save free energy. However, as Brillouin has shown, the energy required by the demon in acquiring information just equals the energy he saves. Modern microprocessor controls on internal combustion engines are macroscopic Maxwell demons. They increase engine efficiency by continuously optimizing operating parameters. The market system is a social Maxwell demon; by sending price signal to the consumer, it causes h…
Entropy: A New World View
Technological optimism
The obligations of citizenship in the republic of science
The use of the breeder reactor
The Limits of Science and Trans-Science
Many different limits to science have been identified, the most common being those between science and religion, or more generally between fact and value; between science and art; as well as the sociological limits imposed on science because it is becoming too large and unwieldy to be encompassed by a single mind. Here another realm is explored, lying beyond science: we call trans-science those questions which epistemologically are matters of fac…
Institutions and strategies in the planning of research
I A useful institution of the republic of science
Science and trans-science
The economic benefits of basic research
Criteria for scientific choice
Reflections on Big Science
Science and trans-science
Can Technology Replace Social Engineering
The article examines the extent of remedies that can be offered by technology for social problems. The methods on how Technological Fix solved the two profound social problems, poverty and war, are explained. Other technologies that can reduce complicated social problems and does not require individuals to renounce short-term advantage for long-term gain such as intra-uterine device for birth control are discussed, as well as the problems that ha…
Criteria for scientific choice II: The two cultures
Chapters from the life of a technological fixer
Stabilizing Star Wars
An orderly replacement of offensive with defensive nuclear weapons is part of the defense-protected build-down (DPB) strategy described by Weinberg and Barkenbus. Differing from the administration's Star Wars approach by relying on interceptor missiles rather than costly and unproven lasers and particle beams, the plan also calls for a simultaneous freeze on offensive weapons. (DCK)
The obligations of citizenship in the republic of science
On “immortal” nuclear power plants
Edward Shils and the ?Governmentalisation? of science
The Strategic Defense Initiative: Shield or Snare
The Limits of Science and Trans-Science
Many different limits to science have been identified, the most common being those between science and religion, or more generally between fact and value; between science and art; as well as the sociological limits imposed on science because it is becoming too large and unwieldy to be encompassed by a single mind. Here another realm is explored, lying beyond science: we call trans-science those questions which epistemologically are matters of fac…
Nuclear Energy: A Prelude to H. G. Wells' Dream
The complexity of scientific choice
Criteria for scientific choice
Criteria for scientific choice II: The two cultures
Higher Education in India
Scientific choice and biomedical science
Scientific choice, basic science and applied missions
The complexity of scientific choice
Currents and Soundings: From the Professional Stream
The growth of science in society
Can Technology Replace Social Engineering
The article examines the extent of remedies that can be offered by technology for social problems. The methods on how Technological Fix solved the two profound social problems, poverty and war, are explained. Other technologies that can reduce complicated social problems and does not require individuals to renounce short-term advantage for long-term gain such as intra-uterine device for birth control are discussed, as well as the problems that ha…
Scientific choice and the scientific muckrakers: Review article
Reflections on Big Science
The economic benefits of basic research
Nuclear Energy: A Prelude to H. G. Wells' Dream
The Interaction of Science and Technology
I A useful institution of the republic of science
Science and trans-science
Institutions and strategies in the planning of research
The Limits of Science and Trans-Science
Many different limits to science have been identified, the most common being those between science and religion, or more generally between fact and value; between science and art; as well as the sociological limits imposed on science because it is becoming too large and unwieldy to be encompassed by a single mind. Here another realm is explored, lying beyond science: we call trans-science those questions which epistemologically are matters of fac…
The obligations of citizenship in the republic of science
The use of the breeder reactor
Technological optimism
Entropy: A New World View
On the Relation Between Information and Energy Systems A Family of Maxwell's Demons
Maxwell's Demon uses information to save free energy. However, as Brillouin has shown, the energy required by the demon in acquiring information just equals the energy he saves. Modern microprocessor controls on internal combustion engines are macroscopic Maxwell demons. They increase engine efficiency by continuously optimizing operating parameters. The market system is a social Maxwell demon; by sending price signal to the consumer, it causes h…
Commentary on Goggin's Article
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Values in science: Unity as a criterion of scientific choice
Political science (31 works) · Law (23 works) · Law (21 works) · Higher education (20 works) · Engineering (14 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Engineering ethics (7 works) · Physics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works)