Rebecca S Lowen
Biographic Data
| ID | 982443 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca S Lowen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca S |
| FAMILY NAME | Lowen |
| SIGNATURE | LOWEN R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Metropolitan State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Recombinant University
Reviewed by: The Recombinant University: Genetic Engineering and the Emergence of Stanford Biotechnology by Doogab Yi Rebecca Lowen (bio) The Recombinant University: Genetic Engineering and the Emergence of Stanford Biotechnology. By Doogab Yi. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. 318. $40. In 1980, the federal government granted a patent for recombinant DNA technology to two academic scientists, biochemist Herbert Boyer of the Univers…
Nuclear Forces
In the late 1980s the Cornell University physicist Hans Bethe invited Silvan S. Schweber to write his biography, granting him extensive interviews and privileged access to letters and personal writings. Nuclear Forces is Schweber's second of the two volumes inspired by that invitation. It explores Bethe's life up to 1939, when Bethe was just thirty-three. The United States was not yet at war with Germany, and American scientists, including Bethe,…
Fred Terman at Stanford
Reviewed by: Fred Terman at Stanford: Building a Discipline, a University, and Silicon Valley Rebecca Lowen (bio) Fred Terman at Stanford: Building a Discipline, a University, and Silicon Valley. By C. Stewart Gillmor. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. xiii+642. $70. Frederick Terman is an ideal subject for a biography. Not a particularly interesting person in his own right, Terman merits attention as an exemplar of the post-…
The More Things Change
I first read The Emergence of the American University as a graduate student nearly twenty years ago while contemplating writing a dissertation on patronage and the post-1945 university. I have consulted it innumerable times since, and I remain impressed by its ambitious scope, careful research, and elegant prose. Lawrence R. Veysey did his doctoral work at the University of California at Berkeley in the late 1950s and early 1960s and I have alway…
Cold War Laboratory
Reviewed by: Cold War Laboratory: RAND, the Air Force, and the American State, 1945–1950 Rebecca S. Lowen (bio) Cold War Laboratory: RAND, the Air Force, and the American State, 1945–1950. By Martin J. Collins. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002. Pp. xviii+278. $34.95. In March 1946, the U.S. Army Air Forces placed a contract with Douglas Aircraft for a study to determine the best system for conducting long-range air warfare. P…
For Better or for Worse
In his first book, the well-received Shadow of a Star (1997), Alfred Mann, professor emeritus of physics at the University of Pennsylvania, described the quest for evidence of neutrinos, a search in which he had participated. Mann's ability to write about complicated matters in a simple yet intelligent manner was amply demonstrated in that volume, and is shown again in For Better or for Worse, in which he ventures into the history of science and …
Creating the Cold War University
Journal Article Creating the Cold War University: The Transformation of Stanford. By Rebecca S. Lowen. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xii, 316 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-520-20541-3.) Get access Daniel Lee Kleinman Daniel Lee Kleinman Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March 1998, Pages 1581–1582, https…
Creating the Cold War University
The Road to Love Canal
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 269 ning of higher-count yarns and the more extensive production of synthetic and blended fabrics. Some firms have exploited their assets to diversify into ancillary forms of manufacturing, such as cosmetics and brake linings, or into entirely different types of economic activi ties, such as warehousing and real estate management. Through a cooperatively negotiated process of specialization, diversification, a…
The Road to Love Canal
Science, Technology, and the Environment
656 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE the structure of the book is laid out, contains not a single endnote. We find the Frankfurt school mentioned on page 4, but no discus sion (or citation) of how to use that theory follows. The theoretical basis of Hollywood in the Information Age is defined by what Wasko does not accept; in only four single sentences does she lay out her approach. This is a work of Marxist political economy. We read lament …
Science, Technology, and the Environment
Science at Harvard University
Research and Relevant Knowledge
Millikan's School
Written in honour of its centenary, this history of Caltech explores its contribution to science and technology by providing profiles of its most famous scientists, such as von Karman in aeronautics, Morgan in biology, Gutenberg in seismology, Noyes in physical chemistry and Epstein in physics
Millikan's School
188 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Millikan’s School: A History of the California Institute of Technology. By Judith R. Goodstein. New York: W. W. Norton, 1991. Pp. 317; illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $25.00. Published to coincide with the one hundredth anniversary of the California Institute of Technology, and prefaced with short, boosterish remarks by the current and former presidents of the institute, Millikan’s School is clea…
Exploiting a wonderful opportunity
Partners in Science
Journal Article Partners in Science: Foundations and Natural Scientists, 1900–1945. By Robert E. Kohler. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. xvi + 415 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-226-45060-0.) Get access Partners in Science: Foundations and Natural Scientists, 1900–1945. By Kohler Robert E.. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. xvi + 415 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-226-45060-0.) Rebecca S. Lowen Rebecca S. Lowen Johns Hopkins University Search for…
Transforming the University
Rebecca S. Lowen, Transforming the University: Administrators, Physicists, and Industrial and Federal Patronage at Stanford, 1935-49, History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Autumn, 1991), pp. 365-388
Entering the Atomic Power Race
Journal Article Entering the Atomic Power Race: Science, Industry, and Government Get access Rebecca S. Lowen Rebecca S. Lowen REBECCA S. LOWEN is a doctoral candidate at Stanford University. She is writing a dissertation on the relationship between Stanford University, high technology industry, and the federal government. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 102, Issue 3, Fa…
Creating the Cold War University
Journal Article Creating the Cold War University: The Transformation of Stanford. By Rebecca S. Lowen. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xii, 316 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-520-20541-3.) Get access Daniel Lee Kleinman Daniel Lee Kleinman Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March 1998, Pages 1581–1582, https…
Creating the Cold War University
The More Things Change
I first read The Emergence of the American University as a graduate student nearly twenty years ago while contemplating writing a dissertation on patronage and the post-1945 university. I have consulted it innumerable times since, and I remain impressed by its ambitious scope, careful research, and elegant prose. Lawrence R. Veysey did his doctoral work at the University of California at Berkeley in the late 1950s and early 1960s and I have alway…
Transforming the University
Rebecca S. Lowen, Transforming the University: Administrators, Physicists, and Industrial and Federal Patronage at Stanford, 1935-49, History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Autumn, 1991), pp. 365-388
Entering the Atomic Power Race
Journal Article Entering the Atomic Power Race: Science, Industry, and Government Get access Rebecca S. Lowen Rebecca S. Lowen REBECCA S. LOWEN is a doctoral candidate at Stanford University. She is writing a dissertation on the relationship between Stanford University, high technology industry, and the federal government. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 102, Issue 3, Fa…
Exploiting a wonderful opportunity
Entering the Atomic Power Race
Journal Article Entering the Atomic Power Race: Science, Industry, and Government Get access Rebecca S. Lowen Rebecca S. Lowen REBECCA S. LOWEN is a doctoral candidate at Stanford University. She is writing a dissertation on the relationship between Stanford University, high technology industry, and the federal government. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 102, Issue 3, Fa…
Transforming the University
Rebecca S. Lowen, Transforming the University: Administrators, Physicists, and Industrial and Federal Patronage at Stanford, 1935-49, History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Autumn, 1991), pp. 365-388
Exploiting a wonderful opportunity
Partners in Science
Journal Article Partners in Science: Foundations and Natural Scientists, 1900–1945. By Robert E. Kohler. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. xvi + 415 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-226-45060-0.) Get access Partners in Science: Foundations and Natural Scientists, 1900–1945. By Kohler Robert E.. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. xvi + 415 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-226-45060-0.) Rebecca S. Lowen Rebecca S. Lowen Johns Hopkins University Search for…
Millikan's School
Written in honour of its centenary, this history of Caltech explores its contribution to science and technology by providing profiles of its most famous scientists, such as von Karman in aeronautics, Morgan in biology, Gutenberg in seismology, Noyes in physical chemistry and Epstein in physics
Millikan's School
188 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Millikan’s School: A History of the California Institute of Technology. By Judith R. Goodstein. New York: W. W. Norton, 1991. Pp. 317; illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $25.00. Published to coincide with the one hundredth anniversary of the California Institute of Technology, and prefaced with short, boosterish remarks by the current and former presidents of the institute, Millikan’s School is clea…
Science at Harvard University
Research and Relevant Knowledge
Science, Technology, and the Environment
656 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE the structure of the book is laid out, contains not a single endnote. We find the Frankfurt school mentioned on page 4, but no discus sion (or citation) of how to use that theory follows. The theoretical basis of Hollywood in the Information Age is defined by what Wasko does not accept; in only four single sentences does she lay out her approach. This is a work of Marxist political economy. We read lament …
Science, Technology, and the Environment
The Road to Love Canal
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 269 ning of higher-count yarns and the more extensive production of synthetic and blended fabrics. Some firms have exploited their assets to diversify into ancillary forms of manufacturing, such as cosmetics and brake linings, or into entirely different types of economic activi ties, such as warehousing and real estate management. Through a cooperatively negotiated process of specialization, diversification, a…
The Road to Love Canal
Creating the Cold War University
Journal Article Creating the Cold War University: The Transformation of Stanford. By Rebecca S. Lowen. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xii, 316 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-520-20541-3.) Get access Daniel Lee Kleinman Daniel Lee Kleinman Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March 1998, Pages 1581–1582, https…
Creating the Cold War University
For Better or for Worse
In his first book, the well-received Shadow of a Star (1997), Alfred Mann, professor emeritus of physics at the University of Pennsylvania, described the quest for evidence of neutrinos, a search in which he had participated. Mann's ability to write about complicated matters in a simple yet intelligent manner was amply demonstrated in that volume, and is shown again in For Better or for Worse, in which he ventures into the history of science and …
Cold War Laboratory
Reviewed by: Cold War Laboratory: RAND, the Air Force, and the American State, 1945–1950 Rebecca S. Lowen (bio) Cold War Laboratory: RAND, the Air Force, and the American State, 1945–1950. By Martin J. Collins. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002. Pp. xviii+278. $34.95. In March 1946, the U.S. Army Air Forces placed a contract with Douglas Aircraft for a study to determine the best system for conducting long-range air warfare. P…
Fred Terman at Stanford
Reviewed by: Fred Terman at Stanford: Building a Discipline, a University, and Silicon Valley Rebecca Lowen (bio) Fred Terman at Stanford: Building a Discipline, a University, and Silicon Valley. By C. Stewart Gillmor. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. xiii+642. $70. Frederick Terman is an ideal subject for a biography. Not a particularly interesting person in his own right, Terman merits attention as an exemplar of the post-…
The More Things Change
I first read The Emergence of the American University as a graduate student nearly twenty years ago while contemplating writing a dissertation on patronage and the post-1945 university. I have consulted it innumerable times since, and I remain impressed by its ambitious scope, careful research, and elegant prose. Lawrence R. Veysey did his doctoral work at the University of California at Berkeley in the late 1950s and early 1960s and I have alway…
Nuclear Forces
In the late 1980s the Cornell University physicist Hans Bethe invited Silvan S. Schweber to write his biography, granting him extensive interviews and privileged access to letters and personal writings. Nuclear Forces is Schweber's second of the two volumes inspired by that invitation. It explores Bethe's life up to 1939, when Bethe was just thirty-three. The United States was not yet at war with Germany, and American scientists, including Bethe,…
The Recombinant University
Reviewed by: The Recombinant University: Genetic Engineering and the Emergence of Stanford Biotechnology by Doogab Yi Rebecca Lowen (bio) The Recombinant University: Genetic Engineering and the Emergence of Stanford Biotechnology. By Doogab Yi. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. 318. $40. In 1980, the federal government granted a patent for recombinant DNA technology to two academic scientists, biochemist Herbert Boyer of the Univers…
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