1. Essence of Big Science

2. Areas of Big Science

3. History of Big Science

4. General Big Science concepts

5. Big Science scholars

6. See also

7. References

8. External links

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.

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

External links

• 1916 Cincinnati Reds season
• 1916 Cumberland vs. Georgia Tech football game
• 1916 Danish West Indian Islands sale referendum
• 1916 Detroit Tigers season
• 1916 Eastern Suburbs season
• 1916 Easter Rising
• 1916 Edmonton municipal election
• 1916 Finnish parliamentary election
• 1916 Florida Gators football team
• 1916 Georgia Bulldogs football team
• 1916 Georgia Tech vs. Cumberland football game
• 1916 in Afghanistan
• 1916 in anthropology
• 1916 in architecture
• 1916 in Argentine football
• 1916 in association football
• 1916 in Australia
• 1916 in baseball
• 1916 Indianapolis 300
• 1916 Indianapolis 500
• 1916 in New Zealand
• 1916 in poetry
• 1916 in the UK
• 1916 in the United Kingdom
• 1916 in Wales