Industrial Chemistry and its Changing Patrons at the University of Liverpool, 1926-1951
@article{Horrocks2007IndustrialCA, title={Industrial Chemistry and its Changing Patrons at the University of Liverpool, 1926-1951}, author={S. Horrocks}, journal={Technology and Culture}, year={2007}, volume={48}, pages={43 - 66} }
This paper examines how the orientation of British universities to national problems during and immediately after World War II impacted their existing networks of local support. It draws on a range of archival material to examine how state support both reshaped the links between an individual university department and its existing industrial sponsors and destabilized its position within the university. The Department of Industrial Chemistry at the University of Liverpool is the focus of this… CONTINUE READING
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