Science, Technology, and Know-How: Exploitation of German Science and the Challenges of Technology Transfer in the Postwar World
Journal: eScholarship (California Digital Library)
Year: 2014

This dissertation is a comparative study of the American, British, and French efforts to exploit German science and technology following the Second World War, and through this, a transnational history of technology transfer, diplomacy, and science-state interaction in the postwar world. In the wake of the importance of science-based technologies in the Second World War, science became closely linked with diplomacy, scientific expertise took on new meanings and importance in government in each of