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SUMMARY:How US science moved west: Boulder\, Colorado and the development 
 of US space sciences in mid-20th century America - Joe Bassi (University o
 f Texas\, El Paso)
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CONTACT:Richard Staley
DESCRIPTION:From being considered a 'scientific Siberia' in the 1940s\, Bo
 ulder as a scientific centre represented an important transition of US sci
 ence as it 'moved west' in the 20th century. The answer to this question l
 ies in the complex confluence of individual scientific ambitions relating 
 to sun-earth connection research\, the pre and early Cold War context of s
 cience in the US\, and political machinations at various levels of governm
 ent. This presentation lays out the early phases of this transition proces
 s\, and particularly focuses on the efforts of solar astronomer Walter Orr
  Roberts\, Colorado Senator 'Big Ed' Johnson\, the Boulder Chamber of Comm
 erce\, and others in bringing sun-earth science to Boulder in the late 194
 0s and early 1950s. This investigation thereby sheds some light on the pro
 cess by which scientific/academic centres (or 'peaks') were created in the
  US west in the 20th century.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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