Hale, George Ellery

For example, George Ellery Hale, James R. Angell, and Robert A. Millikan c ted the productivity of such teams as evidence for the power of cooperation in research, and they called for a similarly coordinated approach to scientific problems in peacetime (1, 2). 

Astronomer George Ellery Hale (1868-1938), educated at MIT, founded Mt. Wilson observatory, 1904, and designed the two-hundred inch (five m) reflecting telescope for Mt. Palomar observatory. 

George Ellery Hale, foreign secretary of the National Academy of Sciences and founding chairman of the U.S. National Research Council, 1918... 

Kevles, Daniel J. George Ellery Hale, the First World War, and the Advancement of Science in America. Isis 59 (1968) 427-37. 

For an American viewpoint, see D.J. Kevles, George Ellery Hale, the First World War and the advancement of science in America, Isis, 59 (1968), 427-437 H. Wright, Explorer of the Universe, A Biography of George E. Hale (New York Dutton, 1966) for a German perspective, see H. Kessler, Walther Rathenau His Life and Work (London, 1929). For a later history of the concept, see Carroll Pursell, The Military-Industrial Complex (New York Holt and Reinhart, 1972). 

Kevles, The Physicists The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America, 102-18, 137-38. War Activities of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, National Academy of Sciences, NAS-NRC Central File, 1919-1923, Division of NRC, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Activities Charles E. Munroe to George Ellery Hale, March 21, 1919, NAS-NRC Central File, 1914-1918, Division of NRC, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Committee on Explosives Investigations, 1919. 

Fig. 4.3 The Caltech triumvirate —physicist Robert A. Millikan (center), astronomer George Ellery Hale (right), and chemist Arthur A. Noyes (left), affectionately known as tinker, thinker, and stinker. The 1929 portrait by Seymour Thomas is prominently displayed in the Caltech Athenaeum, and was photographed by Robert Paz (Courtesy of the Archives, California Institute of Technology)...

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