The Human Factor

摘要

Science Policy Up Close traces the high points of John Marburger's career from president of Stony Brook University to director of Brookhaven National Laboratory, and later, science advisor to President George W. Bush. The book, focused, as Marburger put it, on "policy in action," is part retrospective on science policy and part memoir laced with biographical information and speeches. It is inconsistent in structure and content, by necessity, due to his death in 2011 after completing the first two chapters. At Marburger's request, his longtime colleague Robert Crease, professor of philosophy at Stony Brook University, completed the book by ably editing materials from Marburg-er's speeches, writings, and interviews, and providing context and commentary through introductions to the material in the remaining four chapters.