Science at Oxford, 1914-1939 - 9780198206576

Science at Oxford, 1914-1939Transforming an Arts University\nAuthor(s): Jack Morrell\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Clarendon Press\nISBN-13: 9780198206576, 978-0198206576\nSynopsis\nOxford University has not always possessed the high reputation in the sciences for which it is now renowned: it was not until the period between this centurys two world wars that science was firmly established in a university previously noted for its devotion to arts subjects. By 1939, despite only modest increases in the numbers of fellows or undergraduates in science, Oxford had developed an important new research identity. This transformation took place in the face of considerable opposition. The powers of the colleges, the poverty of the University relative to collegiate wealth, and the heightened individualism endemic in a polycratic university combined to produce academic conservatism which even in the early twenties, could argue that Oxford should c.