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Decommissioning science facilities

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Gustav Holmberg

Decommissioning large facilities can be very different from site to site. Some are of course unplanned but there’s also the opposite: decommissiong is planned well in advance. One case is the observatories atop Mauna Kea, involving several countries, a mix … Continue reading →

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Shutting down science

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Gustav Holmberg

I have been given an opportunity to spend some time during the coming months studying the politics and practice of shutting down large-scale scientific facilities. The topic has been in the back of my head or kept in the desk … Continue reading →

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Activism against shutdown: The case of DDO

Posted on December 3, 2008 by Gustav Holmberg

David Dunlap Observatory was inaugurated in 1935 and its 1.8 meter Grupp Parsons reflector was large for its times. The observatory figured prominently in fields such as stellar radial velocities during the mid-20th century (J.B. Hearnshaw, The analysis of starlight: … Continue reading →

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Shutting down science

Posted on November 27, 2008 by Gustav Holmberg

The process of dismantling scientific facilities is an area that I find increasingly interesting. Historians of science are prone to look at the constructive phases: who built what research facilities and when, how where difficulties ovecome in actually getting the … Continue reading →

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