Abstract

David P.D. Munns earned his Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University in 2003 working on a soon to be book entitled The Radio Astronomers: the history of an international scientific community. Currently an Assistant Professor at John Jay College in New York, he remains focused on issues of trans-national and interdisciplinary knowledge systems and technologies in recent history. Department of History, John Jay College, CUNY. 445 W.59th St. New York, NY. 10019. E-mail: dmunns@ jjay.cuny.edu. This work was partly supported by a grant from the Rockefeller Archives Center, North Tarrytown, NY. He would like to express his gratitude to Andrew Warwick, Abigail Woods, Nicolas Rasmussen, and Sharon Kingsland for their ideas about this project, as well as to various anonymous referees. Particular thanks to Angela Creager and Gregory Barton for their insightful readings and comments. The following abbreviations are used CIT: California Institute of Technology; CSIRO: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation; NAA: National Archives of Australia; NLA: National Library of Australia; RAC: Rockefeller Archives Center.

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