A Note to the Reader

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Citations and Abbreviations vii
4. A Note to the Reader 1
5. Introduction. Who Is a “Scientist”? 4
6. Chapter One. Nature’s Shifting Audience, 1869– 1875 21
7. Chapter Two. Nature’s Contributors and the Changing of Britain’s Scientific Guard, 1872– 1895 48
8. Chapter Three. Defining the “Man of Science” in Nature 74
9. Chapter Four. Scientific Internationalism and Scientific Nationalism 100
10. Chapter Five. Nature, Interwar Politics, and Intellectual Freedom 123
11. Chapter Six. “It Almost Came Out on Its Own”: Nature under L. J. F. Brimble and A. J. V. Gale 145
12. Chapter Seven. Nature, the Cold War, and the Rise of the United States 170
13. Chapter Eight. “Disorderly Publication”: Nature and Scientific Self- Policing in the 1980s 200
14. Conclusion 228
15. Acknowledgments 243
16. Notes 247
17. Bibliography 285
18. Index 301