The University of Chicago was the site of a remarkable ideological alignment after World War II. Its chancellor, Robert Maynard Hutchins, was one of mid-century America’s fiercest critics of science and of the moral stature of scientists. His administration nevertheless forged a détente with Chicago’s physical scientists in the process of establishing the Institutes for Basic Research, which consolidated the personnel and resources the Manhattan Project had brought to campus. Chicago’s left-leaning group of scientists and administrators then made common cause with a series of conservative industrial interests in order to fund the new institutes, on the basis that industry had an obligation to support basic research. This intersection of otherwise divergent ideological strands exposes the institutional malleability of patronage relationships in the years after World War II.

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简单而勇敢的课程：芝加哥大学基础研究的工业赞助，1945-1953

芝加哥大学是二战后显着的意识形态联盟的所在地。它的校长罗伯特·梅纳德·哈钦斯 (Robert Maynard Hutchins) 是本世纪中叶美国对科学和科学家道德地位最激烈的批评者之一。尽管如此，他的政府在建立基础研究所的过程中与芝加哥的物理科学家达成了缓和，该研究所整合了曼哈顿计划为校园带来的人员和资源。芝加哥的左倾科学家和管理人员团体随后与一系列保守的工业利益集团达成共同目标，以资助新的研究所，其基础是工业界有义务支持基础研究。