Command and control

Sandra Knapp
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Nature, 2008, vol. 453, issue 7196, 721-722

Abstract: A biography of botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker illustrates how science switched in the nineteenth century from being a hobby of aristocrats to a profession paid for by governments.

Date: 2008
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