A research institute is an establishment endowed for doing research Research can be defined as the search for knowledge or any systematic investigation to establish facts. The primary purpose for applied research is discovering, interpreting, and the development of methods and systems for the advancement of human knowledge on a wide variety of scientific matters of our world and the universe. Research can use the. Research institutes may specialize in basic research or may be oriented to applied research. Although the term often implies scientific Science is a systematic enterprise of gathering knowledge about nature and organizing and condensing that knowledge into testable laws and theories. As knowledge has increased, some methods have proved more reliable than others, and today the scientific method is the standard for science. It includes the use of careful observation, experimentation, research, there are also many research institutes in the social sciences The social sciences are the fields of academic scholarship that explore aspects of human society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences. These include: anthropology, archaeology, economics, geography, history, linguistics, political science, international as well, especially for sociological Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—that uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop and refine a body of knowledge about human social activity, often with the goal of applying such knowledge to the pursuit of social welfare. Subject matter and historical History is the study of the human past. Scholars who write about history are called historians. It is a field of research which uses a narrative to examine and analyse the sequence of events, and it sometimes attempts to investigate objectively the patterns of cause and effect that determine events. Historians debate the nature of history and its research purposes such as the Institute of Historical Research. Some research institutes are associated with public education museums A museum is a building or institution that houses and cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities throughout the world and more local ones exist such as the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute is a not-for-profit oceanographic research center in Moss Landing, California affiliated with the Monterey Bay Aquarium. It was founded in 1987 by David Packard of Hewlett-Packard fame. Scientists, engineers, and institute staff conduct a large variety of research projects ranging from studies on the.[1]
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Famous research institutes
The earliest research institutes were the astronomical observatory An observatory is a location used for observing terrestrial and/or celestial events. Astronomy, climatology/meteorology, geology, oceanography and volcanology are examples of disciplines for which observatories have been constructed. Historically, observatories were as simple as containing an astronomical sextant or Stonehenge (which has some complexes set up by medieval Muslim astronomers In the history of astronomy, Islamic astronomy or Arabic astronomy refers to the astronomical developments made in the Islamic world, particularly during the Islamic Golden Age , and mostly written in the Arabic language. These developments mostly took place in the Middle East, Central Asia, Al-Andalus, and North Africa, and later in the Far East. They were built for the purpose of housing large astronomical instruments and for scientific research staff carrying out astronomical research and observations Observation is either an activity of a living being , consisting of receiving knowledge of the outside world through the senses, or the recording of data using scientific instruments. The term may also refer to any data collected during this activity. The first of these research institutes was the 9th-century Baghdad Baghdad is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate, with which it is coterminous. Having a municipal population estimated between 7 and 7.5 million, it is the largest city in Iraq and the second largest city in the Arab World (after Cairo, Egypt) observatory built during the time of the Abbasid The Abbasid Caliphate was the third of the Islamic Caliphates of the Islamic Empire [disambiguation needed]. It was ruled by the Abbasid dynasty of caliphs, who built their capital in Baghdad after overthrowing the Umayyad caliphs from all but Al Andalus caliph al-Ma'mun Abū Jaʿfar Abdullāh al-Māʾmūn ibn Harūn (September 13, 786 – August 9, 833) (المأمون) was an Abbasid caliph who reigned from 813 until his death in 833. He succeeded his brother al-Amin, though the most famous were the 13th-century Maragheh observatory Maragheh observatory is an ancient astronomical observatory, which was established in 1259 by Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, an Iranian scientist and astronomer. Located in the heights west of Maragheh, East Azarbaijan province, Iran, it was once considered one of the most prestigious observatories in the world.[citation needed] and 16th-century Istanbul observatory of al-Din.[2]
Another early research institute was Tycho Brahe Tycho Brahe , born Tyge Ottesen Brahe (de Knudstrup), was a Danish nobleman known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations. Coming from Scania, then part of Denmark, now part of modern-day Sweden, Tycho was well known in his lifetime as an astronomer and alchemist's Uraniborg complex on the island of Hven, a 16th-century astronomical Astronomy is a natural science that deals with the study of celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the Earth's atmosphere (such as the cosmic background radiation). It is concerned with the evolution, physics, chemistry, meteorology, and motion of celestial objects, as well as the formation and development of the universe laboratory set up to make highly-accurate measurements of the stars. In the United States ^ b. English is the de facto language of American government and the sole language spoken at home by 80% of Americans age five and older. Spanish is the second most commonly spoken language there are numerous notable research institutes including Bell Labs Bell Laboratories is the research and development organization of Alcatel-Lucent and previously of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T), The Scripps Research Institute[3] and SRI International SRI International, founded as Stanford Research Institute, is one of the world's largest contract research institutes. Based in the United States, the trustees of Stanford University established it in 1946 as a center of innovation to support economic development in the region. It was later incorporated as an independent non-profit organization.
Research Institutes in Early Modern Europe
From the throes of the Scientific Revolution In the history of science, the scientific revolution was a period when new ideas in physics, astronomy, biology, human anatomy, chemistry, and other sciences led to a rejection of doctrines that had prevailed starting in Ancient Greece and continuing through the Middle Ages, and laid the foundation of modern science. According to a majority of came the seventeenth century The 17th century was the century which lasted from 1601 to 1700 in the Gregorian calendar scientific academy. In France Louis XIV Louis XIV , known as the Sun King[why?] (French: le Roi Soleil), was King of France and of Navarre. His reign, from 1643 to his death in 1715, began at the age of four and lasted seventy-two years, three months, and eighteen days, and is the longest documented reign of any European monarch founded the Académie Royale des Sciences The French Academy of Sciences is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research. It was at the forefront of scientific developments in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is one of the earliest academies of sciences in 1666 Year 1666 was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar) which came after private academic assemblies had been created earlier in the seventeenth century to foster research. In London, the Royal Society The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, is a learned society for science, and is possibly the oldest such society in existence. Founded in November 1660, it was granted a Royal Charter by King Charles II as the "Royal Society of London". The Society was initially an was founded.
In the early eighteenth century However, Western historians may sometimes specifically define the 18th century otherwise for the purposes of their work. For example, the "short" 18th century may be defined as 1715–1789, denoting the period of time between the death of Louis XIV of France and the start of the French Revolution with an emphasis on directly Peter the Great Peter I the Great or Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov (9 June [O.S. 30 May] 1672 – 8 February [O.S. 28 January] 1725) ruled Russia and later the Russian Empire from 7 May [O.S. 27 April] 1682 until his death, jointly ruling before 1696 with his weak and sickly half-brother, Ivan V established an educational-research institute to be built in his newly created imperial capital, St Petersburg Saint Petersburg (Russian: Са́нкт-Петербу́рг , tr. Sankt-Peterburg, IPA [ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk]) is a city and a federal subject (a federal city) of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city's other names were Petrograd (Russian: Петроград, IPA [pʲɪtrɐˈgrat], 191. His plan combined provisions for linguistic, philosophical and scientific instruction with a separate academy in which graduates could pursue further scientific research. It was the first institution of its kind in Europe to conduct scientific research within the structure of a university. The St Petersburg Academy was established by decree on 28th January 1724[4].
Scientific Research in Twentieth Century America
Research institutes came to emerge at the beginning of the twentieth century. In 1900, at least in Europe and the United States, the scientific profession had only evolved so far as to include the theoretical implications of science and not its application. Research scientists had yet to establish a leadership in expertise. Outside of scientific circles it was generally assumed that a person in an occupation related to the sciences carried out work which was necessarily "scientific" and that the skill of the scientist did not hold any more merit than the skill of a labourer. A philosophical position on science was not thought by all researchers to be intellectually superior to applied methods. However any research on scientific application was limited by comparison. A loose definition attributed all naturally occurring phenomena to "science". The growth of scientific study stimulated a desire to reinvigorate the scientific discipline by robust research; in order to extract "pure" science from such broad categorisation[5].
1900-1939
This began with research conducted autonomously away from public utility and governmental supervision. Enclaves for industrial investigations became established. These included the Rockefeller Institute, Carnegie Institution of Washington The Carnegie Institution for Science (also called the Carnegie Institution of Washington ) is an organization in the United States established to support scientific research and the Institute for Advanced Study The Institute for Advanced Study, located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States, is a center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. The Institute is perhaps best known as the academic home of Albert Einstein, John von Neumann, and Kurt Gödel, after their immigration to the United States. Other famous scholars who have worked at the. Research was advanced in both theory and application. This was aided by substantial private donation[6].
1940 Onwards
The expansion of universities into the faculty of research fed into these developments as mass education produced mass scientific communities. A growing public consciousness of scientific research brought public perception to the fore in driving specific research developments. After the Second World War Albania · Australia · Austria · Azerbaijan · Belarus · Belgium · Brazil · Bulgaria · Burma · Cambodia · Canada · Ceylon (Sri Lanka) · Channel Islands · China · Czechoslovakia · Denmark · Dutch East Indies · Egypt · Estonia · Finland · France · Germany · Gibraltar · Greece · Greenland · Hong Kong · Hungary · Iceland · and the Atom Bomb A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or a combination of fission and fusion. Both reactions release vast quantities of energy from relatively small amounts of matter; a modern thermonuclear weapon weighing little more than a thousand kilograms can produce an explosion specific research threads were followed: environmental pollution and national defense[7].
Footnotes
- ^ Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Official Site
- ^ E. S. Kennedy (1962), "Reviewed Work: The Observatory in Islam and Its Place in the General History of the Observatory by Aydin Sayili", Isis Isis is an academic journal published by University of Chicago Press. It focuses on the history of science, history of medicine, and the history of technology, as well as their cultural influences, featuring both original research articles as well as extensive book reviews and review essays 53 (2): 237-239.
- ^ The Scripps Research Institute
- ^ History of Universities: 1994, Volume 13, Peter Denley, Oxford University Press.1995, p142 ISBN 9780198205319
- ^ http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-_Bb0TwJ8uoC&pg=PA221&dq=%22research+institute%22+history&lr=&as_brr=3#v=onepage&q=%22research%20institute%22%20history&f=false "Science in America, a documentary history, 1900-1939", The Chicago history of science and medicine, Ida H. Reingold, University of Chicago Press.1981 ISBN 9780226709468
- ^ http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-_Bb0TwJ8uoC&pg=PA221&dq=%22research+institute%22+history&lr=&as_brr=3#v=onepage&q=%22research%20institute%22%20history&f=false "Science in America, a documentary history, 1900-1939", The Chicago history of science and medicine, Ida H. Reingold, University of Chicago Press.1981 ISBN 9780226709468
- ^ http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-_Bb0TwJ8uoC&pg=PA221&dq=%22research+institute%22+history&lr=&as_brr=3#v=onepage&q=%22research%20institute%22%20history&f=false "Science in America, a documentary history, 1900-1939", The Chicago history of science and medicine, Ida H. Reingold, University of Chicago Press.1981 ISBN 9780226709468
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Q. Specifically dealing with social and policy research, if that makes a difference.
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A. I'm not sure there is a specific distinction between the activity that those two bodies carry out. However, in my experience the term "center" is more often used when referring to an academic research body (e.g. a policy school at a university whose professors or even students produce research), and "institute" is more widely used for nonprofits that are mostly nonpartisan and whose staff carries out research on a regular basis. I'd say that the actual research produced by an academic center is obviously more in the form of white papers and journal submissions, and independent nonprofits often prepare research reports that are more appealing to a broader audience. Either way, both academic centers and freestanding organizations are usually… [cont.]
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