According to this excellent book I read: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Backroom-Boys-Secret-Return-British/... Venter also wanted to patent the whole human genome once he'd sequenced it. It was only by a huge and expensive effort by the Wellcome charity that the genome was sequenced…
Seconded, and Backroom Boys [1] by the same author, is very enjoyable, too, even if Red Plenty is really in a league of its own. 1: http://www.amazon.com/The-Backroom-Boys-Secret-British/dp/05...
…(http://bactra.org/notebooks/scientist-fiction.html - see also - https://www.librarything.com/tag/scientist+fiction) and definitely deserves to be read if you have any interest in technology, data, economics. Spufford also wrote The Backroom Boys (https://www.amazon.com/Backroom-Boys-Secret-Return-British/d...) about British tech after WWII, definitely worth a read even if Red Plenty remains unsurpassed. I'll also add the Wayback Machine for…
Several books could be written on the subject. My personal recommendation is Francis Spufford's "Backroom Boys" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/aug/14/featuresreview... A lot of this needs to be seen in the context of post-imperial decline, and (in the 70s at least) serious financial difficulties. We could…
It's not quite what you're asking (more about engineering, and only post-war British projects, from Black Knight to the Beagle probe), but Backroom Boys by Francis Spufford is very interesting. I especially liked the battle to sequence and publish the human genome before Celera could do the same and slap down a patent on it. The story of the development…
根据我读过的这本神作：http://www.amazon.co.uk/Backroom-Boys-Secret-Return-British/... 文特尔在测序完成之后，甚至想把整个人类基因组都申请成专利。完全是因为威康慈善基金会投入了巨资、付出了巨大努力，人类基因组才得以测序……
According to this excellent book I read: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Backroom-Boys-Secret-Return-British/... Venter also wanted to patent the whole human genome once he'd sequenced it. It was only by a huge and expensive effort by the Wellcome charity that the genome was sequenced…
关于这个（以及类似）主题的一本好书：http://www.amazon.co.uk/Backroom-Boys-Secret-Return-British/...
Good book on this (and similar) subjects: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Backroom-Boys-Secret-Return-British/...
附议，而且同一位作者写的《Backroom Boys》[1] 也非常精彩，虽说《Red Plenty》确实是独一档的神作。1: http://www.amazon.com/The-Backroom-Boys-Secret-British/dp/05...
Seconded, and Backroom Boys [1] by the same author, is very enjoyable, too, even if Red Plenty is really in a league of its own. 1: http://www.amazon.com/The-Backroom-Boys-Secret-British/dp/05...
……（http://bactra.org/notebooks/scientist-fiction.html - 还可以参考 - https://www.librarything.com/tag/scientist+fiction），如果你对技术、数据、经济学有任何兴趣，这本书绝对必读。斯普福德还写过一本《The Backroom Boys》（https://www.amazon.com/Backroom-Boys-Secret-Return-British/d...），讲的是二战后的英国技术史，同样绝对值得一读，虽然《Red Plenty》依然是不可超越的巅峰之作。另外我还想把 Wayback Machine 加进……
…(http://bactra.org/notebooks/scientist-fiction.html - see also - https://www.librarything.com/tag/scientist+fiction) and definitely deserves to be read if you have any interest in technology, data, economics. Spufford also wrote The Backroom Boys (https://www.amazon.com/Backroom-Boys-Secret-Return-British/d...) about British tech after WWII, definitely worth a read even if Red Plenty remains unsurpassed. I'll also add the Wayback Machine for…
关于这个话题足足能写好几本书。我个人的推荐是弗朗西斯·斯普福德的《Backroom Boys》https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/aug/14/featuresreview... 很多事情必须放在后帝国时代英国衰落的背景下看待，而且（至少在 70 年代）面临着极其严峻的财政困境。我们本来可以……
Several books could be written on the subject. My personal recommendation is Francis Spufford's "Backroom Boys" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/aug/14/featuresreview... A lot of this needs to be seen in the context of post-imperial decline, and (in the 70s at least) serious financial difficulties. We could…
虽然跟你的提问不完全对口（它更偏工程学，而且只讲二战后的英国项目，从‘黑夜骑士’火箭一直讲到‘猎犬号’火星探测器），但弗朗西斯·斯普福德写的《Backroom Boys》非常引人入胜。我尤其喜欢里面争分夺秒测序并公开发布人类基因组、抢在塞莱拉公司动手前阻止他们申请专利的那场大战。整个研发故事……
It's not quite what you're asking (more about engineering, and only post-war British projects, from Black Knight to the Beagle probe), but Backroom Boys by Francis Spufford is very interesting. I especially liked the battle to sequence and publish the human genome before Celera could do the same and slap down a patent on it. The story of the development…