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That's cool about your father's funding.
I heard a really interesting talk here at NBER a few years ago about the history of university funding. A century ago, almost all science in academia was funded by the private sector. If I am remembering correctly, not only was government funding scarce, it was seen as potentially problematic because concerns about state control of research, etc. Anyway, that system all fell apart during the Depression when corporate funding dried up. WW2 led to a big influx of government funding for targeted research projects, and after the war, Vannevar Bush got the NSF created.
Can anyone recommend good US science policy histories that won't put me to sleep?