| The visioneers: How a group of elite scientists pursued space colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a limitless future WP McCray Princeton University Press, 2013 | 252 | 2013 |
| MBE deserves a place in the history books WP McCray Nature nanotechnology 2 (5), 259-261, 2007 | 193 | 2007 |
| Will small be beautiful? Making policies for our nanotech future WP McCray History and Technology 21 (2), 177-203, 2005 | 173 | 2005 |
| Giant telescopes: Astronomical ambition and the promise of technology WP McCray Harvard University Press, 2006 | 95 | 2006 |
| Groovy science: knowledge, innovation, and American counterculture D Kaiser, WP McCray University of Chicago Press, 2019 | 80 | 2019 |
| Keep Watching the Skies!: The Story of Operation Moonwatch and the Dawn of the Space Age WP McCray Princeton University Press, 2008 | 67 | 2008 |
| Large telescopes and the moral economy of recent astronomy WP McCray Social studies of science 30 (5), 685-711, 2000 | 67 | 2000 |
| From lab to iPod: A story of discovery and commercialization in the post-cold war era WP McCray Technology and Culture 50 (1), 58-81, 2009 | 44 | 2009 |
| Amateur scientists, the International Geophysical year, and the ambitions of Fred Whipple WP McCray Isis 97 (4), 634-658, 2006 | 44 | 2006 |
| How spintronics went from the lab to the iPod WP McCray Nature Nanotechnology 4 (1), 2-4, 2009 | 35 | 2009 |
| How astronomers digitized the sky WP McCray Technology and Culture, 908-944, 2014 | 29 | 2014 |
| ‘Globalization with hardware’: ITER’s fusion of technology, policy, and politics WP McCray History and Technology 26 (4), 283-312, 2010 | 26 | 2010 |
| Making art work: How Cold War engineers and artists forged a new creative culture WP McCray MIT Press, 2020 | 23 | 2020 |
| What Makes a Failure?: Designing a New National Telescope, 1975-1984 WP McCray Technology and Culture 42 (2), 265-291, 2001 | 22 | 2001 |
| The biggest data of all: Making and sharing a digital universe WP McCray Osiris 32 (1), 243-263, 2017 | 21 | 2017 |
| Project vista, caltech, and the dilemmas of Lee Dubridge WP McCray Historical studies in the physical and biological sciences 34 (2), 339-370, 2004 | 16 | 2004 |
| Futures perfect and visioneering: A re-assessment WP McCray NanoEthics 11, 203-207, 2017 | 5 | 2017 |
| Keep Watching the Skies! WP McCray Keep Watching the Skies!, 2008 | 5* | 2008 |
| Viewing America's Bomb Culture: The Atomic Testing Museum. Las Vegas, Nevada WP McCray The Public Historian 28 (1), 152-155, 2006 | 5 | 2006 |
| Beyond the Hubble space telescope: early development of the next generation space telescope RW Smith, W Patrick McCray Astrophysics in the Next Decade: The James Webb Space Telescope and …, 2009 | 4 | 2009 |
David KaiserSTS and Physics, MITVerified email at mit.edu
