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Scientist as a Government Employee: Prepared for the President'S Scientific Research Board. (1947)

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Suggested Citation:"Scientist as a Government Employee: Prepared for the President'S Scientific Research Board.." National Research Council. 1947. Scientist as a Government Employee: Prepared for the President'S Scientific Research Board.. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18654.
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INTRODUCTION President Truman, on October 12, 1946, created a Scientific Research Board for the purpose of reviewing current and proposed scientific research and development activities in which the Federal Government was involved and to review similar non-Federal activities with a view to advising him on various aspects of this activity so that Federal policy could be more clearly developed, Throughout the President's Executive Order, providing for such a Board, there was a special emphasis on the proble^ of scientific personnel. During the course of its activities, the chairman of the Board and his advisors requested assistance from a number of Federal agencies and groups within the Government. In the field of scientific personnel, within the Government, requests for assistance were made to the Advisory Committee on Scientific Personnel, This committee had been established by the Civil Service Commission as its advisor on matters affecting the scien- tist serving as a Federal employee under Civil Service. A request came from the President's Scientific Research Board to the Advisory Committee directly and a request to the Civil Service Commission for similar information was referred to the Advisory Committee on Scientific Personnel. This request was for a general discussion of the scientist as a Federal employee and the problems associated from the service of scientists in the Federal Government* The Advisory Committee on Scientific Personnel has throughout its history given much thought to the effect on scientific research and other scientific activities of the great Federal structure within which they operate. The magnitude of the Government structure obviously requires numbers of regulatory agenciss and actions. Scientific research, on the other hand, is an activity most impatient with restraint. The Advisory Committee on Scien- tific Personnel welcomed the opportunity to crystallize some of its thinking on this problem and has done so in the report attached. It has been prepared by the independent action of various individuals associated with the Advisory Committee on Scientific Personnel, The opinions expressed, nevertheless, reflect closely the thinking of the members of the Advisory Committee on Scien- tific Personnel, In view of the fact that the various sections were prepared independently, a certain amount of duplication and reiteration was inevitable. However, it is felt that such reitera- tion will merely lend emphasis to the points discussed. M. H, Trytten, Chairman Advisory Committee on.Scientific Personnel I1CIIVBI Library National Academy cf Sciences National Research Council WASHING! or; 2r-, D. c.

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