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From page 671... ... ABCC (see NRC, Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission) A-bomb (see atom bomb) Read the entire page →
From page 672... ... American Association of-Scientific Workers, 447 American Association of University Professors, 220 American Cancer Society, 472 American Chemical Journal, 179 American Chemical Society, 116n American Committee to Aid Russian Scientists with Scientific Literature, 264n, 265, 265n American Council of Learned Societies, 244, 264n, 486, 529 American Council on Education, 528 American Federation of Labor, 256 American Geographical Society, 293,325 American Geological Institute, Mission 66 Committee, 293n American Geophysical Union, 267, 314, 328, 329, 329n American Historical Association, 188n American Indians, 299, 299n American Institute of Nutrition, 259n American Journal of Science and Arts, 24,35, 45, 69, 120, 157, 177n American Metrological Society, 117n American Miscellaneous Society, 558, 560-561 American Naturalist, 141 n, 177n, 78n American Oriental Society, 244 American Philosophical Society, 6, 7, 11, 14, 21, 25-26, 40n, 45, 52, 66-68, 107, 286 American Relief Administration, 264 American Shore and Beach Preservation Association, 293 American Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, 6 American Society of Biological Scientists, 576 American Society of Civil Engineers, 355 American Telephone and Telegraph Co., 384 American University (see also universities) , 336 America's Resources of Specialized Talent, 530 Annual of Scientific Discovery, 35, 35n Annual Tables of Constants and Numerical Data, 268 Antisubmarine Warfare Operation Research Group, 417 anthropological sciences, 140, 158 Anthropological Society, 116n Anthropometric Society, 140n Applied Physics Laboratory (see Johns Hopkins University) Read the entire page →
From page 673... ... BEAR Committees (see NAS, Committees on Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation) Bell Telephone Company, 384 Bell Telephone Laboratories, 384 Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 202 Bikini, hydrogen bomb test accident, 496 biochemistry (see physical sciences) Read the entire page →
From page 674... ... Cold War, 480, 544, 563, 564 College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 8-9 Transactions, 9 Colonial Fellows (see Royal Society) Columbia Historical Society, 116n Columbia River Basin, development, 357 Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences, 11-13 Commission on Human Resources and Advanced Training, 530 Committee for a National Science Foundation, 458, 465 Committee for Hungarian Refugee Relief, 545 Committee on Aeronautics, 461n Committee on Atomic Energy, 461n Committee on Discovery and Development of Scientific Talent, 449 Committee on Electronics, 461n Committee on Geographical Exploration, 461n Committee on Geophysical Sciences,461n Committee on Guided Missiles, 461n Committee on International Exchange of Persons, 529-530 Committee on Isthmian Canal, 97n Committee on Postwar Research, 436 Committee on Publication of Scientific Information, 449 Committee on Science and Public Welfare, 449 Committee Supporting the Bush Report, 457 Commonwealth Fund (see also General Education Board) Read the entire page →
From page 675... ... , 341, 356, 543 Assistant Secretary for Science and Technology, 543-544 Bureau of Public Roads, 259, 543 Bureau of Statistics, 115 Maritime Administration, 543 Minerals Division transfer, 356 National Bureau of Standards, 81, 171, 172, 182, 186, 336, 338, 355-356, 375, 393, 403, 478, 541-544, 564 metric system advocacy, 172 Visiting Committee, 355, 542 Office of Technical Services, 543 Patent Office, 10, 40, 48, 89, 115, 225, 543 ; Department of Commerce and Labor, 182n Department of Defense, 461, 527, 528, 542, 549, 551, 564 Joint Chiefs of Staff, 461 Joint Committee on New Weapons and Equipment, 461 Department of Science, 146, 146n, 147, 147n, 151, 151n, 174, 175n, 183n, 251 Department of State, 63, 510, 511, 513, 514 International Science Policy Survey Group, 511 International Science Steering Committee, 511 science community liaison, 512 Superintendent of Patents, 10 Department of the Army, 402, 403, 438, 439, 445, 549 Bureau of Ordnance, 228 Medical Department, 115 Department of the Interior,131,146,490 Bureau of Fisheries, 501, 507 Bureau of Indian Affairs, 299, 300n Bureau of Mines, 232, 243, 356 General Land Of rice, 11, 40, 12~129, 131 topographical maps and charts, 127133 U.S. Geological Survey, 11, 12~127, 131-133, 14~147, 147n, 148, 160, 160n, 167n, 168, 282, 356, 583 Department of the Navy, 40, 51, 81, 86, 364, 375, 392, 397, 402, 435, 437, 438, 440, 441, 445, 461-462, 487488, 490, 498, 527, 549 Bureau of Aeronautics, 510 Bureau of Navigation, 50, 81, 84-86, 115 Bureau of Steam Engineering, 115 Hydrographic Office, 50, 115, 14 147, 501 Medical Department, 115 Nautical Almanac Office, 50 Nautical Almanac, 106, 115 Naval Observatory, 40, 50, 78, 89, 90, 106, 145 Office of Naval Research, 445, 462, 464, 480, 488, 502, 504, 507, 527, 531, 558, 564 Advisory Committee, 440n Naval Research Advisory Committee, 463, 567 Department of the Treasury, 148 Depression (see Great Depression) Read the entire page →
From page 676... ... geological time measurements,313,313n, 457n George Washington Memorial Association, 188 education, 142 engineering and research, 428 postwar science, 428, 428n scientists, 427, 428 U-boats, 208, 217, 229, 427 uranium research, 422 V-1, V-2 rockets, 413, 426n, 427 World War I, 217, 241 Girard College, Pa., 22, 26 global plate tectonics (see physical sciences) Grand Canyon, Yarspai Station, 292 grants-in-aid, 366, 451, 468, 531 Great Britain (see also NAS, Committees on Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation) Read the entire page →
From page 677... ... Industrial Research Institute, 345, 345n industry-government-academic laboratories interrelationships, 233, 341, 464 insecticides, 411 Inter-Allied Conference on International Scientific Organizations, 240 _ ~ interferometry, 282 International Association of Academies, 163, 178-179, 185, 195, 241, 314 International Association of Physical Oceanography, 505n International Atomic Energy Agency, 540 International Boundary Commission, 356 International Bureau of Weights and Measures, 116, 172 International Chamber of Commerce, 305, 306 International Commission on Radiological Protection, 540 International Commission on Radiological Units and Measurements, 540 International Committee on the Oceanography of the Pacific, 505n International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, 540n International Congress of Electricians, 153 International Council for the Exploration of the Seas, 505n International Council of Scientific Unions (see also International Unions) ,315, 316 504, 508n, 509n, 545, 546n, 547 Committee for Space Research, 556 International Committee on Geophysics, 556, 583 Special Committee for Antarctic Research, 556 Special Committee for Oceanic Research, 505n, 556 International Electrical Congress, 26n International Fixed Calendar, 305, 306 International Fixed Calendar League, 307 International Geophysical Cooperation, 557 International Geophysical Year, 505n, 513, 543, 545-558, 563 Blue Glacier Project, 550 NSF funding, 547 programs and objectives, 547 satellite program, 550-552 Second Polar Year, 548-549 U.S. Read the entire page →
From page 678... ... Japan bacillus bomb, 414 Hiroshima, 451, 490, 490n, 492, 493 Kure, 492 Nagasaki, 490, 490n, 492, 493 Sasebo, 492 science rehabilitation, 477 World War I, 485 World War II, 382, 427, 427n, 429, 486, 491 Japanese National Institute of Health, 497 Johns Hopkins University (see also universities) Applied Physics Laboratory, 403, 463 Medical School, 202, 217-218 Operations Research Office, 463 Joint Chiefs of Staff (see Department of Defense) Read the entire page →
From page 679... ... National Academy of Arts and Sciences, 61 National Academy of Engineering, 568573 Articles of Organization, 570, 572 Committee on Public Engineering Policy, 575n Executive Committee, 572 National Academy of Humanistic Research, proposed, 244, 244n National Academy of Sciences ABC Committee, 413 Act of Incorporation, 52-56, 71, 243, 271, 376, 389, 390, 408, 472, 473, 570, 592, 595, 597 Advisory Committee on Extra-Sectional Memberships, 334 Advisory Committee on International Science Policy, 507-516 Advisory Committee on Membership, 334 Advisory Committee on Scientific Publications, 387 Annual, 101, 101n, 105n Annual Report, 101, 101n, 105n, 115, 117, 139, 139n, 153, 189, 192,223, 225n, 233, 236, 285, 572n, 585n Articles of Organization, 73-74 atom bomb research (see NAS, Committee on Atomic Fission; atom bomb; research) Bache Fund (bequest) Read the entire page →
From page 680... ... , 574 Committee on Government Relations, 298, 360, 362, 372, 375-376 Committee on Government's Problems, 298 Committee on Improvement of San Juan River, Nicaragua, 97 Committee on Inauguration of a Rational Policy for the Forested Lands of the United States (see also NAS, Committee on Forestry) , 159, 160 Committee on Increasing Membership of Academy, 96n Committee on International Aspects of Oceanography, 501 Committee on International Cooperation in Research, 178 Committee on International Paleontologic Correlation, 179 Committee on International Science Policy, 507-514 Committee on Kilauea Volcano Investigation, 245 Committee on Letterheads, 223n Committee on Long-Range Weather Forecasting, 304 Committee on Loyalty in Relation to Government Support of Unclassif~ed Research, 531-532 Committee on Magnetic Deviation, 84, 87n Committee on Mathematical Aspects of Reapportionment, 246 Committee on Materials for the Manufacture of Cent Coins, 88 Committee on Meteor Crater, 293n Committee on Meteorology, 556, 556n Committee on Metric Standards, 97, 246 Committee on National Board of Health, 137, 137n Committee on National Research Foundation, 294n Read the entire page →
From page 681... ... , 302, 371, 537, 579 Committee on Science and Public Pol Panel on Radioactivity in the Oceans, icy, 573-578 536 Committee on Oceanography and Fisheries, 537, 538 Committee on Organization, 71, 73 Committee on Organization of Na tional Surveys and Signal Service, 144-150, 347 Committee on Organization of the Sci entif~c Resources of the Country for National Service, 208, 209 Committee on Organizing NRC, 209, 209n, 21~216 Committee on Panama Canal Slides, 204 Committee on Parc National Albert, 292, 292n Committee on Plan for Surveying and Mapping the Territories of the United States, 130, 136 Committee on Polaris Expedition,111 n, 114n Committee on Post-War Treatment of German Research and Engineer ing, 428n Committee on Prevention of Counter feiting, 87, 97 Committee on Protecting the Bottoms of Iron Vessels, 104 Committee on Questions of Meteorolog ical Science, 138 Committee on Relations of the Academy to the Government, 141, 506 Committee on Relationship between the NAS and NRC, 285n, 287n, 522, 524, 524n Committee on Relationship of Academy to Philosophical, Economic, and Philological Sciences, 177 Committee on Restoration of the De claration of Independence, 137 138 Committee on Revision of the Constitu tion, 525n cosPuP reports, 478, 575-578 Committee on Scientific Problems of National Parks, 292 Committee on Scientific Surveys of Philippine Islands, 174, 174n, 175n Committee on Standards for Electrical Measures, 153, 154, 154n Committee on Submarine Detection Systems, 397 Committee on Tests for the Purity of Whiskey, 87, 97 Committee on Underwater Radio, 245 Committee on Weights, Measures, and Coinage, 77, 80, 82, 87n, 115, 117, 171, 172, 246 Committee on Wind and Current Charts and Sailing Directions, 84 Committee to Consider Establishing a National Standardizing Bureau, 17 In Committee to Consider Report of International Scientific Commission on Biological Warfare in Korea and China, 544n Committee to Cooperate with National Board of Health, 137, 137n Committee to Represent the Academy before Congress, 141 Committee to Select Chief of Weather Bureau, 203 Committees on Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation, 532-536, 538, 540 congressional appropriations, 222n, 366 Constitution and Bylaws, 73, 75n, 76n, 77n, 90, 90n, 91, 109, 118, 119, 121, 156, 187, 287, 568, 606-613 corporate seal, 71 Council, 120, 142, 158n, 186, 189, 202, 207,208,211, 234, 244, 245n, 246, 334, 372, 375, 375n, 481n, 52 522, 527, 568, 570, 587 Read the entire page →
From page 682... ... finances,103n,104n,110n,126n,181n, 408, 458, 471, 514, 589 expenditures for applied research, 291, 291 n, 294n expenditures for NRC activities, 228, 272n, 408, 416, 434,469, 563-564, 589 expenses reimbursed by government, 103, 154n, 366, 437, 442, 473 founding, 1, 59, 61, 69, 77, 78n function, 514, 524 funds (see Carnegie Corp.; finances; grants-in-aid; Rockefeller Foundation) Geophysics Research Board, 556, 557, 583 Government Relations and Science Advisory Committee, Executive Committee, 375, 376, 378 Hartley Fund, 206 incorporators, 53, 63, 63n, 64n, 65, 69, 73, 98, 103n, 105, 118n, 122, 157, 189 independence, 439-440, 443 Joseph Henry Building, 587n Joseph Henry Fund, 126n legislation, 52-53 meetings, 92-95, 95n, 103, 105, 123, 123n, 130, 162, 192-194, 217, 255n, 308, 378, 471, 472, 479, 515, 521, 521n, 574 first annual, 89-91 newspaper accounts, 6~71, 71n organization, 63-67, 71-78 members deaths, 564, 589 election process, 106, 569-570 FB! Read the entire page →
From page 683... ... National Cancer Institute, 337 National Committee on Calendar Simplification, 306 National Committee on Radiation Protection, 538, 540 National Conservation Commission, 184 National Defense Research Committee, 346, 389, 395, 396, 399, 402, 408, 421, 426, 430, 516, 526 Applied Psychology Panel, 418 Division on Subsurface Warfare, 497, 503 incendiary weapons, 405 long-range navigation (LOIN) , 404, 424, 502 microwave radar development, 398399, 403, 404 NAS�NRC studies, 407 organization, 402n proximity fuse development, 402=s03 reorganization, 399 transfer, 401 National Geographic Society, 116n National Industrial Recovery Act, 349, 359, 365 National Industrial Research Laboratories, 345 National Institute, 13-15, 19, 35, 41, 42, 115 funds, 15 National Institute of Mental Health, 528 National Institutes of Health, 312, 336338, 464, 575, 586 National Institution for the Promotion of Science (see also National Institute) Read the entire page →
From page 684... ... Annual Report, 254 antisubmarine research (see research) Armed Forces-NRc Vision Committee, 519, 527 Articles of Organization and Bylaws, 246, 246n, 249,324,344, 345,470, 521 Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, 483, 49~493, 493n, 494-497, 536, 584 Board for Coordination of Malarial Studies, 411 n Building Research Advisory Board, 472n, 529 Building Research Institute, 529 Bulletin, 262n, 265, 313, 329, 340n, 522n Carnegie Corporation funding, 256 centrifugal gun design, 231n Chairmen, roster, 648-649 Chemical-Biological Coordination Center, 460n, 472 CND relationship, 222-223, 247, 248n Committee for Investigation of Waste Disposal, 536-537 Committee for Publication of Critical Tables of Physical and Chemical Constants, 268 Committee for Research on Problems of Sex,263, 371 Committee for Study of Paricutin Volcano, 507n Committee on Animal Nutrition, 259n Committee on Application of Mathematics to Chemistry, 333 Committee on Application of X-Rays to Chemistry and Chemical Technology, 333 Committee on Applied Mathematics, 416 Committee on Applied Psychology, 416, 418 Committee on Atomic Casualties (see also NRC, Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission) Read the entire page →
From page 685... ... ? 498n, 499, 505, 506, 538, 556, 558n Committee on Operations Research, 463 Committee on Pacific Exploration, 484, 485, 485n Committee on Pacific Investigations, 485 Committee on Passive Protection Against Bombing, 396 Committee on Physics, 230 Committee on Physiological Optics, 335 Committee on Pioneer Belts, 293 Committee on Polar Research, 556 Committee on Policies, 321, 326, 344, 436 Committee on Present Status of Industrial Research Personnel, 266 Committee on Problems of Drug Safety, 586 Committee on Prosthetic Devices, 411 Committee on Psychology of the Highway, 259 Committee on Publications, 265 Committee on Quantum Theory, 262 Committee on Race Characters, 264n Committee on Racial Problems, 264n Committee on Radiation Biology, 494n Committee on Radiation Cataracts, 494n Committee on Radioactivity, 472n Committee on Reconstruction Problems, 258 Committee on Relation between Atmosphere and Man, 261 Committee on Relation between Physics and the Medical Sciences, 262, 329 Committee on Research in the Earth Sciences, 333 Committee on Research Methods and Techniques, 262 Committee on Science Policy, 513 Committee on Scientific Aids to Learning, 333n, 385, 395 Committee on Scientific Problems of Human Migration, 264 Committee on Selection and Training of Aircraft Pilots, 389 Committee on Service PersonnelSelection and Training, 418 Committee on Sewage Disposal, 261 Committee on Shore-line Investigations, 293 Committee on Spectroscopy as Applied to Chemistry, 333 Committee on Standards of Radioactivity, 457n Read the entire page →
From page 686... ... .. Division of International Relations, 513, 514 Division of Medical Sciences, 249, 252, 261,335,408~10,41 In, 433, 477, 491, 586, 587 Division of Physical Sciences, 248, 252, 314, 326, 328, 334, 335, 358, 543, 585 Division of Research Extension, 248, 250, 28~290, 338 Division of States Relations, 248, 249, 289, 323 Divisions of Science and Technology, 248, 249, 289 Drug Efficacy Study' 587 Drug Research Board, 58~587 Earth Sciences, 329, 333, 334 Ethnogeographic Board, 486-487 Executive Board, 227, 251n, 255, 265, 287, 288, 324, 358, 470, 520, 521 Executive Committee, 223 Executive Orders, 235, 235n, 237-239, 247, 251, 351 n, 272, 453, 464n, 490, 522n, 644-647 Executive Secretaries and Executive Offices, roster, 65~651 federal government relationship, 235n, 347-349 fellowship programs, 238-239, 239n, 257, 258n, 293, 425n, 466, 472n, 481n, 518, 530, 541 AEC programs, 457, 466, 481n, 530 Food and Nutrition Board, 528 Food Protection Committee, 52~529 formation, 20~210, 214, 215 functions, 51~515 funding needs (see also HAS, finances) Read the entire page →
From page 687... ... , 406, 457, 530 operation, 255-256, 269, 269n organization, 211n, 212, 215, 215n, 225-227, 233-236, 252, 253n, 258 Pacific Science Board, 472n, 483-490, 498, 581 Coordinated Investigation of Micronesian Anthropology, 488 Invertebrate Consultants Committee for the Pacific, 488 Scientific Investigations in Micronesia, 488-489 Scientific Investigations in the Ryukyu Islands, 489 patent policy, 255n Project Committee, 255, 270 Project Mohole, 558-563, 584 Advisory Committee on Scientific Objectives for the Mohole Project, 561, 562 Advisory Committee on Site Selection, 561, 562 AMSOC Committee, 56(}562 NSF funding, 55~560 psychological studies, 232-233 publications, 314, 329, 329n, 340, 340n, 355n purpose, 254 Reference Committee, 387 relationship to NAS (see NAS) reorganization, 225, 227, 228, 247n, 24~249, 32(~324, 340, 344-345, 470 Repent and Circular Series, 265, 522n Research Fellowship Board, 239 Research Information Service, 226, 227, 229n, 24(}241, 24~250, 250n, 324 Rockefeller Foundation funding, 256257 Science Advisory Board, 203n, 246, 300, 304, 326, 330-332, 340, 341, 341n, 347-351, 351n, 352-353, 353n, 354-378, 378n, 37~381, 383, 389 appointments, 352, 354, 356 Committee on Cooperation with Social Science Groups, 352 Committee on Design and Construction of Dirigibles, 375 Committee on Geological Survey and Bureau of Mines, 352 Committee on National Bureau of Standards, 352 Committee on Policy of the Government in Relation to Scientific Research, 352 Committee on Problems of Archaeology, Land Classification, and Homesteading, in the TVA, 352 Committee on War and Navy Departments, 352 Committee on Weather Bureau, 352 conflict, 363, 372 creation, 351, 353n. Read the entire page →
From page 688... ... Navy) New Atlantis, 4, 33 New Deal, 237-381, 389, 529 New Jersey Medical Society, 8 Nobel Prize, 282, 282n, 301 North American Conservation Confer ence, 184 North American Review, 124 North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 480, 511 North Pole expedition (see Arctic expedition) Read the entire page →
From page 689... ... Commission, 174, 175n scientific exploration, 173, 174, 191 n, 192 Philosophical College (see also Invisible College) , 2 Philosophical Society of Washington, 115-116, 116n phonograph, demonstration by Edison, 283-284 physical sciences astronomy, 318-319 solar eclipse, 8 transit of Mercury, 127 transit of Venus, 6 atomic physics, 313, 420 atomic weights, 282n gaily's Beads, 8 biochemistry, 476 biophysics, 326, 326n, 333, 335 chemistry, 326, 326n, 331, 333, 336 electricity, 35, 153n, 282 electromagnetics, 24-27, 35 geology, 36 geomagnetics, 21 geophysics, 328, 329n, 333, 547-548, 548n global plate tectonics, 584 marine sciences, 85-86 metallurgy, 414 meteorology, 21, 32, 42, 147, 547 nuclear physics, 385, 457n oceanography, 487, 498-499, 501, 502, 504, 505n, 507 physics breakthrough, 180~181 physiology, 476 plutonium studies, 422, 423 publications, 329n quantum physics, 302, 326, 329 radiation research, 169, 313, 314, 329, 330, 337 rheology, 334 solar sciences, 178 spectroscopy, 282 tectonics, 584n visual science, 335 X rays, 169, 313, 329, 330 physicians (see medicine; medical societies) Read the entire page →
From page 690... ... , 167, 359, 435, 458, 480 Germany, 385, 427-429 human reproduction, 575 industrial, 229, 28~291, 333,339, 340, 340n, 341, 342, 342n medical, 202, 301, 312, 585 metallurgy, 411 415, 433 military, 229, 387, 398, 436, 451 NAS expenditures, 348 nuclear, 419 oceanography, 303, 371, 487, 505, 505n, 506 organization in NRC, 396 physical science, 337 postwar, 435, 443, 460 radiation, 330, 457n, 492-497, 532-535 science, 327, 337, 342, 359, 366, 393, 402, 451, 458, 464, 576 space, 549, 549n, 582 underwater, 460 university-federal government projects, 462 uranium, 386-387, 398, 420-424 warfare projects, 230-231, 402, 411, 418, 425 Research and Development Board, 461462, 480, 527 Research Board for National Security (see NAS) Research Corporation, 395 Rockefeller Foundation, 228, 244, 263, 285, 303, 312, 330, 336, 354, 500, 532, 545 Concilium Bibliographicum grant, 268 General Education Board, 257 National Research Council, funding, 25~257, 354, 374n oceanography projects, 501n, 502 research fellowships, 238-239, 256, 256n, 257, 257n Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 170, 238, 239 rockets and satellites, 413, 54~551, 554 Aerobee rocket, 549 Explorer I, 552, 553 Jupiter-C rocket, 552 NIKE�ASP rockets, 551 Read the entire page →
From page 691... ... , 231, 362, 379, 435, 531, 563, 564, 573, 584-587, 589, 593 applied, 207, 463n evolvement, 33-36 legislation, 44~441, 443-446, 451459, 463, 465-468,47~181, 555n, 584-587 Flood bill, 481 Fulbright bill, 452 Kilgore bill, 446~452 Kilgore-Magnuson bill, 458-459 Lea bill, 380 McMahon bill, 456 Magnuson bill, 450-452, 454-455, 457, 458, 467 May bill, 452 May-lohnson bill, 454-455 Mills bill, 466 Patman bill, 447-448 Priest bill, 48~481 Smith bill, 465, 46~468 Wolverton bill, 467, 468 mobilization, 389, 392-394, 400, 406 national resource, 358 postwar planning, 429 132 public policy, 463~68, 50~510, 564 space, 582 science academies, 4 France, 3, 7, 53, 225 Germany, 3 Great Britain, 1, 225 Italy, 2, 44, 225 U.S.S.R., 255 Science Advisory Board (see NRC) Science Advisory Committee, 464n, 508, 526, 532 Science and Foreign Relations, 512-513 Science and Public Policy, 463-465, 50 510 Science magazine, 142, 142n, 143, 143n, 149, 150, 177n, 195, 330 Science News Service, 260 science objectivity, 36~369, 435, 469 Science, the Endless Frontier, 392n, 431 441, 44~451, 483, 564 SaentificAmerzcan, 68, 170, 177n Saentzfic Endeavor, 591n, 593 scientific information exchange, 388, 397-398, 482, 509, 545 scientific institutions establishment, 243 Scientific Investigations in Micronesia, 48~489 Scientific Investigations in the Ryukyu Islands, 489 Scientific Lazzaroni, 44, 46, 47, 52, 63, 85~6, 157, 194n scientific manpower, 405, 530 Scientific Monthly, 178n scientific personnel roster, 405 scientific publications, 177n, 178n, 260, 505n, 506n, 509, 539, 580 scientific services, government, 354 scientists-engineers relationships, 569 security clearance, 531 Selective Service System, OSRD cooperation (see also military service) Read the entire page →
From page 692... ... sonar, 425, 502 South Pacific Commission, 489 space exploration, 554, 582-584 Cape Canaveral (Kennedy) launches, 550 Discoverer 13, 583 Explorer I, 552, 582 Freedom 7, 583 Friendship 7, 583 manned flights, 582 Mariner 2, 583 planets, 556, 583 Project Vanguard, 552 Sputnik, 543, 552, 554n, 573 Spanish-American War, 142 Spanish Civil War, 343, 382 Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, 552, 553, 573, 574 Sputnik (see space exploration) Read the entire page →
From page 693... ... House Armed Services Committee, 462 Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures, 172 Committee on Foreign Affairs, 307 Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, 466 Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee on Naval Affairs, 450 Committee on Science and Astronau tics, 577 Committee on Smithson Bequest, 18 Special Committee on Post-War Mili tary Policy, 450 Special Subcommittee on Oceanog raphy, 507 Subcommittee on National Security, 478, 479 Subcommittee on Public Health Science and Commerce, 480 Joint Commission to Study Science Government Relationships, 144 NSF debates, 451 - 452, 467 Senate Committee on Forest Reservations, 173 Small Business Committee, 541 Smithsonian Institution funding, 119 Thirty-Seventh (1861-1863) , legisla tion, 56n, 59 U.S. Read the entire page →
From page 694... ... Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 303, 371, 498-500, 502, 536, 537 Works Projects Administration, 367, 379 allocations for science, 367-368 World Calendar (see calendar reform) World Calendar Association, 307 World Conservation Conference, 184 World's Fair, Chicago, 308-310 World Data Center (see NAS) Read the entire page →

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... ABCC (see NRC, Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission) A-bomb (see atom bomb)

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... American Association of-Scientific Workers, 447 American Association of University Professors, 220 American Cancer Society, 472 American Chemical Journal, 179 American Chemical Society, 116n American Committee to Aid Russian Scientists with Scientific Literature, 264n, 265, 265n American Council of Learned Societies, 244, 264n, 486, 529 American Council on Education, 528 American Federation of Labor, 256 American Geographical Society, 293,325 American Geological Institute, Mission 66 Committee, 293n American Geophysical Union, 267, 314, 328, 329, 329n American Historical Association, 188n American Indians, 299, 299n American Institute of Nutrition, 259n American Journal of Science and Arts, 24,35, 45, 69, 120, 157, 177n American Metrological Society, 117n American Miscellaneous Society, 558, 560-561 American Naturalist, 141 n, 177n, 78n American Oriental Society, 244 American Philosophical Society, 6, 7, 11, 14, 21, 25-26, 40n, 45, 52, 66-68, 107, 286 American Relief Administration, 264 American Shore and Beach Preservation Association, 293 American Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, 6 American Society of Biological Scientists, 576 American Society of Civil Engineers, 355 American Telephone and Telegraph Co., 384 American University (see also universities) , 336 America's Resources of Specialized Talent, 530 Annual of Scientific Discovery, 35, 35n Annual Tables of Constants and Numerical Data, 268 Antisubmarine Warfare Operation Research Group, 417 anthropological sciences, 140, 158 Anthropological Society, 116n Anthropometric Society, 140n Applied Physics Laboratory (see Johns Hopkins University)

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... BEAR Committees (see NAS, Committees on Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation) Bell Telephone Company, 384 Bell Telephone Laboratories, 384 Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 202 Bikini, hydrogen bomb test accident, 496 biochemistry (see physical sciences)

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... Cold War, 480, 544, 563, 564 College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 8-9 Transactions, 9 Colonial Fellows (see Royal Society) Columbia Historical Society, 116n Columbia River Basin, development, 357 Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences, 11-13 Commission on Human Resources and Advanced Training, 530 Committee for a National Science Foundation, 458, 465 Committee for Hungarian Refugee Relief, 545 Committee on Aeronautics, 461n Committee on Atomic Energy, 461n Committee on Discovery and Development of Scientific Talent, 449 Committee on Electronics, 461n Committee on Geographical Exploration, 461n Committee on Geophysical Sciences,461n Committee on Guided Missiles, 461n Committee on International Exchange of Persons, 529-530 Committee on Isthmian Canal, 97n Committee on Postwar Research, 436 Committee on Publication of Scientific Information, 449 Committee on Science and Public Welfare, 449 Committee Supporting the Bush Report, 457 Commonwealth Fund (see also General Education Board)

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... , 341, 356, 543 Assistant Secretary for Science and Technology, 543-544 Bureau of Public Roads, 259, 543 Bureau of Statistics, 115 Maritime Administration, 543 Minerals Division transfer, 356 National Bureau of Standards, 81, 171, 172, 182, 186, 336, 338, 355-356, 375, 393, 403, 478, 541-544, 564 metric system advocacy, 172 Visiting Committee, 355, 542 Office of Technical Services, 543 Patent Office, 10, 40, 48, 89, 115, 225, 543 ; Department of Commerce and Labor, 182n Department of Defense, 461, 527, 528, 542, 549, 551, 564 Joint Chiefs of Staff, 461 Joint Committee on New Weapons and Equipment, 461 Department of Science, 146, 146n, 147, 147n, 151, 151n, 174, 175n, 183n, 251 Department of State, 63, 510, 511, 513, 514 International Science Policy Survey Group, 511 International Science Steering Committee, 511 science community liaison, 512 Superintendent of Patents, 10 Department of the Army, 402, 403, 438, 439, 445, 549 Bureau of Ordnance, 228 Medical Department, 115 Department of the Interior,131,146,490 Bureau of Fisheries, 501, 507 Bureau of Indian Affairs, 299, 300n Bureau of Mines, 232, 243, 356 General Land Of rice, 11, 40, 12~129, 131 topographical maps and charts, 127133 U.S. Geological Survey, 11, 12~127, 131-133, 14~147, 147n, 148, 160, 160n, 167n, 168, 282, 356, 583 Department of the Navy, 40, 51, 81, 86, 364, 375, 392, 397, 402, 435, 437, 438, 440, 441, 445, 461-462, 487488, 490, 498, 527, 549 Bureau of Aeronautics, 510 Bureau of Navigation, 50, 81, 84-86, 115 Bureau of Steam Engineering, 115 Hydrographic Office, 50, 115, 14 147, 501 Medical Department, 115 Nautical Almanac Office, 50 Nautical Almanac, 106, 115 Naval Observatory, 40, 50, 78, 89, 90, 106, 145 Office of Naval Research, 445, 462, 464, 480, 488, 502, 504, 507, 527, 531, 558, 564 Advisory Committee, 440n Naval Research Advisory Committee, 463, 567 Department of the Treasury, 148 Depression (see Great Depression)

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... geological time measurements,313,313n, 457n George Washington Memorial Association, 188 education, 142 engineering and research, 428 postwar science, 428, 428n scientists, 427, 428 U-boats, 208, 217, 229, 427 uranium research, 422 V-1, V-2 rockets, 413, 426n, 427 World War I, 217, 241 Girard College, Pa., 22, 26 global plate tectonics (see physical sciences) Grand Canyon, Yarspai Station, 292 grants-in-aid, 366, 451, 468, 531 Great Britain (see also NAS, Committees on Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation)

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... Industrial Research Institute, 345, 345n industry-government-academic laboratories interrelationships, 233, 341, 464 insecticides, 411 Inter-Allied Conference on International Scientific Organizations, 240 _ ~ interferometry, 282 International Association of Academies, 163, 178-179, 185, 195, 241, 314 International Association of Physical Oceanography, 505n International Atomic Energy Agency, 540 International Boundary Commission, 356 International Bureau of Weights and Measures, 116, 172 International Chamber of Commerce, 305, 306 International Commission on Radiological Protection, 540 International Commission on Radiological Units and Measurements, 540 International Committee on the Oceanography of the Pacific, 505n International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, 540n International Congress of Electricians, 153 International Council for the Exploration of the Seas, 505n International Council of Scientific Unions (see also International Unions) ,315, 316 504, 508n, 509n, 545, 546n, 547 Committee for Space Research, 556 International Committee on Geophysics, 556, 583 Special Committee for Antarctic Research, 556 Special Committee for Oceanic Research, 505n, 556 International Electrical Congress, 26n International Fixed Calendar, 305, 306 International Fixed Calendar League, 307 International Geophysical Cooperation, 557 International Geophysical Year, 505n, 513, 543, 545-558, 563 Blue Glacier Project, 550 NSF funding, 547 programs and objectives, 547 satellite program, 550-552 Second Polar Year, 548-549 U.S.

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... Japan bacillus bomb, 414 Hiroshima, 451, 490, 490n, 492, 493 Kure, 492 Nagasaki, 490, 490n, 492, 493 Sasebo, 492 science rehabilitation, 477 World War I, 485 World War II, 382, 427, 427n, 429, 486, 491 Japanese National Institute of Health, 497 Johns Hopkins University (see also universities) Applied Physics Laboratory, 403, 463 Medical School, 202, 217-218 Operations Research Office, 463 Joint Chiefs of Staff (see Department of Defense)

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... National Academy of Arts and Sciences, 61 National Academy of Engineering, 568573 Articles of Organization, 570, 572 Committee on Public Engineering Policy, 575n Executive Committee, 572 National Academy of Humanistic Research, proposed, 244, 244n National Academy of Sciences ABC Committee, 413 Act of Incorporation, 52-56, 71, 243, 271, 376, 389, 390, 408, 472, 473, 570, 592, 595, 597 Advisory Committee on Extra-Sectional Memberships, 334 Advisory Committee on International Science Policy, 507-516 Advisory Committee on Membership, 334 Advisory Committee on Scientific Publications, 387 Annual, 101, 101n, 105n Annual Report, 101, 101n, 105n, 115, 117, 139, 139n, 153, 189, 192,223, 225n, 233, 236, 285, 572n, 585n Articles of Organization, 73-74 atom bomb research (see NAS, Committee on Atomic Fission; atom bomb; research) Bache Fund (bequest)

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... , 574 Committee on Government Relations, 298, 360, 362, 372, 375-376 Committee on Government's Problems, 298 Committee on Improvement of San Juan River, Nicaragua, 97 Committee on Inauguration of a Rational Policy for the Forested Lands of the United States (see also NAS, Committee on Forestry) , 159, 160 Committee on Increasing Membership of Academy, 96n Committee on International Aspects of Oceanography, 501 Committee on International Cooperation in Research, 178 Committee on International Paleontologic Correlation, 179 Committee on International Science Policy, 507-514 Committee on Kilauea Volcano Investigation, 245 Committee on Letterheads, 223n Committee on Long-Range Weather Forecasting, 304 Committee on Loyalty in Relation to Government Support of Unclassif~ed Research, 531-532 Committee on Magnetic Deviation, 84, 87n Committee on Mathematical Aspects of Reapportionment, 246 Committee on Materials for the Manufacture of Cent Coins, 88 Committee on Meteor Crater, 293n Committee on Meteorology, 556, 556n Committee on Metric Standards, 97, 246 Committee on National Board of Health, 137, 137n Committee on National Research Foundation, 294n

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... , 302, 371, 537, 579 Committee on Science and Public Pol Panel on Radioactivity in the Oceans, icy, 573-578 536 Committee on Oceanography and Fisheries, 537, 538 Committee on Organization, 71, 73 Committee on Organization of Na tional Surveys and Signal Service, 144-150, 347 Committee on Organization of the Sci entif~c Resources of the Country for National Service, 208, 209 Committee on Organizing NRC, 209, 209n, 21~216 Committee on Panama Canal Slides, 204 Committee on Parc National Albert, 292, 292n Committee on Plan for Surveying and Mapping the Territories of the United States, 130, 136 Committee on Polaris Expedition,111 n, 114n Committee on Post-War Treatment of German Research and Engineer ing, 428n Committee on Prevention of Counter feiting, 87, 97 Committee on Protecting the Bottoms of Iron Vessels, 104 Committee on Questions of Meteorolog ical Science, 138 Committee on Relations of the Academy to the Government, 141, 506 Committee on Relationship between the NAS and NRC, 285n, 287n, 522, 524, 524n Committee on Relationship of Academy to Philosophical, Economic, and Philological Sciences, 177 Committee on Restoration of the De claration of Independence, 137 138 Committee on Revision of the Constitu tion, 525n cosPuP reports, 478, 575-578 Committee on Scientific Problems of National Parks, 292 Committee on Scientific Surveys of Philippine Islands, 174, 174n, 175n Committee on Standards for Electrical Measures, 153, 154, 154n Committee on Submarine Detection Systems, 397 Committee on Tests for the Purity of Whiskey, 87, 97 Committee on Underwater Radio, 245 Committee on Weights, Measures, and Coinage, 77, 80, 82, 87n, 115, 117, 171, 172, 246 Committee on Wind and Current Charts and Sailing Directions, 84 Committee to Consider Establishing a National Standardizing Bureau, 17 In Committee to Consider Report of International Scientific Commission on Biological Warfare in Korea and China, 544n Committee to Cooperate with National Board of Health, 137, 137n Committee to Represent the Academy before Congress, 141 Committee to Select Chief of Weather Bureau, 203 Committees on Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation, 532-536, 538, 540 congressional appropriations, 222n, 366 Constitution and Bylaws, 73, 75n, 76n, 77n, 90, 90n, 91, 109, 118, 119, 121, 156, 187, 287, 568, 606-613 corporate seal, 71 Council, 120, 142, 158n, 186, 189, 202, 207,208,211, 234, 244, 245n, 246, 334, 372, 375, 375n, 481n, 52 522, 527, 568, 570, 587

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... finances,103n,104n,110n,126n,181n, 408, 458, 471, 514, 589 expenditures for applied research, 291, 291 n, 294n expenditures for NRC activities, 228, 272n, 408, 416, 434,469, 563-564, 589 expenses reimbursed by government, 103, 154n, 366, 437, 442, 473 founding, 1, 59, 61, 69, 77, 78n function, 514, 524 funds (see Carnegie Corp.; finances; grants-in-aid; Rockefeller Foundation) Geophysics Research Board, 556, 557, 583 Government Relations and Science Advisory Committee, Executive Committee, 375, 376, 378 Hartley Fund, 206 incorporators, 53, 63, 63n, 64n, 65, 69, 73, 98, 103n, 105, 118n, 122, 157, 189 independence, 439-440, 443 Joseph Henry Building, 587n Joseph Henry Fund, 126n legislation, 52-53 meetings, 92-95, 95n, 103, 105, 123, 123n, 130, 162, 192-194, 217, 255n, 308, 378, 471, 472, 479, 515, 521, 521n, 574 first annual, 89-91 newspaper accounts, 6~71, 71n organization, 63-67, 71-78 members deaths, 564, 589 election process, 106, 569-570 FB!

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... National Cancer Institute, 337 National Committee on Calendar Simplification, 306 National Committee on Radiation Protection, 538, 540 National Conservation Commission, 184 National Defense Research Committee, 346, 389, 395, 396, 399, 402, 408, 421, 426, 430, 516, 526 Applied Psychology Panel, 418 Division on Subsurface Warfare, 497, 503 incendiary weapons, 405 long-range navigation (LOIN) , 404, 424, 502 microwave radar development, 398399, 403, 404 NAS�NRC studies, 407 organization, 402n proximity fuse development, 402=s03 reorganization, 399 transfer, 401 National Geographic Society, 116n National Industrial Recovery Act, 349, 359, 365 National Industrial Research Laboratories, 345 National Institute, 13-15, 19, 35, 41, 42, 115 funds, 15 National Institute of Mental Health, 528 National Institutes of Health, 312, 336338, 464, 575, 586 National Institution for the Promotion of Science (see also National Institute)

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... Annual Report, 254 antisubmarine research (see research) Armed Forces-NRc Vision Committee, 519, 527 Articles of Organization and Bylaws, 246, 246n, 249,324,344, 345,470, 521 Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, 483, 49~493, 493n, 494-497, 536, 584 Board for Coordination of Malarial Studies, 411 n Building Research Advisory Board, 472n, 529 Building Research Institute, 529 Bulletin, 262n, 265, 313, 329, 340n, 522n Carnegie Corporation funding, 256 centrifugal gun design, 231n Chairmen, roster, 648-649 Chemical-Biological Coordination Center, 460n, 472 CND relationship, 222-223, 247, 248n Committee for Investigation of Waste Disposal, 536-537 Committee for Publication of Critical Tables of Physical and Chemical Constants, 268 Committee for Research on Problems of Sex,263, 371 Committee for Study of Paricutin Volcano, 507n Committee on Animal Nutrition, 259n Committee on Application of Mathematics to Chemistry, 333 Committee on Application of X-Rays to Chemistry and Chemical Technology, 333 Committee on Applied Mathematics, 416 Committee on Applied Psychology, 416, 418 Committee on Atomic Casualties (see also NRC, Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission)

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... ? 498n, 499, 505, 506, 538, 556, 558n Committee on Operations Research, 463 Committee on Pacific Exploration, 484, 485, 485n Committee on Pacific Investigations, 485 Committee on Passive Protection Against Bombing, 396 Committee on Physics, 230 Committee on Physiological Optics, 335 Committee on Pioneer Belts, 293 Committee on Polar Research, 556 Committee on Policies, 321, 326, 344, 436 Committee on Present Status of Industrial Research Personnel, 266 Committee on Problems of Drug Safety, 586 Committee on Prosthetic Devices, 411 Committee on Psychology of the Highway, 259 Committee on Publications, 265 Committee on Quantum Theory, 262 Committee on Race Characters, 264n Committee on Racial Problems, 264n Committee on Radiation Biology, 494n Committee on Radiation Cataracts, 494n Committee on Radioactivity, 472n Committee on Reconstruction Problems, 258 Committee on Relation between Atmosphere and Man, 261 Committee on Relation between Physics and the Medical Sciences, 262, 329 Committee on Research in the Earth Sciences, 333 Committee on Research Methods and Techniques, 262 Committee on Science Policy, 513 Committee on Scientific Aids to Learning, 333n, 385, 395 Committee on Scientific Problems of Human Migration, 264 Committee on Selection and Training of Aircraft Pilots, 389 Committee on Service PersonnelSelection and Training, 418 Committee on Sewage Disposal, 261 Committee on Shore-line Investigations, 293 Committee on Spectroscopy as Applied to Chemistry, 333 Committee on Standards of Radioactivity, 457n

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... .. Division of International Relations, 513, 514 Division of Medical Sciences, 249, 252, 261,335,408~10,41 In, 433, 477, 491, 586, 587 Division of Physical Sciences, 248, 252, 314, 326, 328, 334, 335, 358, 543, 585 Division of Research Extension, 248, 250, 28~290, 338 Division of States Relations, 248, 249, 289, 323 Divisions of Science and Technology, 248, 249, 289 Drug Efficacy Study' 587 Drug Research Board, 58~587 Earth Sciences, 329, 333, 334 Ethnogeographic Board, 486-487 Executive Board, 227, 251n, 255, 265, 287, 288, 324, 358, 470, 520, 521 Executive Committee, 223 Executive Orders, 235, 235n, 237-239, 247, 251, 351 n, 272, 453, 464n, 490, 522n, 644-647 Executive Secretaries and Executive Offices, roster, 65~651 federal government relationship, 235n, 347-349 fellowship programs, 238-239, 239n, 257, 258n, 293, 425n, 466, 472n, 481n, 518, 530, 541 AEC programs, 457, 466, 481n, 530 Food and Nutrition Board, 528 Food Protection Committee, 52~529 formation, 20~210, 214, 215 functions, 51~515 funding needs (see also HAS, finances)

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... , 406, 457, 530 operation, 255-256, 269, 269n organization, 211n, 212, 215, 215n, 225-227, 233-236, 252, 253n, 258 Pacific Science Board, 472n, 483-490, 498, 581 Coordinated Investigation of Micronesian Anthropology, 488 Invertebrate Consultants Committee for the Pacific, 488 Scientific Investigations in Micronesia, 488-489 Scientific Investigations in the Ryukyu Islands, 489 patent policy, 255n Project Committee, 255, 270 Project Mohole, 558-563, 584 Advisory Committee on Scientific Objectives for the Mohole Project, 561, 562 Advisory Committee on Site Selection, 561, 562 AMSOC Committee, 56(}562 NSF funding, 55~560 psychological studies, 232-233 publications, 314, 329, 329n, 340, 340n, 355n purpose, 254 Reference Committee, 387 relationship to NAS (see NAS) reorganization, 225, 227, 228, 247n, 24~249, 32(~324, 340, 344-345, 470 Repent and Circular Series, 265, 522n Research Fellowship Board, 239 Research Information Service, 226, 227, 229n, 24(}241, 24~250, 250n, 324 Rockefeller Foundation funding, 256257 Science Advisory Board, 203n, 246, 300, 304, 326, 330-332, 340, 341, 341n, 347-351, 351n, 352-353, 353n, 354-378, 378n, 37~381, 383, 389 appointments, 352, 354, 356 Committee on Cooperation with Social Science Groups, 352 Committee on Design and Construction of Dirigibles, 375 Committee on Geological Survey and Bureau of Mines, 352 Committee on National Bureau of Standards, 352 Committee on Policy of the Government in Relation to Scientific Research, 352 Committee on Problems of Archaeology, Land Classification, and Homesteading, in the TVA, 352 Committee on War and Navy Departments, 352 Committee on Weather Bureau, 352 conflict, 363, 372 creation, 351, 353n.

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... Navy) New Atlantis, 4, 33 New Deal, 237-381, 389, 529 New Jersey Medical Society, 8 Nobel Prize, 282, 282n, 301 North American Conservation Confer ence, 184 North American Review, 124 North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 480, 511 North Pole expedition (see Arctic expedition)

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... Commission, 174, 175n scientific exploration, 173, 174, 191 n, 192 Philosophical College (see also Invisible College) , 2 Philosophical Society of Washington, 115-116, 116n phonograph, demonstration by Edison, 283-284 physical sciences astronomy, 318-319 solar eclipse, 8 transit of Mercury, 127 transit of Venus, 6 atomic physics, 313, 420 atomic weights, 282n gaily's Beads, 8 biochemistry, 476 biophysics, 326, 326n, 333, 335 chemistry, 326, 326n, 331, 333, 336 electricity, 35, 153n, 282 electromagnetics, 24-27, 35 geology, 36 geomagnetics, 21 geophysics, 328, 329n, 333, 547-548, 548n global plate tectonics, 584 marine sciences, 85-86 metallurgy, 414 meteorology, 21, 32, 42, 147, 547 nuclear physics, 385, 457n oceanography, 487, 498-499, 501, 502, 504, 505n, 507 physics breakthrough, 180~181 physiology, 476 plutonium studies, 422, 423 publications, 329n quantum physics, 302, 326, 329 radiation research, 169, 313, 314, 329, 330, 337 rheology, 334 solar sciences, 178 spectroscopy, 282 tectonics, 584n visual science, 335 X rays, 169, 313, 329, 330 physicians (see medicine; medical societies)

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... , 167, 359, 435, 458, 480 Germany, 385, 427-429 human reproduction, 575 industrial, 229, 28~291, 333,339, 340, 340n, 341, 342, 342n medical, 202, 301, 312, 585 metallurgy, 411 415, 433 military, 229, 387, 398, 436, 451 NAS expenditures, 348 nuclear, 419 oceanography, 303, 371, 487, 505, 505n, 506 organization in NRC, 396 physical science, 337 postwar, 435, 443, 460 radiation, 330, 457n, 492-497, 532-535 science, 327, 337, 342, 359, 366, 393, 402, 451, 458, 464, 576 space, 549, 549n, 582 underwater, 460 university-federal government projects, 462 uranium, 386-387, 398, 420-424 warfare projects, 230-231, 402, 411, 418, 425 Research and Development Board, 461462, 480, 527 Research Board for National Security (see NAS) Research Corporation, 395 Rockefeller Foundation, 228, 244, 263, 285, 303, 312, 330, 336, 354, 500, 532, 545 Concilium Bibliographicum grant, 268 General Education Board, 257 National Research Council, funding, 25~257, 354, 374n oceanography projects, 501n, 502 research fellowships, 238-239, 256, 256n, 257, 257n Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 170, 238, 239 rockets and satellites, 413, 54~551, 554 Aerobee rocket, 549 Explorer I, 552, 553 Jupiter-C rocket, 552 NIKE�ASP rockets, 551

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... , 231, 362, 379, 435, 531, 563, 564, 573, 584-587, 589, 593 applied, 207, 463n evolvement, 33-36 legislation, 44~441, 443-446, 451459, 463, 465-468,47~181, 555n, 584-587 Flood bill, 481 Fulbright bill, 452 Kilgore bill, 446~452 Kilgore-Magnuson bill, 458-459 Lea bill, 380 McMahon bill, 456 Magnuson bill, 450-452, 454-455, 457, 458, 467 May bill, 452 May-lohnson bill, 454-455 Mills bill, 466 Patman bill, 447-448 Priest bill, 48~481 Smith bill, 465, 46~468 Wolverton bill, 467, 468 mobilization, 389, 392-394, 400, 406 national resource, 358 postwar planning, 429 132 public policy, 463~68, 50~510, 564 space, 582 science academies, 4 France, 3, 7, 53, 225 Germany, 3 Great Britain, 1, 225 Italy, 2, 44, 225 U.S.S.R., 255 Science Advisory Board (see NRC) Science Advisory Committee, 464n, 508, 526, 532 Science and Foreign Relations, 512-513 Science and Public Policy, 463-465, 50 510 Science magazine, 142, 142n, 143, 143n, 149, 150, 177n, 195, 330 Science News Service, 260 science objectivity, 36~369, 435, 469 Science, the Endless Frontier, 392n, 431 441, 44~451, 483, 564 SaentificAmerzcan, 68, 170, 177n Saentzfic Endeavor, 591n, 593 scientific information exchange, 388, 397-398, 482, 509, 545 scientific institutions establishment, 243 Scientific Investigations in Micronesia, 48~489 Scientific Investigations in the Ryukyu Islands, 489 Scientific Lazzaroni, 44, 46, 47, 52, 63, 85~6, 157, 194n scientific manpower, 405, 530 Scientific Monthly, 178n scientific personnel roster, 405 scientific publications, 177n, 178n, 260, 505n, 506n, 509, 539, 580 scientific services, government, 354 scientists-engineers relationships, 569 security clearance, 531 Selective Service System, OSRD cooperation (see also military service)

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... sonar, 425, 502 South Pacific Commission, 489 space exploration, 554, 582-584 Cape Canaveral (Kennedy) launches, 550 Discoverer 13, 583 Explorer I, 552, 582 Freedom 7, 583 Friendship 7, 583 manned flights, 582 Mariner 2, 583 planets, 556, 583 Project Vanguard, 552 Sputnik, 543, 552, 554n, 573 Spanish-American War, 142 Spanish Civil War, 343, 382 Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, 552, 553, 573, 574 Sputnik (see space exploration)

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... House Armed Services Committee, 462 Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures, 172 Committee on Foreign Affairs, 307 Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, 466 Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee on Naval Affairs, 450 Committee on Science and Astronau tics, 577 Committee on Smithson Bequest, 18 Special Committee on Post-War Mili tary Policy, 450 Special Subcommittee on Oceanog raphy, 507 Subcommittee on National Security, 478, 479 Subcommittee on Public Health Science and Commerce, 480 Joint Commission to Study Science Government Relationships, 144 NSF debates, 451 - 452, 467 Senate Committee on Forest Reservations, 173 Small Business Committee, 541 Smithsonian Institution funding, 119 Thirty-Seventh (1861-1863) , legisla tion, 56n, 59 U.S.

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... Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 303, 371, 498-500, 502, 536, 537 Works Projects Administration, 367, 379 allocations for science, 367-368 World Calendar (see calendar reform) World Calendar Association, 307 World Conservation Conference, 184 World's Fair, Chicago, 308-310 World Data Center (see NAS)

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