Centralization of Federal Science Activities: Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, First Session, Volume 2

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Committee Serial No. 10. Examines Government organizational structure supporting scientific research to determine how Federal support may be strengthened.
 

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Page 399 - Science, and in 1914 he was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science by the University of Melbourne.
Page 393 - Chairman; one representative from the Office of Science and Technology in the Executive Office of the President...
Page 406 - Rational Descriptions. Decisions and Designs, is now in press. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers : the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ; and the American Society for Engineering Education.
Page 125 - Exchange is supported jointly by the Department of Defense, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Atomic Energy Commission, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the National Science Foundation, the Veterans' Administration, the Federal Aviation Agency, and the Smithsonian Institution which also acts as the contracting agency.
Page 120 - ... to explain" the work. Let the explanation go before the work, It is well sometimes to require the pupil to go through the whole problem step by step, telling what is to be done, and why it is to be done, before a single figure is written or a single operation is performed.
Page 406 - Relations and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.
Page 458 - It would not be in the national interest to exploit space science at the cost of weakening our efforts in other scientific endeavors. This need not happen if we plan our national program for space science and technology as part of a balanced national effort in all science and technology.
Page 496 - Foundation consists of a National Endowment for the Arts, a National Endowment for the Humanities, and a Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
Page 447 - If, as has been proposed, a less comprehensive "Department of Science were created — by consolidation of the Atomic Energy Commission, National Science Foundation, National Bureau •of Standards, and other agencies I talked about earlier — their operations might be made more effective. There would still be need, however, to coordinate and integrate their activities with that of the mission-oriented agencies having related scientific and technical programs. In other words, the OST is neither...
Page 403 - Seaborg is a member of the leading national and international scientific societies, including the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Chemical Society, American Nuclear Society, American Physical Society...

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