Inventing us science policy

Physics Today

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1998, Pages

  Blanpied, William A ^a,b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 11744276736     PISSN: 00319228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.882140     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. V. Bush, Science - The Endless Frontier: A Report to the President on a Program for Postwar Scientific Research, July 1945. Reprinted by NSF, Washington, DC, 1990.
2. J. R. Steelman, Science and Public Policy, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, August 1947. Reprinted by Arno Press, New York, NY, 1980.
3. Time, 3 April 1944.
4. J. M. England, A Patron for Pure Science: The National Science Foundation's Formative Years, Washington, DC: National Science Foundation, 1982, p.30. Parti, entitled "The Long Debate, 1945-50 (pp.9-112), is a detailed treatment of NSF's legislative history.
5. J. M. England, A Patron for Pure Science: The National Science Foundation's Formative Years, Washington, DC: National Science Foundation, 1982, p.30. Parti, entitled "The Long Debate, 1945-50 (pp.9-112), is a detailed treatment of NSF's legislative history.
6. C. V. Kidd, interview with the author, 13 May 1997.
7. J. R. Steelman, "A Program for the Nation," Vol. I of Science and Public Policy (ref. 2), pp. 70-71.
8. W. D. Carey, "Science and Public Policy," in Science, Technology and Human Values, Vol. 10, Winter 1985, pp. 7-16.
9. On 17 March 1954, President Eisenhower issued Executive Order 10521 "Concerning Government Scientific Research." drafted by Carey, which included provisions designed to compel NSF to carry out advisory functions mandated by the National Science Foundation Act of 1950. NSF Director Alan T. Waterman largely ignored the provisions.
10. W. D. Carey, interview with the author, 19 November 1986.