Quoted from “An Act to Incorporate the National Academy of Sciences,” approved by President Lincoln March 3, 1863. Reproduced as Appendix A in Phillip M. Boffey, The Brain Bank of America: An Inquiry into the Politics of Science. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975)
2.
Ibid., pp. 5–6
3.
Ibid., pp. 7–8
4.
Ibid., Chapters 3–11
5.
Ibid., pp. 84–86
6.
Ibid., p. 84.
7.
From the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 (S. 247). Quoted in Milton Lomask, A Minor Miracle: An Informal History of the National Science Foundation. (Government Printing Office, 1976), p. 205
8.
Ibid., p. 206.
9.
Ibid., p. 206.
10.
Ibid., p. 46.
11.
Ibid., p. 35.
12.
Ibid., pp. 38–43
13.
This report, written by Bush with the assistance of other scholars, was produced in response to a request from President Roosevelt for assistance in devising ways that the science support techniques developed by the wartime Office of Scientific Research and Development could serve the national interest in peacetime
14.
Earlier legislation introduced in Congress to establish an ongoing federal science agency had not gained the support of the United States science establishment. The bill introduced in 1945 did have the support of many of the most influential members of the science establishment, especially Vannevar Bush. See Lomask, op cit., pp. 39–43
15.
Ibid., p. 51.
16.
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