Government science

The first was that of the Atlas Computer Laboratory, which opened in summer 1964. The second was the publication of A Report of a Joint Working Group on Computers for Research in January 1966. This last is always called the Flowers Report, after its chairman B. H. (Brian) Flowers, who was then Langworthy Professor of Physics (in succession to Blackett) at Manchester. He was later to become a government science adviser, chairman of both the Science... 

So if science slowly did prove its industrial usefulness in fields apart from analysis, it was not carried out in industry itself, but at research institutions. The work was therefore dependent on individual initiatives from persons such as Klason, and on money existing either within the framework of these organisations, or in rare cases from the government. Science slowly proved its potential, and in 1918 the first industrial research institute was created by the paper industry... 

Bush was in the process of reorganizing government science when he received the NAS report. The NDRC, empowered equally with the military laboratories and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, had served for research but lacked the authority to pursue engineering development. Bush proposed a new umbrella agency with wide authority over all government science in the service of war, the Office of Scientific Research and Development. Its director—Bush—would report personally to Roosevelt. Bush prepared to move up to the OSRD by calling in Conant to take over the NDRC. And only after it was clear that I should shortly... 

Zimmerman, A. D. (1995). Toward a more democratic ethic of technological governance. Science, Technology, Human Values, 20(1), 86-107. 

Mesthene, Emmanuel G. 1964. Can Only Scientists Make Government Science Policy Science 145, no. 3629 (July 17) 237-40. 

Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Senior Fellowship, a NEC Fellowship, and a Japanese Government Science Technology Agency (STA) Fellowship. He was an Honorary Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Technolo in New Delhi. Dr. Nalwa has been cited in the Mu s Who in Science and En neering, Who s Who in America, Who s Who in the Worid and the Dictionary of International Biography. 

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