Handler, Philip

The late Philip Handler, president of the U.S. Academy of Sciences, played a key role in the success of the Conference. Thanks are also due to Professor Bryce Crawford, Home Secretary of the Academy, and his... 

The objective of this chapter is to describe some of the key trends, driving forces, and challenges that will set the future direction of the rapidly advancing field of silicon-based materials. In the process of identifying these key trends, two assumptions were made. The first assumption is that commercial applications will be a major impetus for the development of silicon-based polymers. The response of the late Philip Handler, former head of the National Academy of Science, to a question on science spending corroborates this assumption. Handler s reply (3) was... 

DNA. The most spectacular role of phosphates in life processes is as the central building block in nucleic acids. The non-scientific public — that is to say, almost everybody — is well acquainted with the concept that the genetic material is DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, but relatively few non-scientists know that DNA is a chain of diesters of phosphoric acid. Philip Handler told the story of a young man whom he met on an airplane, who told him that he knew all about nucleic acids, and really had only one question What is an add ... 

Handler,L., RegulatingPharmaceuticalPrices and Corporate R D Strategies in Britain and France, Strategies for New Technology-Case Studies From Britain and France, M. Sharp and P. Holmes (eds.)(New York, NY Philip Allan, 1989). 

The use of judgments by practitioners in public health risk assessment is a particularly thorny issue. Not only are there potential disciplinary differences in judgments in risk assessment but there are also differences in any particular biases that may be brought to the table. Problems of scientific bias or favoritism among scientists have been broadly recognized in past years, as seen in the 1980 essay. On Bias Does Where You Stand Really Depend on Where You Sit by Philip Handler, the then President of the NAS/NRC (Handler, 1980). The nature and scope of the issue has become increasingly difficult to recognize or characterize in the contemporary scientific community by its societal clients, constituents, and even by scientists themselves. 

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