Science Service Organization

The readiness with which many organizations and individuals collaborated with each other and with the Science Service made possible tests on an imusually large scale, and the principle of insect control by thermal aerosol fogs has been developed and perfected rapidly. It has taken only 5 years to progress from a mere idea to practical use with helicopters and jet engines. 

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Food Policy and Food Science Service Nutrition Division. 1970. Amino acid content of foods and biological data on proteins. FAO Nutritional Studies No. 24, Rome. 

During the 1930s, Science Service, a not-for-profit independent news organization, promulgated an approach to popularizing science which favored audience preferences over scientific agendas and attended to industry as well as academic research interests. Stories about chemistry and chemists harmonized well with Science Service s emphasis on research utility and relevance. This chapter describes examples from syndicated news reports, radio broadcasts, a newspaper series called Fabrics of the Future , and a department store exhibit on chemistry that traveled through the United States in 1939-40. 

This section outlines aspects of the organization s naissance and original direction which are relevant to understanding how it operated during the 1930s. No comprehensive history of Science Service yet exists this discussion relies therefore on new archival research as well as on work by David Rhees and other historians whose research has focused on the group s early years.4... 

What can the history of Science Service reveal about public images of chemistry and other parts of science and about how or why scientists engaged in the popularization process Was the organization merely a promotional agent for scientists, or did it play a more complex, subtle role Because Science Service, Inc., continued beyond those first decades, and focuses today on science education and the publication of the small weekly magazine Science News, there has been a tendency to see the past mirrored in the present, to regard its mission today as reflective of its initial purposes and approaches. 

Monnery N.,1998. The costs of accidents and work-related ill-health to a cheque clearing department of a financial services organization. Safety Science, Volume 31, Issue 1, March 1998, Pages 59-69. 

Bettencourt, L. A. and Brown, S. W. (2003), "Role stressors and customer-oriented boundary-spanning behaviors in service organizations," Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 31 (4), 394-408. 

L. M. Miller, Investigation of Selected Potential Environmental Contaminants Butadiene and its Oligomers. Report 1978, EPA-560/2-78-008, Science Information Service Organization, Franklin Research Center, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Hunter CN, Niederman RA and Clayton RK (1981). In Akoyunoglou G, ed. Photosynthesis, Vol. Ill, Structure and molecular organization of the photosynthetic apparatus, pp. 539-546. Balaban International Science Services, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

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