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Shaping the Future: Science and Technology 2030

MAY 01, 1991
Questions about today’s science policies and education will need to be answered with vision and boldness for a robust and productive future.
Frank H. T. Rhodes

In observing its 40th anniversry last year, the National Science Foundation held a special symposium to celebrate its achievements and to look ahead to the next 40 years for the foundation as well as for all of science and technology in America. NSF’s accomplishments are impressive. These include a major role in producing successive generations of scientists and engineers; in supporting pace‐setting research in a multitude of fields, including some, such as high‐temperature superconductivity, that it did much to initiate; and in monitoring the pulse of the nation’s science and engineering enterprise.

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Frank H. T. Rhodes, University of Birmingham, England.

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Volume 44, Number 5

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