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Structure of matter: A five‐year outlook

DEC 01, 1979
Unity is the prevailing theme of the physical‐science chapter in a report to Congress on the prospects for scientific and technological resolution of nationally significant problems.
Robert G. Sachs

What current and emerging problems of national significance can be identified through scientific research? What are the opportunities for, and constraints on, the use of new and existing scientific and technological capabilities toward a resolution of these problems?

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References

  1. 1. See, for example, E. P. Wigner, Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, 13 (no. 1), February 1960.

  2. 2. V. Weisskopf in Science, Invention and Social Change (A Rosenfeld, ed.), General Electric Co., Schenectady, N.Y. (1978); page 17.

More about the authors

Robert G. Sachs, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago.

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