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University research and government support

JAN 01, 1954
The following paper is based on Dr. Berkner’s remarks at the Seventh Annual Conference on the Administration of Research, University of California, Berkeley. September 2, 1953.
Lloyd V. Berkner

We have been considering the broad questions of the need for research and its effective utilization in terms of industry, the universities, and the Federal Government. Now we come to the all‐important question of who is to foot the bill and why.

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  1. 1. Truscot, Bruce*, (pseud.) Red Brick University, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1943.

  2. 2. Food and Drug Law Forum Report, “Human Life Span May Reach 125 Years in Two Centuries”, Chemical and Engineering News, Vol. 31, No. 20 (May 18, 1953).https://doi.org/CENEAR

  3. 3. Stratton, J. A., “Research and the University”, Chemical and Engineering News, Vol. 31, No. 25 (June 22, 1953).https://doi.org/CENEAR

  4. 4. Tuve, M. A., Annual Report of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1951–1952.

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Lloyd V. Berkner, Associated Universities, Inc..

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