What ever happened to federal funds?

Craig Hosmer

doi:10.1063/1.3035004

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What ever happened to federal funds?

JUN 01, 1968

When federal funding contracts while research expands, a realignment of science goals with those of the sociopolitical community is increasingly urgent.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3035004

Craig Hosmer

IT HAS BEEN SAID that the way to get rich quick is to many a rich woman. But that is not the only way as the scientific community discovered early in the 1950’s. Its way was to romance a rich uncle.

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Craig Hosmer, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, U. S. House of Representatives.

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