A Letter to the Editor
DOI: 10.1063/1.3067548
The broadplanners and program makers of many agencies have shown in the last few years a growing and disquieting tendency to use the words “development”, “applied research”, “basic research”, etc., in a context not conforming with time honored usage. A code can nearly be established to translate various documents into the physicist’s language thus: For “basic research” read “applied research”, for “applied research” read “development”, for “development” read “engineering”, and so forth.
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Marcel J. E. Golay. Signal Corps Engineering Laboratories, Fort Monmouth, N.J..
