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Applications of Science

FEB 01, 1953
V. Bush, on Basic and Applied Research

DOI: 10.1063/1.3061145

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In reviewing some of the outstanding contributions to applied science made during the past fifty years as a result of the programs in basic research of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Vannevar Bush, president of the Institution, had some things to say about the difference between fundamental and applied research in his annual report for 1952, released last December.

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