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Briefings Point Out Special, Low‐Cost Research Opportunities

JAN 01, 1985

In an effort to highlight for government funding officials “areas in which incremental funding may lead to major advances,” a research briefing panel headed by Hans Frauenfelder (University of Illinois) and APS president Mildred Dresselhaus (MIT) conducted a series of briefings in Washington last Fall on “Selected Opportunities in Physics.” At the request of the President’s Office of Science and Technology Policy and the NSF, the panel had selected emergent fields of physics research in which, they felt, modest additional funding would exert “high leverage toward rapid progress.” Large facilities and well‐established research programs were explicitly excluded from consideration.

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