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Choosing research proposals

APR 01, 1966
Physics Today

Lately there has been some talk charging that federal agencies, when deciding on individual project support, give greater weight to proposal content than to individual accomplishment, to proposal pressure in a field than to the needs and opportunities in the field, PHYSICS TODAY sought to determine whether government agencies, such as the National Science Foundation, do in fact follow such criteria. We also tried to find out whether the agencies have established adequate followup evaluation of research results.

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