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Daddario wants bigger NSF role

MAR 01, 1966

DOI: 10.1063/1.3048106

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The Daddario subcommittee has asked that the National Science Foundation “should take the initiative and be held broadly responsible for the nation’s science resources, disengaging the Office of Science and Technology and the President’s science advisory committee from their detailed oversight in this area.” To further this goal, the subcommittee proposes, among other things, that NSF evaluate the state of the various scientific disciplines and their resources, direct research “to help bring the scientific base for new and emerging technologies required in the national interest,” and channel more effort into the social sciences.

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Volume 19, Number 3

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