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* [https://www.nsf.gov/about/history/EndlessFrontier_w.pdf 75th Anniversary Edition] | * [https://www.nsf.gov/about/history/EndlessFrontier_w.pdf 75th Anniversary Edition] | ||
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== President Roosevelt's Letter == | |||
In a letter addressed to Vannevar Bush dated November 17, 1944, President Roosevelt requested his recommendations on the following points: | |||
# What can be done, consistent with military security, and with the prior ap- proval of the military authorities, to make known to the world as soon as possible the contributions which have been made during our war efort to scientifc knowledge? | |||
# With particular reference to the war of science against disease, what can be done now to organize a program for continuing in the future the work which has been done in medicine and related sciences? | |||
# What can the Government do now and in the future to aid research activities by public and private organizations? | |||
# Can an efective program be proposed for discovering and developing scientifc talent in American youth so that the continuing future of scientifc research in this country may be assured on a level comparable to what has been done during the war? | |||
== Introduction == | |||
Bush states that scientific progress is essential for (1) the war against disease, via extended government financial support to basic medical research in U.S. medical schools and universities; (2) national security, via military research during peacetime, supported by a civilian-controlled organization with funds from Congress and close liaison with the U.S. Army and Navy; and (3) public welfare, via a plentiful number of men and women trained in science, strengthened centers of basic research, where creative scientific exploration can flourish with minimal pressure for immediate, tangible results. | |||
== The War Against Disease == | |||
== Science and the Public Welfare == | |||
== Renewal of our Scientific Talent == | |||
== A Problem of Scientific Reconversion == | |||
== The Means to the End == | |||
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There are roughly two schools. The larger more prestigious school thinks it was about economics. | There are roughly two schools. The larger more prestigious school thinks it was about economics. | ||
The smaller school thinks the economics were downstream of science and Embedded Growth Obligations. | The smaller school thinks the economics were downstream of science and [[Embedded Growth Obligations]]. | ||
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|content=WTF Happened In 1971? | |||
Very much understudied era in history. The fork in the road, when stagnation began to spread. | |||
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|content=A lot changed for reasons *other* than the [[Science, The Endless Frontier (1945)|"Endless Frontier"]]. | |||
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|content=@dvijmankad It's not that hard. The Manhattann project was filled with iconoclasts. | |||
Also: Feynman's reception at Shelter Island after the war. Dyson's victory over Oppenheimer at the IAS. Watson vs Venter on the Genome. Smale on the beaches of Rio. Serge Lang at Yale. Schwinger's epigram. | |||
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|content=All of that was from the Manhattan project into the present. Yes, big science changed things...but it was [[Mansfield Amendment (1969)|Mansfield]], [[Bayh-Dole Act (1980)|Dole-Bayh]], [[Eilberg Amendment (1976)|Eilberg]], [[IMMACT90]] etc that lost us the freedom of the individual inside the universities. | |||
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== Reference == | == Reference == | ||