Figure 34 



Industrial Basic Research Expenditures, 



by Field of Science, 1967-70'" 



Current dollars 



(Millions of Dollars) 

 250 



Constant 1958 dollars d" 



(Millions of Dollars! 



Chemisfry 



200 • 



Engineering 



Chemisfry 



150 - 



150 — _ 



Physics & astronomy 



100 



100 ■ 



Physics & asfronomy 



Life sciences 



50 — 



Mafhematics 



1 Environmenfal sciences I 



.^, W ^»« ^a* i 



Mathematics 

 I Environmental sciences 1 



1967 -68 69 



(a! GNP price deflator was used to convert current to constant dollars 

 SOURCE National Science Foundation. 



70 1967 



'69 



45 



