INDEX 



"A Century of Scientific Conquest", 15 



Abelson, Philip H., 16 



accountability, 26, 29, 67, 80, 136, 138, 140 



Adams, Robert M., 37 



administrative costs, 67 



Agnew, Harold M., 66 



Agricultural Research Service (ARS), 52, 53 



Ahlgren and Walberg, 87 



Ahlgren, Andrew, 87 



Air Force, the, 13 



Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), 14 



American Can Company, 64 



American Chemical Society, 5, 8 



American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral 



Sciences, 66 

 American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 5 

 American Universities and Federal Research, 18 

 Ames Research Center, 48 

 Analytic Services, Inc., 74 

 Ancker-Johnson. Betsy, 42 

 Andrews, F. N., 39, 54 

 anti-intellectualism, 77, 78, 81 

 anti-trust, 35. 64, 65, 69, 137 

 applied research, 4, 5, 14, 16, 19, 24, 27, 35, 59, 68, 80, 



81. 137. 138, 144 

 potential of, 75 



pressure for, 26, 29, 59-63, 136, 140 

 Argonne National Laboratory, 78 

 Army Air Corps, 10 

 Arthur D. Little, 5 

 astronomy, 5, 10, 54 

 atomic energy (See energy ) 

 Atomic Energy Commission (AEC|, 12, 14, 16 

 atomic fission, 78 

 availability of money (See aJso funding), 26, 28, 137, 



142 

 Bankhead-Jones Act, 8 

 basic research. 5. 6, 7. 8. 9, 14. 16, 19, 23, 26, 29, 33. 34, 



35, 39, 42, 44, 48, 49, 59, 61, 62, 66, 68, 69, 74, 78, 



80. 136, 138, 140, 142 



as "applied", 14 



cost-effectiveness of, 18 



difficulty of defining, 14 



as fundamental, 23, 60, 137 



incentives for, 69 



justification of. 27, 145 



military support of, 19 



neglect of, 143 



publication of, 19 



reduced payoff, 137, 142 



role of, 68, 79 



understanding of, 27, 30 



value of, 73, 76 

 Battelle, Gordon, 6 

 Battelle Memorial Institute, 6, 74 

 Bean, Atherton, 52 

 Bell & Howell, 78 

 Bell Laboratories, 10, 35 

 Bell Telephone Company, 5 

 Bethlehem Steel Corporation, 62 

 biology, 10 

 biomedical research. 52, 53 



Federal support for, 61 

 Blickwede. D. J., 62 

 Borg-Warner Corporation, 35 

 Boston University, 38 

 botany, 4 



Bowker, Albert H., 48 

 Bradburn, Norman M., 41 

 Brookhaven National Laboratory, 65 

 Brown University, 49, 61 

 Bureau of Standards, 4 

 Bush, Vannevar, 10, 11 

 California Poll, 87 

 cancer research, 88 

 capital, 35, 137 



amount of, 34 



availability of. 33, 34, 44, 59 

 capital formation, 26, 28, 34 



obstacles to. 137, 142 



index 147 



