(NASA). 15, 16, 18, 52, 65, 75 

 National Bureau of Standards (NBS). 8 

 National Center for Atmospheric Research, 42 

 national defense, 9, 1 1 

 National Defense Education Act, 18 

 National Institutes of Health (NIH), 12. 14,39.76,80 

 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 



(NOAA). til 

 National Opinion Research Center (NORC), 41, 85, 



86, 87 

 National Research Council. 6 

 National Research Endowment, 6, 7 

 National Research Foundation, 11 

 national research policy (See research policy] 

 national research priorities, 26, 27, 41, 44, 138 

 National Science Board (NSB), 23, 25, 27 

 National Science Foundation (NSF1, 12,13, 18.24,39, 



41, 50, 56, 61, 62, 64, 76, 77, 80 

 national science policy (See research policy) 

 natural resources (See also materials), 35, 62 

 Naval Surface Weapons Center, 65 

 Naugle, John E., 52, 65 

 near-term relevance, 29, 137, 142 

 New Deal, 8 



New York University, 37 

 news media (See media ) 

 Nobel awards, 5 

 Noble, Daniel E., 36 

 Norstad, General Lauris, 10 

 Northrop Corporation, 54 

 Northwestern University, 51 

 NSF (See National Science Foundation) 

 nuclear energy (See energy ) 

 Nunn, Clyde, 85 

 occupational prestige, 86, 87 



Occupational Safety and Health Administration, 63 

 Office of Management and Budget (OMB), 163 

 Office of Naval Research (ONR). 10, 12 

 Office of Scientific Research and Development 



(OSRD), 9, 10, 12 

 Ohio State University Research Foundation, 6 

 Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, 48 

 Opinion Research Corporation, 82 

 Oregon Regional Primate Research Center, 75 

 Oregon State University, 76 

 Overberger, Charles G., 39 

 Pake, George L., 63 

 Panofsky, Wolfgang K. H., 43 

 paperwork, 59 

 patent policy and protection, 26, 29, 64, 137, 142 



legislation, 69 

 patents, 12 



peer-review system, 136, 138 

 Pennsylvania State University, 84 

 Perlmutter, Daniel D., 50 

 personnel (See also manpower) 



ceilings on, 52, 53 



management, 27, 29, 53, 56, 138, 143 



scientific and technical, 21, 26, 29, 137, 142 

 national policy on, 26, 55, 137 

 Ph.D. programs, 54 

 Ph.D.'s, 23, 48, 56 



job market for, 54 



young, new, 51, 52, 136 

 philanthropic foundations, 3, 5 

 philanthropy, 7, 9 

 physical sciences, 139, 140 

 physicians, 82 

 physics. 5, 10, 18, 54, 88 

 planning (See research planning) 

 policy (See research policy) 

 political activists, 84 

 political environment, 7, 35, 54 

 political rights, 91 

 pollution, 18, 79 

 polytechnic institutes, 4 

 "population bulge," 49 

 population growth, 90 

 post-Civil War period, 4 

 postdoctoral studies, 136 

 postwar scientific system, 19 



President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC), 15 

 President's Scientific Research Board, 12 

 press, the (See media) 

 pressure groups, 84 



priorities (See national research priorities) 

 private analytical laboratories, 4 

 Project Hindsight. 18 

 psychology, 61 

 public, the, 3, 55, 75, 76, 84, 85, 86, 89, 90, 136 



broad public, 97 



"potential public," 89, 91 

 public attitudes, 26, 30, 63, 75, 78. 81. 82, 84, 85. 87, 89, 

 139 



anti-science, 53, 61. 77 



influencing government, 83 



negative, 74, 79, 90, 140 

 "Public Attitudes Toward Science and Technology ", 



82 

 public confidence, 73, 74-75, 78, 79, 86, 87, 90, 137, 142 



loss of, 82 

 public education programs (See education programs) 

 public surveys, 82-91 

 "Public Understanding of Science: the Data We 



Have", 83 

 Purdue Opinion Poll. 88 

 Purdue Research Foundation, 6 

 Purdue University, 39, 54 

 pure research (See basic research) 

 Quin, L. D., 51 

 Randolph, Jennings, 8 

 rapid transit (See mass rapid transit) 



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