Question 



"What can the Government do now and in the future to aid research 

 activities bv pubhc and private organizations? The proper roles of public 

 and of pri\ate research, and their interrelation, should be carefully 

 considered. ' 



Committee 



Dr. Isaiah Bowman, chairman; president of Johns Hopkins University. 



Dr. J. T. Tate, vice chairman; research professor of physics, University of 

 Minnesota. 



Dr. W. Rupert Maclaurin, secretarv; professor of economics, Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology. 



Dr. 01i\er E. Bucklev, president of the Bell Telephone Laboratories. 



Dr. Weaker C. Coffev, president of the Uni\ersitv of Minnesota. 



Mr. Oscar S. Cox, deputy administrator of the Foreign Economic Admin- 

 istration. 



Col. Bradlev Dewev, president of Dewey & Almv Chemical Co. 



Dr. Clarence A. Dvkstra, prox'ost of the Uni\'ersitv of California at Los 

 Angeles. 



Dr. C. P. Haskins, director of Haskins Laboratories. 



Dr. Edwin H. Land, president and director of research, Polaroid Corpora- 

 tion. 



Dr. Charles E. MacOuigg, dean of the College of Engineering, Ohio State 

 Uni\'ersitv. 



Dr. Harold G. Moulton, president of the Brookings Institution. 



Re\'. ]. Hugh O'Donnell, president of the LIni\ersit\' of Notre Dame. 



Dr. I. I. Rabi, professor of phvsics, Columbia Uni\'ersit^' (recipient of Nobel 

 Award). 



Dr. Warren Wea\'er, director for natural sciences. Rockefeller Foundation. 



Dr. Robert E. Wilson, chairman of the board, Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. 



Dr. William E. \\^-ather, director, LI. S. Geological Survev. 



Question 



"Can an effective program be proposed for discovering and developing 

 scientific talent in American vouth so that the continuing future of scien- 

 tific research in this country mav be assured on a le\'el comparable to what 

 has been done during the war? ' 



Committee 



Dr. Henr\' Allen Moe, chairman; secretar\'-general of the John Simon Gug- 

 genheim Memorial Foundation. 



Mr. Lawrence K. Frank, secretary. 



Mr. Henrv Chauncev, assistant secretarv. 



Dr. Henr\' A. Barton, director of the American Institute of Phvsics. 



Dr. C. Lalor Burdick, special assistant to the president, E. I. du Pont de 

 Nemours & Co. 



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