Bowfnan Committee on — 

 Role of the Government to assist re- 

 search by industry, 73, 74, 75, 101; 

 impact of the patent system and taxa- 

 tion on research by industry, 76; 

 problem of transition between basic 

 research and industrial application, 78; 

 question of responsibility of industry' 

 for basic research, 79; expenditures 

 for scientific research by industry', 85- 

 89; research clinics as advantage to 

 small business, 107-108; responsibility 

 of proposed National Research Foun- 

 dation to promote research leading to 

 creation of new industries and to ex- 

 pedite transition from research to 

 technological application, 116, 117. 



Moe Committee on — 

 "Regents Plan," New York State, for 

 postwar educational opportunities for 

 persons released from wartime indus- 

 tries, 165; recruitment of talented stu- 

 dents by industry for applied science 

 as deterrent to expansion of talent for 

 basic research, 149, 169-170. 



Stewart Committee on — 

 Release of scientific information de- 

 veloped during the war as important 

 to, 187-192. See also Government- 

 Industry Relationships on Research; 

 Research, applied; Research, indus- 

 trial. 



Infections, airborne, 53; of wounds, 53. 



Infectious diseases, 14, 55. 



Influenza, 53. 



Information centers, functions of NSF in 

 providing, xviii. 



Insect control, 53. 



Insecticides, 10, 13, 49, 52, 53. 



Institutes, science: analysis of research ex- 

 penditures by, compared with expen- 

 ditures in leading universities, 125- 

 134. See also Research institutes. 



Institutes program for improving teaching 



of mathematics and science, xvii. 

 Insulin, 3, 54. 



Intelligence, relation of, to educational op- 

 portunity, 173, Table II. 



Intelligence of High School Seniors, The, 

 William F. Book, data from, 175-176. 



Interior, Department of: Federal funds 

 obligations for basic research by, xxv; 

 interest in scientific research, 31-32. 



Internal Revenue Code: revisions made in, 

 since 1950, to encourage research, x; 

 need for clarification on deductibility 

 of research and development costs, 7; 

 recommendation for amendment, to 

 strengthen industrial research, 21. See 

 also Tax laws. 



International Conference on the Peaceful 

 Uses of Atomic Energy, xv. 



International Geophysical Year, as exam- 

 ple of international scientific coopera- 

 tion, xiv-xv. 



International Polar Year, as example of 

 international scientific activity, xv. 



International Programs, Special, Office of, 

 in NSF, XX. 



International Scientific Activities, NSF 

 compilation of science policies on, 

 xxiii. 



International scientific conferences: U.S. 

 attendance at, xiv; problem of politi- 

 cal considerations in respect to foreign 

 scientists traveling in U. S., xiv; rec- 

 ommendation that proposed National 

 Research Foundation participate in 

 arrangements for, 113-114. 



International scientific cooperation: 



Highlights of recommendations and 

 developments since 1950, xiii-xv. 



Dr. Bush on — 



Importance of, 22, 31; need for co- 

 ordination in lifting wartime restric- 

 tions on exchange of scientific infor- 

 mation, 29; promotion of exchange of 

 scientific information as function of 

 proposed National Research Founda- 

 tion, 35, 37, 39-40. 



Palmer Committee on — 

 Proposed, in medical research, 51. 



Bowman Committee on — 

 Role of the Government to encourage 

 exchange of scientific information, 73, 

 75; U. S. participation in interna- 

 tional scientific enterprises and con- 

 gresses as means of, 113-114; function 

 of proposed National Research Foun- 

 dation to promote, 113, 114, 117; 

 international fellowships recommend- 

 ed as means of, 114; appointment of 

 scientific attaches in U. S. embassies 

 recommended as means of, 114. 



Inventors, assistance to, as function of pro- 

 posed National Research Foundation, 

 117. 



Iowa, University of: proposed utilization 

 of the examination project of, in the 

 fellowship and scholarship program, 

 181. 



Japan, 143. 



Jefferson, Thomas, influence upon Ameri- 

 can science, 83; support of ideas for 

 Government sponsored academ3% 84. 



Johns Hopkins University, xiii. 



Journalism,, 177. 



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