Nuffield College, University of Oxford, 

 151. 



Nursing, 177. 



Ochsner, Alton, member, Medical Advis- 

 or>' Committee, 43, 48. 



O'Donnell, J. Hugh, member. Committee 

 on Science and the Public Welfare, 



44, 72. 



Office of Scientific Research and Develop- 

 ment: Dr. Bush as director of, vii; 

 Dr. Bush's recommendation that por- 

 tions of wartime research programs 

 should be carried on in peacetime, 

 xii, 18; continuation by the military 

 services of research arrangements ini- 

 tiated by, xii-xiii; functions and emer- 

 gency nature of, 3, 33; wartime scien- 

 tific research by, 12, 190; scientific 

 mobilization by, 28-29; publication of 

 results of wartime research by, 29-30; 

 research sponsored by, on nonprofit 

 basis, 39; broad authorities to, and 

 relaxation of technical fiscal proce- 

 dures concerning research contracts, 

 39; medical advances attributable to 

 Committee on Medical Research of, 

 49, 52; cost of medical program to 

 July 1944, 49, 54; organization of 

 Committee on Medical Research 

 under, as wartime measure, 53; scope 

 of activity in medical research, 53-51, 

 55; report to U. S. Senate on need for 

 Federal support of medical research, 

 57; costs of contracts with colleges 

 and universities, 1943-44, 87; deci- 

 sions in early days of, on release of 

 medical-research data, 189; publica- 

 tion plans of, concerning release of 

 wartime-developed scientific data, 192. 



Oil companies, included in survey of re- 

 search in industrial laboratories, 133, 

 note 2. 



Organization and Administration of Re- 

 search, NSF compilation of science 

 policies on, xviii. 



Osborn, General Frederick H., letter from 

 Dr. Moe to, quoted on need for 

 scientific training for armed forces, 

 161. 



Oxford, University of (Nuffield College), 



Paleontology, Ph.D. degrees in, 177. 



Palmer, Walter W., chairman, Medical 

 Advisory Committee, 43, 47, 48; 

 transmittal of committee report, 47. 



Parasitology, development of, basic to med- 

 ical progress, xi, 14, 56. 



Parathyphoid, 52. 



Parsons, Dr. Charles L., quoted on waste 

 of scientists in World War II, 159. 



Patents: 



Dr. Bush on — 



Need for strengthening patent sys- 

 tems, to assist small industries, 7; 

 problems concerning patent laws 

 bearing upon industrial research, 21; 

 policy on, related to operations of 

 proposed National Research Founda- 

 tion, 38. 



Palmer Committee on — 

 Question of rights on discoveries 

 made under Government - sponsored 

 research, 61. 



Bowman Committee on — 

 Impact of system on research by in- 

 dustry, 76; needed strengthening of 

 the system, 109; recommendation con- 

 cerning policies of proposed National 

 Research Foundation, 117; reference 

 to policy concerning universities, re- 

 search institutions, and recipients of 

 grants, 117; policy concerning inven- 

 tions by Government employees, 105. 



Pathology: development of, basic to medi- 

 cal progress, xi, 14, 56; committee 

 on, 53. 



Pauling, Linus, member. Medical Advisor^' 

 Committee, 43, 48. 



Pearl Harbor, 139. 



Penicillin, 10, 13, 14, 49, 52, 53, 55. 



Pennsylvania, studies on high school grad- 

 uates and college attendance of high- 

 abilit\' students, 145, 170-171, 172, 

 173. 



Pepper, Senator Claude D., quoted, on 

 Government's role in sponsorship of 

 research, 63. 



Perazich, G., and Field, P., Industrial 

 Research and Changing Technology, 

 86, note 2. 



Personnel, scientific: 



Highlights of recommendations con- 

 cerning scientific personnel in the 

 Government and developments since 

 1950, ix. 



Dr. Bush on — 



Recommendations concerning, in the 



Government, 7. 



Bowman Committee ori — 

 Recommendations concerning, in the 

 Government, 76, 101-104. 



Moe Committee on — 

 Deficit in, due to wartime interrup- 

 tions to education, 150; deficit in 

 technological and scientific personnel 



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