Science policy. See National science 

 policy. 



Science Reserve. See National Science 

 Reserve. 



Scientific attaches: recommendation for 

 appointment of, in certain embassies, 

 viii-xiv, 114; development of the pro- 

 gram for, since 1950, xiii-xiv. 



Scientific capital: basic scientific research 

 as, viii, 6; drawn upon during the 

 war, 189. 



Scientific collaboration. See Publications 

 and Scientific Collaboration, Division 

 of. 



Scientific cooperation. See International 

 scientific cooperation. 



Scientific enterprises, unresolved question 

 by the Bowman Committee as to 

 Federal aid to launching of, 108-109. 



Scientific information: release of, devel- 

 oped during the war, xviii, 186-192; 

 activity of NSF in dissemination of, 

 xviii-xix, 75, 116; NSF compilation 

 of policies on, xxiii. 



Scientific Personnel and Education, Di- 

 vision of, NSF, xx; proposals for, 

 35, 39. 



Scientific progress, significance of, in all 

 phases of American life, 10-12. 



Scientific publications, encouragement of, 

 as function of proposed National Re- 

 search Foundation, 35, 37, 39-40. 



Scientific research. See Research, scien- 

 tific. 



Scientific talent. See Talent. 



Scientific training: need for, related to 

 public welfare, 6-7; English scholars 

 quoted on need for and nature of, at 

 undergraduate level, 151-152. See 

 all Research entries; Talent. 



Scientists, need for professional partner- 

 ship between the military services 

 and, 17-18; assistance to, as function 

 of proposed National Research Foun- 

 dation, 117. See all Research en- 

 tries; Talent. 



Secondary schools: loss of talent in, and 

 variation of quality of education in, 

 147-149; need to assist able students 

 to complete education in, 149. See 

 also High schools; Schools; Talent. 



Security restrictions on wartime scientific 

 data, coordination required in lifting, 

 29-30. See also Scientific informa- 

 tion. 



Seismology, Ph.D. degrees in, 177. 



Selective Service policies, effect of, on 

 deficit in scientists, and recommended 



corrective action, 139-141, 158-160, 

 163. 



Serum albumin, 49, 53. 



Shapley, Harlow, member, Committee on 

 Discovery and Development of Scien- 

 tific Talent, 45, 136. 



Shock, studied, 53. 



Silliman, Benjamin, 83. 



Slichter, Sumner, x. 



Small business, research clinics as ad- 

 vantage to, 107-108. 



Small Business Act of 1958, x. 



Smallpox, 52. 



Smith, Homer W., secretary, Medical 

 Advisory Committee, 43, 48. 



Smithson, James, bequest for Smithsonian 

 Institution, 84. 



Smithsonian Institution: Federal funds 

 obligations for basic research, xxv; 

 creation of, 84. 



Social Function of Science, The, Bernal, 

 87, note 2. 



Social sciences: need to maintain balance 

 between talents in natural sciences, 

 medicine, and, xx, 23; undergradu- 

 ate degrees in, 177; statistics on re- 

 search in, 177; graduate school en- 

 rollments in, 178; warning not to 

 drain too many able students from 

 research in, for scientific research, 

 179. 



Social Sciences, Office of, NSF, xx, xxi. 



Socio-economic studies: relationships be- 

 tween socio-economic status, ability, 

 and level of education attained, 171- 

 176; relations between parental in- 

 come and college courses pursued, 

 174. 



Sociology, in NSF support programs, xx. 



Sox'iet Professional Manpower, National 

 Research Council, xxv. 



Space. See Aeronautical and Space Sci- 

 ences, Senate Committee on; Na- 

 tional Advisory Committee for Aero- 

 nautics; National Aeronautics and 

 Space Council; Science and Astro- 

 nautics, House Committee on. 



Sproul, Dr. Robert Gordon, President, 

 University of California: quoted, on 

 the citizenn.''s intelligence as the most 

 valuable national resource, 144. 



Standard of living: scientific progress re- 

 lated to, 10-12, 18, 74, 77; need for 

 program to locate and develop scien- 

 tific talent in armed services as basic 

 to postwar conditions of, 141. 



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