Veterinary medicine, 64, note 1. 



War, resources of proposed National Re- 

 search Foundation to be available in 

 event of, 117; recommendation for 

 establishment of a National Science 

 Reserve to be available upon declara- 

 tion of, 138, 139, 153. See also 

 National Science Reserve. 



War, Secretary of: joint statement, with 

 Secretary of the Navy, to the Na- 

 tional Academy of Sciences, regard- 

 ing scientific progress related to the 

 national security, 17; release of 

 results of wartime medical research 

 to the public, 28; Research Board 

 for National Security established at 

 request of, 33. 



War Service School, recommended, for 

 special training of veterans and for- 

 mer workers in war industries, 165. 



Waring, James J., member. Medical Ad- 

 visory Committee, 43, 48. 



Warner, W. Lloyd, et al, Who Shall he 

 Educated: The Challenge of Un- 

 equal Opportunities, data from, 172- 

 174. 



Wartime Health and Education, Subcom- 

 mittee on, of U. S. Senate Commit- 

 tee on Education and Labor: reports 

 of OSRD to, on need for Federal 

 support of medical research, 57. 



Washington, George, plan for a national 

 university, 84. 



Weapons, need for a Government agency 

 to support research on, 9. See Re- 

 search, military. 



Weaver, Warren, member. Committee on 

 Science and the Public Welfare, 44, 



72. 



Weed, Lewis H., chairman, Division of 

 Medical Sciences, National Research 

 Council: quoted, on need for Federal 

 support for medical research, 58. 



Welch Fellowships in Medicine, 98. 



What Happens to High School Graduates, 

 G. Lester Anderson and T. J. Bern- 

 ing, data from, 171-172. 



Who Shall he Educated: The Challenge Zoology', Ph.D. degrees in, 178. 



of Unequal Opportunities, W. Lloyd 

 Warner, et ah, data from, 172-174. 



Whooping cough, 54. 



Wilkes Exploring Expedition, Federal sup- 

 port of, 84. 



Wilson, Carroll L., member. Committee 

 on Publication of Scientific Informa- 

 tion, 45, 188. 



Wilson, E. B., member. Committee on 

 Discovery and Development of Sci- 

 entific Talent, 45, 136. 



Wilson, Robert E., member. Committee 

 on Science and the Public Welfare, 

 44, 72. 



Wistar Institute, 86, note 6. 



Wood, Ben D. See Learned, W. S. 



World War II, progress of medicine dur- 

 ing, xi, 49, 52-53; contributions to 

 scientific knowledge during, 1, 3; re- 

 duction in death rate from disease 

 from rate in World War I, 5, 13; 

 recommendation that scientific knowl- 

 edge developed during, be made 

 available, 8, 28-30; advances in 

 medicine during, made possible by 

 backlog of scientists and scientific 

 data, 13, 49, 52; period between 

 World War I and, marked by U.S. 

 leadership in medical research, 15; 

 scientific developments during, 17; 

 deficit in scientific students as result 

 of, 24, 25, 139, 150, 158-160; mobili- 

 zation of science during, 28; effect 

 of, on additions to basic medical 

 research, 49, 54; effect of, on scien- 

 tific training and research, 91-93; 

 189-192. 



Wrather, William E., member, Commit- 

 tee on Science and the Public Wel- 

 fare, 44, 72. 



X-ray, 5 3 . 



Yellow fever, 13, 49, 52. 



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