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PROGRAM 



SESSION I Thursday, May 14 



Official Welcome 



Dr. Detlev W. Bronk, President, The Rockefeller 



Institute 



Chairman, Dr. George W. Beadle, California Institute of 



Technology 



PAPERS PRESENTED 



The Importance of New Knowledge 

 Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer 



Institute for Advanced Study 



Basic Research in the United States 

 Dr. Alan T. Waterman 



National Science Foundation 



The Paradox of Choice 

 Dr. William O. Baker 



Bell Telephone Laboratories 



PANEL DISCUSSION 



Discussion Leader, Dr. George W. Beadle 



Panel (in addition to the speakers) 



Dr. Lawrence R. Hafstad, General Motors 



Corporation 

 Dr. Joseph C. Hinsey, New York Hospital-Cornell 



Medical Center 

 Dr. Ernst Mayr, Harvard University 



