10 ORGANIZING SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH FOR WAR 



of the situation at a particular time would resemble a single frame of a 

 moving picture. As of June i, 1941, however, shortly before the reconstitu- 

 tion of the Committee as a part of the Office of Scientific Research and 

 Development, the organization was as follows: 



Division A (Armor and Ordnance) 

 R. C. Tolman, Chairman 

 Charles C. Lauritsen, Vice-Chairman (physicist, California Institute of 



Technology) 

 Section B (Structural Defense) 



John E. Burchard, Chairman (architectural engineer, Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology) 

 Section H (Investigations on Propulsion) 



C. N. Hickman, Chairman (physicist, Bell Telephone Laboratories) 

 Section S (Terminal Ballistics) 



H. D. Smyth, Chairman (physicist, Princeton University) 

 Section T (Proximity Fuzes for Shells) 



M. A, Tuve, Chairman (physicist, Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington) 

 Section E (Fuzes and Guided Projectiles) 



Alexander Ellett, Chairman (physicist. University of Iowa) 



Division B (Bombs, Fuels, Gases, Chemical Problems) 

 J. B. Conant, Chairman 



Roger Adams, Vice-Chairman (chemist. University of Illinois) 

 W. K. Lewis, Vice-Chairman (chemical engineer, M.I.T.) 

 Synthetic Problems 



Roger Adams, Division Vice-Chairman 

 Section A-i (Explosives) 



G. B. Kistiakowsky, Vice-Chairman (chemist, Harvard Uni- 

 versity) 

 Section A-2 (Synthetic Organics) 



Roger Adams, Chairman 

 Section A-3 (Detection of Persistent Agents) 



W. C. Johnson, Chairman (chemist. University of Chicago) 

 Section A-4 (Toxicity) 



Roger Adams, Acting Chairman 

 Physical Chemical Problems 



W. K. Lewis, Division Vice-Chairman 

 Section L-i (Aerosols) 



W. H. Rodebush, Chairman (chemist, University of Illinois) 

 Section L-2 (Protective Coatings) 



G. O. Curme, Jr., Chairman (chemist. Carbide and Carbon 

 Chemicals Corp.) 



