INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN SCIENCE 



TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1985 



House of Representatives, 

 Committee on Science and Technology, 



Task Force on Science Policy, 



Washington, DC. 



The task force met, pursuant to notice, at 10:04 a.m., in room 

 2318, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Don Fuqua (chairman 

 of the task force) presiding. 



Mr. Fuqua. The task force will be in order. 



The task force has scheduled 4 days of hearings on mternational 

 cooperation in science. These hearings will be both a contmuation 

 and an extension of the April 25 task force hearing on Internation- 

 al Cooperation in Big Science: High Energy Physics. 



The focus of these hearings will remain on international coopera- 

 tion in big science because of the important policy issues facing the 

 Federal Government in this area. However, other disciplines \yill 

 be considered, as well as a number of additional issues concerning 

 international cooperation in science in general. 



The hearings on international cooperation in science will consid- 

 er three sets of issues: One, international cooperation in big sci- 

 ence; two, the impact of international cooperation on research pri- 

 orities; and, three, coordination in management of international co- 

 operative research. . ,. . . 1 J /-. 4- 



We are privileged to have a number of distinguished Government 

 and academic scientists and scientific administrators to appear as 

 witnesses. Today's first witness is the distinguished physicist, Ur. 

 Victor Weisskopf of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His nu- 

 merous awards and honors include membership in the National 

 Academy of Sciences and recipient of the National Medal ot Sci- 



Professor Weisskopf made pivotal contributions over 5 years to 

 CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics. He became 

 Director-General of CERN in 1961, just after the first accelerators 

 were being turned on, and served until 1965. Under his leadership, 

 CERN developed into one of the world's most successful research 

 institutions. , . . 



Dr. Weisskopf, we will be delighted to hear from you at this time. 



[A biographical of Dr. Weisskopf follows:] 



Dr. Victor Frederick Weisskopf 



Dr. Victor F. Weisskopf, institute professor and former head of the Department of 

 Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is widely known for his theo- 



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