FRONTIERS IX OCEANIC RESEARCH 

 (H.R. 6298) 



FRIDAY. APRIL 29, 1960 



House of Representatives, 

 c iommitteb on science and astronautics, 



Washington, D.C. 



Following a presentation of Navy and Marine Corps colors by 

 Secretary of the Navy William B. Franke to the committee at 10 a.m., 

 the committee resumed its hearing at 10 :25 a.m., Hon. Overton Brooks 

 ( chairman ) presiding. 



The Chairman. The committee will come to order. 



This morning, gentlemen of the committee, Ave conclude these hear- 

 ings. We have Dr. James H. Wakelin, Jr., Assistant Secretary of 

 the Navy for Research and Development ; speaking on "Next 10 Years 

 of Research in the Oceanic Sciences," and Dr. James E. Lipp, direc- 

 tor of development planning, Lockheed Aircraft Corp., on the sub- 

 ject of "Pioneer Ventures in Underseas Engineering." 



Dr. Wakelin, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, we are very, very 

 happy to have you here, sir, this morning, and mighty glad that you 

 participated with us too in the presentation of the flag that we just 

 had. 



(Dr. Wakelin's biography is as follows :) 



James H. Wakelin, Jr. 



James H. Wakelin, Jr. was born in Holyoke, Mass.. on May 6, 1911. He 

 attended the public schools in Holyoke, graduating from high school in 1928. 

 He received an A.B. degree in physics from Dartmouth College in 1932. During 

 1932-34 he attended Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, where he was 

 granted a B.A. degree in the natural sicences in 1934 and a M.A. degree in 1939. 

 Dr. Wakelin received his Ph. D. degree in physics from Yale University in 1940, 

 where he specialized in the field of ferro-magnetism. During 1939-43 Dr. Wake- 

 lin was a senior physicist in the physical research department of the B. F. 

 Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio. His work there was concerned with the structure 

 and physical properties of natural and synthetic rubber, and with X-ray dif- 

 fraction and electron microscope studies of high polymers. 



From 1943 to 1945 he was ordnance staff officer to the Coordinator of Research 

 and Development, Navy Department, Washington, D.C. During 1945-46, as a 

 lieutenant commander, U.S.N.R., he was head of the Chemistry, Mathematics, 

 and Mechanics and Materials Sections of the Planning Division, Office of Re 

 search and Inventions, and was active in the planning and organization of the 

 Navy's program to sponsor basic scientific research, now under the direction of 

 the Office of Naval Research. Following World War II, Dr. Wakelin joined a 

 group of former Navy research scientists in the establishment of Engineering 

 Research Associates, Inc., of Washington, D.C, and St. Paul, Minn., and held 

 the position of director of research. While with this company he was also 

 director of the field survey group of OXR Project Squid under contract to 

 Princeton University. In 194S he became associate director of research of the 

 Textile Research Institute in Princeton, and in June 1951 was appointed director 



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