FRONTIERS IN OCEANIC RESEARCH 

 (H.R. 6298) 



thursday, april 28, 1960 



House of Representatives, 

 Committee on Science and Astronautics, 



Washington, D.C. 



The committee met at 10 a.m., Hon. Victor L. Anfuso presiding. 



Mr. Anfuso. This meeting will come to order. 



Gentlemen, this morning we are going to open up hearings in con- 

 nection with H.R. 6298, a bill introduced by the distinguished chair- 

 man of this committee, Mr. Brooks, and which was referred to our 

 committee. 



The purpose of this bill is to amend the National Science Foundation 

 Act of 1950, to provide financial assistance to educational institutions, 

 for the development of teaching facilities in the field of oceanography 

 and to provide fellowships for graduate study in such field. 



Leading off this morning is a very distinguished professor, Dr. 

 Harrison Scott Brown, professor of geochemistry of the California 

 Institute of Technology, in Pasadena, Calif., and Chairman of the 

 Committee on Oceanography of the National Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. Brown has a very extensive biography. Because it will be of 

 interest to this committee, I am going to have the biography of Dr. 

 Brown entered in the record. 



(The biography of Dr. Brown is as follows:) 



Biography of Harrison Scott Brown 



Professor, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. Also : Chairman, 

 Committee of Oceanography, National Academy of Sciences-National Research 

 Council. 



Born : Sheridan, Wyo., September 26, 1917. 



B.S., University of California, 1938; Ph.D. (chemistry) Johns Hopkins, 1941. 

 Instructor, chemistry, Hopkins, 1941-42 ; research associate, plutonium project, 

 University of Chicago, 1942-43 ; assistant director, chemistry division, Clinton 

 Laboratory, Oak Ridge, 1943-46; assistant professor, Chemical Institute for 

 Nuclear Studies, Chicago, 1946-48 ; associate professor, 1948-51 ; professor geo- 

 chemistry, California Institute of Technology, 1951- . 



Prize, American Association Advancement of Science, 1947. Civilian with 

 Office of Scientific Research and Development, 1944. A.A. (Prize 1947) ; Chemi- 

 cal Society (award) (1952) ; Geological Society; Physical Society. 



Fields : Mass spectroscopy ; thermal diffusion, fluorine and plutonium chem- 

 istry ; meteoritics ; geochemistry ; planet structure ; geochronology. 



Mr. Anfuso. Dr. Brown, will you please come forward? 

 We are very happy to see you here, and we are glad you could 

 take the time off and come from California to the hearing. 

 Dr. Brown. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. 



