Address 



by 

 The Honorable Emilio Q. Daddario 



United States Congress 



I should like to thank the Office of Naval Research and the 

 National Academy of Sciences for inviting me to participate in 

 this program which marks a singular event in the history of 

 science and the Government. The skill, vigor, and imagination 

 of the men who share with me this stage today, and the in- 

 stitutions which they represent, are largely responsible for the 

 remarkable solutions which we have found here in the United 

 States for the complex problems that are encountered when 

 science, the university community and the Government mix. 



There is first of all the National Academy of Sciences with 

 which I have had frequent contacts during the last several 

 years. The steadily growing span of its advisory activities has 

 had a significant share in establishing the atmosphere of mu- 

 tual reliance between the leaders in the world of science and 

 of public affairs. Through the establishment of the Edwin 

 B. Wilson Award, the Academy has now taken a further step 

 in strengthening the link between science and the Government. 



Next there is the Office of Naval Research whose twenty 

 productive years of activity have been duly noted this morning 

 for their contributions to the design and the structure of 

 the best possible relationships between science and government. 

 Many who have made their careers in the Federal service 

 are alumni of the Office of Naval Research. It is a pleasure to 

 recognize ONR as a proving ground for the ideas and for the 

 men who are now formally to be recognized through the E. B, 

 Wilson Award. 



At the center, however, of the activities that concern us here 



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