Address of Welcome 
Naval research is also guided by the Naval Research Advisory Committee, which is 
composed of leaders in American industry as well as academic research. Utilizing the 
thinking of such men as Nobel prize-winner I. Rabi, we are kept alert to areas on which a 
greater concentration of research is needed. 
ONR also recognized at the start that we would need to depend greatly on the European 
scientific community, and for this purpose we established our branch office in London. 
From there we maintain close liaison with all the important research centers in Europe and 
the Middle East. 
Other government and military research agencies later established, such as the National 
Science Foundation, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the Office of Scientific Research of 
the U.S. Air Force, I like to feel have followed the ONR pattern to a more or less degree. 
In fact, the National Science Foundation even took our first chief scientist for its first and 
present Director. 
Naturally, the Navy is proud of pioneering in the widespread, large-scale support of 
research by the U.S. Government: More important than that, however, is the fact that we 
have helped the American scientific community in producing a steady flow of brilliant ideas 
in recent years. 
Finally, it is important to emphasize that while the products of naval research are 
designed primarily for military use, it is our hope, even our burning dream, that their greatest 
use will be their exploitation by industry to promote the peaceful progress of civilization. 
This dream I am sure we share with all who have joined together this pleasant morning in 
Scheveningen. 
