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...Armstrong says that the differences in scale and available resources—rather than the type of work done in each setting—distinguish industrial research from academic research...
...Though working in industry means giving up some freedom over what projects a scientist can choose to pursue, Armstrong points out that academic scientists are also seriously constrained by the realities of funding grants...
...During all of their research, they never wrote anything more than two pages long asking for money,” says Armstrong...
...Since his retirement in 1993, Armstrong has remained actively involved with the advancement of science in the academic and public sectors. He has served on the National Science Board, the NSF’s board of directors; the National Research Council; the Governing Board of the American Institute of Physics; and the Overseer’s Visiting Committee to Harvard’s Department of Engineering and Applied Science...
...Armstrong attributes his success in working with so many different branches of science and technology partly to the similarities in the kind of thinking and analysis required in every case, and to his rigorous early training...