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...budget increases the NSF's funding from $911 million to about $1 billion and provides for additional research on human nutrition and the environment, sub-micron science, and laser chemistry...
...rise in support of this kind of research is surely going to be beneficial to Harvard and institutions like it," George C. Pimentel, deputy director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Washington, said yesterday...
Visions of Doom. The report notes an increase in foreign innovation. A decade ago, foreign inventions accounted for only 18% of the patents issued by the U.S. patent office; by 1973 they accounted for 30%. The NSF report also claims U.S. scientific literature has declined in both quality and quantity...
Some skeptics reject the NSF suggestion that American science is on the skids. "The U.S. is still the most productive nation in the world," said Nobel-prize winning Economist Paul A. Samuelson at last week's symposium. A few suspect that the alarm over U.S. scientific performance may be a ploy to win more money for research. Daniel S. Greenberg, editor and publisher of a Washington-based newsletter called Science and Government Report, wrote during a similar scare two years ago that "the elders of science are possessed by visions of doom" that can only be exorcised by more...
...many scientists confess concern over the future of U.S. science and admit there is some substance to the NSF report. In the years since World War II, many American firms have taken advantage of lower European and Japanese wages to do much of their research and development, not to mention manufacturing, abroad. As a result, said the M.I.T. scientists, other countries are ahead of the U.S. in certain areas, such as the development of supersonic passenger jets and the discovery and introduction of new drugs. European and Japanese efforts to catch and surpass the U.S. will probably increase. Said M.I.T...