Word: vannevar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knows all this better than the man who led U.S. science to war: Dr. Vannevar Bush, wartime head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development. But Dr. Bush is hopeful that things are changing. In the first issue of Physics Today, he declares that U.S. science is now putting less emphasis on "practical" work and digging intofundamentals...
...scientific knowledge and the technical procedure," but not the industrial capacity, to build the atomic bomb. (This testimony came from Defense Secretary James V. Forrestal, who said he was quoting Dr. Vannevar Bush, chairman of the Research and Development Board. When Russia would have the capacity, Forrestal was not prepared...
...Vannevar Bush, chairman of the Research & Development Board, and some other top brass, seconded his motion. But newsmen were not so sure that even "voluntary censorship" was needed. Forrestal conceded that there have been only two major leaks since war's end. (One was Aviation Week's story on supersonic flight; the other, a Denver Post article on the disposal of atomic rubbish.) And many a paper feared that voluntary censorship would be an entering wedge. The answer, newsmen felt, is not voluntary censorship but a tightening up of Government organizations to make sure that secrets...
Insistence that pure science must remain free from control by "practical" considerations was voiced by J. Robert' Oppenheimer '26, director of the Institute for Advanced Study, as he, President Conant, and Vannevar Bush, president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, addressed a Harvard Club of Boston hanquet last night celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Lawrence Scientific School...
...Vannevar Bush, director of the Carnegie Institution in Washington, and J. Robert Oppenheimer '26, director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey, will give guest speeches at the banquet, while President Conant will outline the development of science since the creation of the Lawrence Scientific School spurred laboratory research and teaching in the United States...