National Science Foundation proposed budget could see another increase

Proposed National Science Foundation Act, 1947: S. 526.

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A National Science Foundation

Pressed by the exigencies of war time, prompted by the success of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, and by the sincere, but naive, attempts at science legislation by Senator Kilgore during 1943 and 1944, and desiring to see what might be done further to promote the progress of science in war and in peace, the late President Roosevelt in November, 1944, requested Dr. Vannevar Bu...

The National Science Foundation

Proposed NIH budget increase too small to meet research needs.

I n an era of supposed budget surpluses and debt reduction, most researchers in the field of biomedical science had anticipated that the planned doubling of the budget for the National Institutes of Health by the year 2003 would remain on track. However, after the State of the Union address by President Clinton, most were chagrined to realize that he proposed to increase the NIH budget by just ...

National Science Foundation: Origins, hopes, and aspirations.

The origins of the National Science Foundation were in the visions of many scientists and federal statesmen during a decade of profound changes in the institutions of American science. But the concepts that underlie the Foundation reach back into the beginnings of our scientific endeavor in Colonial America; Franklin and Jefferson, scientists and statesmen, paved the way for close association b...