Report of the National Research Council. 1923/24 | publ. 1925U.S. Government Printing Office, 1925 |
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A. A. Michelson Academy of Sciences Advisory board Albert AMERICAN SOCIETY Bibliographies biological sciences biology and agriculture C. M. Jackson Calif Carnegie Institution Charles chemistry and chemical chief College Columbia University Concilium Bibliographicum Conn Crop Protection Institute D. C. Committee director division of biology division of engineering division of Federal division of medical Education Board Electric engineering and industrial Enrique Zanetti ex officio executive board EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Chairman Federal relations Fellowships in medicine fund Gano Dunn geologist Geophysical Union George Harvard University industrial research International Mathematical Union Johns Hopkins University L. L. Thurstone maintenance medical sciences National Academy National Research Council Ohio organization Oswald Veblen problems professor of chemistry professor of geology professor of mathematics professor of physics R. A. Millikan representing research fellowships research information service Rockefeller Foundation Street Subcommittee United States Bureau United States Navy Vernon Kellogg vice chairman Washington Welding Yerkes York City
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Page 169 - The National Research Council was organized in 1916 at the request of the President by the National Academy of Sciences, under its congressional charter, as a measure of national preparedness. The work accomplished by the council in organizing research and in securing cooperation of military and civilian agencies in the solution of military problems demonstrates its capacity for larger service. The National Academy of Sciences is therefore requested to perpetuate the National Research Council, the...
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Page 169 - Council to promote research in the mathematical, physical, and biological sciences, and in the application of these sciences to engineering, agriculture, medicine, and other useful arts, with the object of increasing knowledge, of strengthening the national defense, and of contributing in other ways to the public welfare, as expressed in the Executive order of May 11, 1918.
Page 74 - Maurice Holland, director, division of engineering and industrial research, National Research Council, New York City. International Management Congress, Prague, July 21-24, 1924: Maurice Holland, director, division of engineering and industrial research, Nations!
Page 169 - ... 4. To serve as a means of bringing American and foreign investigators into active cooperation with the scientific and technical services of the War and Navy Departments and with those of the civil branches of the Government. 5. To direct, the attention of scientific and technical investigators to the present importance of military and industrial problems in connection with the war, and to aid in the solution of these problems by organizing specific researches. 6. To gather and collate scientific...
Page 170 - In general, to stimulate research in the mathematical, physical and biological sciences, and in the application of these sciences to engineering, agriculture, medicine and other useful arts, with the object of increasing knowledge, of strengthening the national defense, and of contributing in other ways to the public welfare.
Page 71 - Co. to examine the account books of the National Academy of Sciences and of the National Research Council for the year ending June 30, 1925.