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... physics and chemistry , makes a total of $ 1,000,000 available to the council for fellowships . The other is the sum of $ 85,000 for the cleaning up of certain outstanding obliga- tions of the Concilium Bibliographicum , an ...
... physics and chemistry , makes a total of $ 1,000,000 available to the council for fellowships . The other is the sum of $ 85,000 for the cleaning up of certain outstanding obliga- tions of the Concilium Bibliographicum , an ...
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... physics and chemistry is as follows : Simon Flexner , chairman , director of research laboratories , Rockefeller ... Physics , California Institute of Tech- nology , Pasadena , Calif .; Augustus Trowbridge , professor of physics ...
... physics and chemistry is as follows : Simon Flexner , chairman , director of research laboratories , Rockefeller ... Physics , California Institute of Tech- nology , Pasadena , Calif .; Augustus Trowbridge , professor of physics ...
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... physics , California Insti- tute of Technology . Augustus Trowbridge , professor of physics , Princeton University . INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION , ROME , MAY 2 . R. G. Aitken , astronomer , Lick Observatory , University of ...
... physics , California Insti- tute of Technology . Augustus Trowbridge , professor of physics , Princeton University . INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION , ROME , MAY 2 . R. G. Aitken , astronomer , Lick Observatory , University of ...
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... physicists , and psychologists is already completed . The value and use of this file is indicated by the fact that ... physics , chemistry , astron- omy , and mathematics are well advanced and will be 46 ANNUAL REPORT NATIONAL ACADEMY ...
... physicists , and psychologists is already completed . The value and use of this file is indicated by the fact that ... physics , chemistry , astron- omy , and mathematics are well advanced and will be 46 ANNUAL REPORT NATIONAL ACADEMY ...
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... physics bibliographies . National research fellowships in physics and chemistry . - There are now 15 active fellows in physics and 22 active fellows in chemistry , with definite new appointments of 3 in physics and 6 in chemistry ...
... physics bibliographies . National research fellowships in physics and chemistry . - There are now 15 active fellows in physics and 22 active fellows in chemistry , with definite new appointments of 3 in physics and 6 in chemistry ...
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Page ix - States as may be designated, and the Academy shall, whenever called upon by any department of the Government, investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art, the actual expense of such investigations, examinations, experiments, and reports to be paid from appropriations which may be made for the purpose, but the Academy shall receive no compensation whatever for any services to the Government of the United States.
Page 163 - To promote cooperation in research, at home and abroad, in order to secure concentration of effort, minimize duplication, and stimulate progress; but in all cooperative undertakings to give encouragement to individual initiative, as fundamentally important to the advancement of science.
Page 74 - Meyer, of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture...
Page i - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 124 - ... at home and abroad, in cooperation with governmental and other agencies and to render such information available to duly accredited persons. Effective prosecution of the council's work requires the cordial collaboration of the scientific and technical branches of the Government, both military and civil. To this end, representatives of the Government, upon the nomination of the National Academy of Sciences, will be designated by the President as members of the council, as heretofore, and the heads...
Page 78 - Science and the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology of the National Research Council.
Page 42 - Cort, of the School of Hygiene and Public Health of Johns Hopkins University.
Page ix - That the National Academy of Sciences shall consist of not more than fifty ordinary members, and the said corporation hereby constituted shall have power to make its own organization, including its constitution, by-laws, and rules and regulations ; to fill all vacancies created by death, resignation, or otherwise; to provide for the election of foreign and domestic members, the division into classes, and all other matters needful or usual in such institution, and to report the same to Congress.
Page 89 - PROCEEDINGS is the official organ of the NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES and of the NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL for...
Page 9 - The search for truth is in one way hard and in another easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully nor miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of Nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur.