Tax structure of Chile Types of projects to be financed____. U.S. exports, Use of dollar credits for purchase of- 290, 297 291 304 313 294 314 HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS EIGHTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION SUBCOMMITTEE ON INDEPENDENT OFFICES ALBERT THOMAS, Texas, Chairman SIDNEY R. YATES, Illinois HAROLD C. OSTERTAG, New York G. HOMER SKARIN, Staff Assistant to Subcommittee 82968 HIGHLIGHTS OF SCIENCE IN THE UNITED Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1962 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS CLARENCE CANNON, Missouri, Chairman GEORGE H. MAHON, Texas HUGH Q. ALEXANDER, North Carolina JOHN TABER, New York H. CARL ANDERSEN, Minnesota FRANK T. BOW, Ohio CHARLES RAPER JONAS, North Carolina MELVIN R. LAIRD, Wisconsin ELFORD A. CEDERBERG, Michigan JOHN J. RHODES, Arizona PHIL WEAVER, Nebraska WILLIAM E. MINSHALL, Ohio ROBERT H. MICHEL, Illinois SILVIO O. CONTE, Massachusetts WILLIAM H. MILLIKEN, JR., Pennsylvania EARL WILSON, Indiana KENNETH SPRANKLE, Clerk and Staff Director NITED STATES OF AMERIC NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1962. HIGHLIGHTS OF SCIENCE IN THE UNITED STATES WITNESSES DR. ALAN T. WATERMAN, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDA- DR. DETLEV W. BRONK, CHAIRMAN, NATIONAL SCIENCE BOARD; DR. FREDERICK SEITZ, DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS, UNIVERSITY DR. EDWARD M. PURCELL, DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. DR. PHILIP HANDLER, CHAIRMAN OF THE DEPARTMENT OF BIO- DR. JERROLD R. ZACHARIAS, DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS, MASSA- DR. RICHARD H. BOLT, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR (PLANNING), NA- DR. PAUL M. GROSS, VICE PRESIDENT, NATIONAL SCIENCE BOARD DR. WILLIAM O. BAKER, MEMBER, NATIONAL SCIENCE BOARD Mr. THOMAS. Gentlemen, will the committee please come to order. We are delighted and honored to have such a distinguished and outstanding group of scientists and Americans with us this morning. In addition to our distinguished personnel from the National Science Foundation, we have with us some of the most famous and outstanding scientists in the world, good Americans, from various universities and research foundations. Certainly, it is nice to have Dr. Waterman with us, Director of the Foundation. Mr. Hoff, General Counsel; Dr. Robertson, Associate Director of Research; Dr. Kelly, Associate Director, Educational and International Activities; Dr. Keller, Assistant Director, Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Division; Dr. Jones, head of the Office of Antarctic Programs; Dr. Roe, head of the Office of International Science Activities; Dr. Joyce, Special Assistant to the Director, and Mr. Rosenthal, the Comptroller. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Dr. Waterman, will you introduce these distinguished guests and visitors. We want their background and their history in the record. We would like to have a short biography of each one, but we would like to have that enlarged and placed in the record with their titles and whatever you want to add. Again, let me repeat, we want you to introduce them and take over now. On behalf of the committee, I want to thank all you gentlemen for coming. We know you are busy and we certainly appreciate the time you have taken from the thousands of other important things you are doing. We are anxious to have you. Say whatever you like. Dr. Waterman. (The biographies referred to follow :) BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES JAMES ALFRED VAN ALLEN Professor Van Allen was born on September 7, 1914, in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. After receiving a B.S. degree at Iowa Wesleyan College, Professor Van Allen attended the University of Iowa where he received a Ph. D. in 1936. Honorary degrees have been bestowed on him by Iowa Wesleyan College, Grinnell College, Coe College, Cornell College, Dubuque University, University of Michigan, and Northwestern University. He was a fellow at the Carnegie Research Institute in Washington in 1939 and was engaged in research at Johns Hopkins University during and just after World War II. Since 1951 he has been at the State University of Iowa where he is now head of the department of physics and astronomy. Professor Van Allen is best known for his discovery of the body of charged particles encircling the earth which bears his name. In addition to this discovery, Professor Van Allen has made many important contributions to our knowledge of cosmic rays and their behavior as they enter the earth's atmosphere. His development of sounding rockets, balloons, and their instrumentation was of great assistance to science. Professor Van Allen is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He won the Hickman Medal Award by the American Rocket Society in 1949: a distinguished Civilian Service Medal from the U.S. Army in 1959, and the Hill Award from the Institute of Aerospace Sciences in 1960. Professor Van Allen has served the Government in the capacity of adviser on many occasions. He has been a member of the NAS-NRC Space Science Board and Advisory Panels in the National Science Foundation. FREDERICK SEITZ Prof. Frederick Seitz was born on July 4, 1911, in San Francisco, Calif. He received his A.B. degree at Stanford University and his Ph. D. at Princeton. He holds honorary degrees from Ghent in Belgium and the University of Reading in England. After his studies in Princeton in 1935, Professor Seitz joined the staff at the University of Rochester. From 1937 to 1939 he was on the research staff of the General Electric Co. This was followed by 2 years at the University of Pennsylvania and 7 years at Carnegie Tech where he was chairman of the department of physics. From 1949 to the present, Professor Seitz has been at the University of Illinois where he is now head of the department of physics. His experience at Illinois included the directorship of the control systems laboratory from 1951 to 1952. Professor Seitz has made many valuable contributions to research and education in the field of solids, probably doing more to help establish this field of science in our country than any other man. Besides books, Professor Seitz has published many papers covering various phases of solid state and materials. During World War II he was engaged in many research fields including the nuclear field. The first year after the war, Professor Seitz became director of the atomic energy training program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is a member of the National Academy; ex officio member of the Defense Science Board, and was president of the American Physical Society in 1960. |