Science, The Endless Frontier
A Report to the President by Vannevar Bush, Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, July 1945
(United States Government Printing Office, Washington: 1945)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Letter of Transmittal
- President Roosevelt's Letter
- Science, The Endless Frontier -- Quote from President Roosevelt
- Summary of the Report
- Introduction:
- Scientific Progress is Essential
- Science is a Proper Concern of Government
- Government Relations to Science - Past and Future
- Freedom of Inquiry Must be Preserved
- The War Against Disease:
- In War
- In Peace
- Unsolved Problems
- Broad and Basic Studies Needed
- Coordinated Attack on Special Problems
- Action is Necessary
- Science and the Public Welfare:
- Relation to National Security
- Science and Jobs
- The Importance of Basic Research
- Centers of Basic Research
- Research Within the Government
- Industrial Research
- International Exchange of Scientific Information
- The Special Need for Federal Support
- The Cost of a Program
- Renewal of our Scientific Talent:
- Nature of the Problem
- A Note of Warning
- The Wartime Deficit
- Improve the Quality
- Remove the Barriers
- The Generation in Uniform Must Not be Lost
- A Program
- A Problem of Scientific Reconversion:
- Effects of Mobilization of Science for War
- Security Restrictions Should be Lifted Promptly
- Need for Coordination
- A Board to Control Release
- Publication Should be Encouraged
- The Means to the End:
Appendices
(Note: not available online.)
- Committees Consulted
- Report of the Medical Advisory Committee, Dr. W. W. Palmer, Chairman
- Report of the Committee on Science and the Public Welfare, Dr. Isaiah Bowman, Chairman
- Report of the Committee on Discovery and Development of Scientific Talent, Mr. Henry Allen Moe, Chairman
- Report of the Committee on Publication of Scientific Information, Dr. Irvin Stewart, Chairman