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A COMMITTEE on Post-War Research for the Armed Forces of the United States has been appointed. At the first meeting there Were present Charles E. Wilson (chairman), vice-chairman of the U.S. War Production Board; Dr. F. B. Jewett, president of the National Academy of Sciences; Dr. J. C. Hunsaker, chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics; Dr. K. T. Compton, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dr. M. A. Tuve, Carnegie Institute of Technology; Major-General O. P. Echols, assistant chief of Air Staff; Major-General A. W. Waldron, General Staff Corps, chief of Requirements Section, Army Ground Forces; Brig.-General W. F. Tompkins, director of Special Planning Division, War Department General Staff; Colonel R. M. Osborne, Army Services Forces; Admiral E. L. Cochrane, chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics. Other members of the Committee are Brig.-General T. D. Weaver, director of Industrial Demobilisation of the Army Service Forces; Rear Admiral G. F. Hussey, jun., chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, and Rear Admiral D. O. Ramsey, chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics. The purpose of the Committee is to prepare a plan and organizational procedure which will ensure the continued interest of civilian scientific workers after the War, in scientific research for the U.S. Army and Navy.
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U.S. Committee for Post-War Research for Army and Navy. Nature 154, 77 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154077c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/154077c0