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National Science Foundation (NSF) is a unique federal agency
because it supports scientific research financially, but does not
engage in scientific work itself. Its history is known only in part
because the NSF is a vibrant, expanding, and living entity that
makes the final telling of its story impossible. Much can be
learned from its beginning as well as its component parts. If the
founding of the NSF in 1950 was couched in an era of physics,
especially atomic physics, certainly by the end of the 20th century
and the beginning of the 21st, biology was, and remains, the queen
of sciences for the predictable future. This book highlights the
elite status of America's biological sciences as they were funded,
affected, and, to a very real degree, interactively guided by the
NSF. It examines important events in the earlier history of the
Foundation because they play strongly upon the development of the
various biology directorates. Issues such as education, applied
research, medical science, the National Institutes of Health, the
beginnings of biotechnology, and other matters are also discussed.
National Science Foundation (NSF) is a unique federal agency
because it supports scientific research financially, but does not
engage in scientific work itself. Its history is known only in part
because the NSF is a vibrant, expanding, and living entity that
makes the final telling of its story impossible. Much can be
learned from its beginning as well as its component parts. If the
founding of the NSF in 1950 was couched in an era of physics,
especially atomic physics, certainly by the end of the 20th century
and the beginning of the 21st, biology was, and remains, the queen
of sciences for the predictable future. This book highlights the
elite status of America's biological sciences as they were funded,
affected, and, to a very real degree, interactively guided by the
NSF. It examines important events in the earlier history of the
Foundation because they play strongly upon the development of the
various biology directorates. Issues such as education, applied
research, medical science, the National Institutes of Health, the
beginnings of biotechnology, and other matters are also discussed.
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