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Science

  • Gene knockout, in molecular biology
  • Knowledge Organization, an academic journal published by the International Society for Knowledge Organization

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Vannevar Bush
... van-NEE-var March 11, 1890 – June 28, 1974) was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator known for his work on analog computers, for his role as an initiator and administrator of the Manhattan ... leading American scientists in the application of science to warfare ... War II, when he was in effect the first presidential science advisor ...
Science and Society - Political Usage
... See also Politicization of science Many issues damage the relationship of science to the media and the use of science and scientific arguments by ... makes it their only goal to cast doubt on supported science because it conflicts with political agendas ...
J. Robert Oppenheimer - Final Years
... academics to establish what would eventually become the World Academy of Art and Science in 1960 ... invited, did he attend the first Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs in 1957 ... the difficulty of managing the power of knowledge in a world in which the freedom of science to exchange ideas was more and more hobbled by political concerns ...
Vannevar Bush Award
... The National Science Board established the Vannevar Bush Award (/væˈniːvər/ van-NEE-vər) in 1980 to honor Dr ... The annual award recognizes an individual who, through public service activities in science and technology, has made an outstanding "contribution toward the ... to Presidents, and the force behind the establishment of the National Science Foundation ...

Famous quotes containing the word science:

    “After sitting in my chamber many days, reading the poets, I have been out early on a foggy morning and heard the cry of an owl in a neighboring wood as from a nature behind the common, unexplored by science or by literature.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “There are some things in science which should be brought to light. There are others, doctor, which should be left alone.”
    —Griffin Jay, Maxwell Shane (1905–1983)

    “As a science of the unconscious it is a therapeutic method, in the grand style, a method overarching the individual case. Call this, if you choose, a poet’s utopia.”
    —Thomas Mann (1875–1955)