Chapter Six: National Science Foundation, 1952 - 2000

General description of act founding NSF May 1950; Letter Director NSF to EWG June 1952 about membership and/or chairmanship on committee to support basic research and education in the sciences with EWG's response; letter NSF to EWG Oct 1952 inquiring about serving on Divisional Committee for Medical research; letter Director to EWG Nov 1952 appointing him as member; EWG personnel security questionnaire; minutes of 1st meeting May, 1953; letter EWG to Demsey Sep 1953 about topics for discussion promoting graduate program; letter EWG to Director Feb 1954 declining serving another year but accepts a month later as noted in Director to EWG mar 1954; list of members Jan 1955; Director to EWG June 1955 with urgent request to evaluate NIH per request from Sec NIH; Letter EWG to Long, Chairman of above committee Nov 1955 with detailed analysis of NIH programs; Report of meeting between NSF committee and Folsom, newly appointed Sec NIH in which EWG presents recommendations (that Folsom did not like); etter Miller to EWG about above memo with EWG's response Dec 1955; letter Long to EWG Dec 1955 about revisions described in Nov 1955 letter letter Folsom to Long July 1956 essentially dismissing recommendations; letter NSF to US Advisory Comm for the Living Cell Class Jan 1957 including EWG and minutes of meeting Jan 1957; letter Long to EWG Oct 1957 informing him of new committee chaired by Bayne-Jones to study NIH and EWG's response noting that the new committee was unbalanced, was studying problems predicted by the previous one; "Blue Sheet" Drug Research Report about B-J Committee (their report not found as published item); Science article March 2001 about proliferation of NIH; NSF Strategic Plan Sept 2000.