Reports on employment statistics of minority groups among doctorate level scientists, engineers, and scholars indicating field of employment and minority representation in each field. (GS)

Reports on the basis of a survey, that women academics in Britain publish considerably fewer books and articles per head than their male counterparts in all areas of science except social science. (BR)

This selected bibliography of articles and books concerns the effects of industrial climate on research performance. (HW)

The report deals with conditions determining choice of natural science careers among American college men. Most data come from questionnaires returned to the National Opinion Research Center by a representative sample of 33,782 June, 1961, college graduates. Of 21,687 men, 1,894 reported preferring science careers as freshmen. In most of the…

Survey data obtained from industries and universities are summarized and analyzed from the standpoint of the Air Force's requirement for updating its military scientists and engineers.It is concluded that the wide range of innovative methods of continuing education (CE), in use or in development within selected industries and universities, can be…

Because the Army has had a series of contracts with Duke University under which the services of scientists were obtained whose pay often exceeded the daily equivalent of the highest GS salary rate, the Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations requested the GAO to review the Army-Duke contracts, and other contractual arrangements of the…

This study of the relationship between academic science and the federal government was undertaken at the request of the NAS membership at the annual meeting of 1963. Three main elements were considered: the federal government, institutions of higher education, and the scientific community, most of whom were also members of teaching faculties.…

This report focuses on the employment of academic scientists and engineers from 1975 through 1976. The total number of scientists and engineers employed by universities and colleges is reported and discussed, broken down into type of activity, field of employment, type of control (public or private), and sex. (DT)

Suggests a new strategy for the proponents of science to rebut the cultural anti-science wave. This strategy involves publicizing the anti-hero scientist and presents a number of candidates from the past as examples. (GS)

Describes a number of factors in the social environments of two men which help to differentiate their work representing opposing opinions in the field of evolution. Discussed are the degree of parental influence, their education, social positions, and religious training. (EB)

Describes a recently originated project to create simulated taped interviews with great chemists. (CP)

The status and activity of women scientists during the critical period of professionalization in American science was limited. Despite discrimination, three successive generations gained ground in numbers and professional acceptance--first as independent investigators, then as teachers and illustrators and finally as study or research group…

The author, a physicist, chemist, and geologist, describes the new frontiers of scientific research. (Editor/RK)

Summarizes Charles Wheatstone's 1843 paper introducing the Wheatstone bridge and the rheostat. (SL)

Describes the life and work of physicist Robert A. Millikan. (SL)