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  1. Jun 25, 2024 · When MIT vice president Vannevar Bush left to become president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1939, he suggested that Killian, then 34, join President Compton’s office to take over ...

  2. Jun 12, 2024 · I simply noticed the film Oppenheimer. An exquisite film on a number of ranges. However the Atomic Bomb story that begins at Los Alamos with Oppenheimer and Basic Grove misses the truth that from mid-1940 to mid-1942 it was Vannevar Bush (and his quantity 2, James Conant, the president of Harvard) who ran the U.S. […]

  3. Jun 24, 2024 · Facing pressure from their demand, the then President of the USA requested Mr. Vannevar Bush, Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, to come out with relevant policy suggestions in national interest. Vannevar submitted an illustrious report ‘Science, The Endless Frontier’ to the then US President in 1945.

  4. Jun 26, 2024 · This Friday 28-Jun 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Vannevar Bush on 28-Jun 1974. Therefore its timely to build awareness of the distilled lines of evidence (but not proof..!) tying Vannevar Bush to The Program.

  5. Jun 20, 2024 · The OSRD traced its origins to the creation of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) in June 1940. President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Vannevar Bush as its chairman. Bush, president of the Carnegie Institute and chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, had a distinguished career.

  6. 50 years since a world with Vannevar Bush in it. Today is the 50th anniversary of the passing of Vannevar Bush on June 28th 1974. (Here is some prosaic background commemorating him - love him or hate him, you should at least know about his prosaic-world imprint on the world).

  7. 4 days ago · The Department of Defense (DoD) announced the selection of 11 university scientists and engineers for the 2024 class of the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (VBFF), its flagship single-investigator award for basic research. The department will support this cohort with up to $33 million to explore new frontiers in knowledge and advance transformative, fundamental research at their respective ...