Abstract :
A National Research Foundation established by Congress for the purpose of developing scientific research, supporting financially basic research in nonprofit organizations, encouraging scientific talent in American youth by offering scholarships and fellowships, and promoting long-range research on military matters is recommended by Doctor Vannevar Bush, director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development in a report to the White House, prepared at the request of the late President Roosevelt. Urging a new impetus to scientific research in the United States, Doctor Bush stated that research cannot be left solely to private industry though private sources should continue to carry their share of the financial burden. The 184-page report entitled, “Science, The Endless Frontier,” lists five divisions of the Foundation — medical research, natural sciences, national defense, scientific personnel and education, and publications and scientific collaboration.
