American Physical Society. Annual Meeting (2009: Denver, Colo)
Science policy: yesterday, today and tomorrow [sound recording], 2009 May 3.
Audio recording of session G7 of the April 2009 annual meeting of the American Physical Society, held in Denver, Colorado in May 2009. This session was co-sponsored by the American Physical Society (APS) Forum on the History of Physics and the Forum on Physics and Society, and chaired by Daniel Kleppner of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Talks (and speakers) include: "Skating on Thin Ice: Evolution of Conservation in Energy Policy" (Jack Gibbons); "Civic Scientist Era" (Neal Lane); "Science as a Model for Rational, Legitimate Government" (Lewis Branscomb). Topics discussed include science policies in the government, and government sponsorship and support of scientific advances.
This professional society of educators, industrial and government research workers, and students of physics and related fields, was established in 1899 to promote the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics. It was a founding Member Society of the American Institute of Physics. The American Physical Society (APS) meetings are a forum for scientists to gather and share research results on a wide range of physics and physics-related topics.
Physics -- History.
Physics -- History -- Congresses.
Science -- Government policy -- United States.
Science and state.
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Branscomb, Lewis M., 1926-
Gibbons, James F.
Lane, Neal F.
American Physical Society.
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