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Wednesday’s Book Review: “The Economic Laws of Scientific Research”


The Economic Laws of Scientific Research. By Terence Kealey. New York: Palgrave Macmillan/St. Martin’s Press, 1996. Illustrations, figures, notes, index. 382 pages. ISBN: 978-0312128470. $51.00 paperback. Terence Kealey is a clinical biochemist, his profession at Cambridge University, who journeys out … Continue reading

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Announcing “The NACA Centenary: A Symposium on 100 Years of Aerospace Research and Development”


On March 3, 1915, Congress established the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, or N-A-C-A, “to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight with a view to their practical solution, and to determine the problems which should … Continue reading

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