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Select this Article		The role of scientific institutes in American education A. W. Lawson


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Select this Article		Solid state electronics Robert G. Breckenridge


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Select this Article		Operations research with special reference to nonmilitary research Committee on Operations Research


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Select this Article		Basic research in the Office of Naval Research Dwight E. Gray


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	+ -	Show Topic The AIP's Twentieth Anniversary Meeting; Polymers and colloids; APS Division of Electron Physics; Conference on electrical insulation; Diffraction conference.

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