Independent US federal agency that funds basic research and education in science and engineering. The NSF operates without a laboratory, distributing approximately $9 billion per year in grants to universities and research institutions across the country.
Principal funder of non-medical basic research in the United States; shaped the postwar American research university system and global scientific enterprise.
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