American engineer and science administrator who coordinated US scientific research during World War II and authored the foundational policy document for postwar federal science funding.
As director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, organized the Manhattan Project, radar, and penicillin mass-production programs; then authored Science, the Endless Frontier, which created the template for government-funded basic research.
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