Abstract
THE concerted effort that linked the men of science of Great Britain during the Second World War was remarkable in the ease of its occurrence, in its achievements, and, contrary to many fears, in the fact that scientific 'planning' was not apparently associated with any evil consequences- except perhaps in so far as we did not plan sufficiently for the continuation of fundamental research. We were particularly fortunate in all this, and we owe a large part of our success to the fact that in the scientific and technical departments of the Service and other Ministries, and even more so in the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, the Medical Research Council and Agricultural Research Council, we possessed powerful official agencies to act as a kernel for our scientific mobilization.
Endless Horizons
By Dr. Vannevar Bush. Pp. ix + 182. (Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1946.) 2.50 dollars.
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ZUCKERMAN, S. Endless Horizons. Nature 159, 316–317 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159316a0
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