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A gathering of scientists in the Oval Office with President Harry S. Truman.

Original Caption: "Dr. Vannevar Bush was among a group of eminent scientists to whom former President Harry S. Truman expressed the nation's thanks for their work in directing the country's scientific manpower and research facilities during World War II. In this photograph made at the White House in 1947, Dr. Bush is standing, third from left. Others in the group were, seated, left to right, James B. Conant, president of Harvard and chairman of the National Defense Research Committee; President Truman; and Alfred N. Richards, a vice-president of the University of Pennsylvania and chairman of the committee on Medical Research. Standing were Karl T. Compton, president of M.I.T. and member of the National Defense Research Committee; Lewis H. Weed, director of the Johns Hopkins Medical School and vice chairman of the Committee on Medical Research; Dr. Bush, who was then president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development; Frank B. Jewett, an M.I.T. alumnus of the Class of 1903 and president, National Academy of Sciences; Jerome C. Hunsaker, an M.I.T. alumnus, head of the M.I.T. departments of mechanical and aeronautical engineering and chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics; Roger Adams, of the National Defense Research Committee, A. Baird Hastings, of Harvard, member of the medical research committee, and Alphonse R. Dochez, of Columbia University, member of the medical research committee."