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A gathering of scientists in the Oval Office with President Harry S. Truman. Technology Review, March 1947, p. 268. Original Credit Line: International New Photos.

Original Caption: "At the White House on January 20, President Truman expressed the nation's thanks to a group of scientists for their work in directing the country's scientific man power and research facilities during the war. Seated in reading order, are: James B. Conant, President of Harvard University and Chairman of the National Defense Research Committee; President Truman; and Alfred N. Richards, Vice-president in charge of medical affairs, University of Pennsylvania, and Chairman of the Committee on Medical Research. Standing are: 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; Vannevar Bush, '16, President of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development; Frank B. Jewett, '03, President, National Academy of Sciences, and member of the National Defense Research Committee; Jerome C. Hunsaker, '12, Chairman, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and member of the Advisory Council of the Office of Scientific Research and Development; Roger Adams, Head of Chemistry Department, University of Illinois, and member of the National Defense Research Committee; A. Baird Hastings, Harvard University, member of the Committee on Medical Research; and Alphonse R. Dochez, Columbia University, member of the Committee on Medical Research."