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1926–2023 United States
Lewis M. Branscomb (August 17, 1926 – May 31, 2023) is an American physicist and Professor emeritus of Public Policy and Corporate Management, in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
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God loves the noise as much as the signal.
Confessions of a Technophile (1994)
Science has been the absolute bedrock of technological and economic progress in the United States.
Branscomb (2012)
Teachers of science in schools and colleges must be masters of the tools for ensuring integrity in science and must instill them in their students.
Integrity in Science (1985)
The progress of science still depends on "a few people of vision".
An exploration of the challenges Korea faces in transforming its economy from a government-directed, low-cost producer to an innovative world economic power based on its own scientific and technological development.
Young-Hwan Choi (1996)
We must understand that the fact of error, demonstrated in subsequent work, does not suggest that ethical lapses are responsible. It is more likely that the source of error is, as the advertisement says, a reflection of the fact that "its dangerous to trifle with Mother Nature".
Integrity in Science (1985)
Shortly after taking office in 1993, President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore called for a shift in American technology policy toward an expansion of public investments in partnerships with private industry.
J.H. Keller (1999)
While it is becoming increasingly obvious that the fundamental architecture of a system has a profound Influence on the quality of its human factors, the vast majority of human factors studies concern the surface of hardware (keyboards, screens) or the very surface of the software (command names, menu formats).
J.C. Thomas (1984)
Scientists are used to debating with one another about the finer points of new research. But increasingly, they find themselves battling their televisions and computer screens, which transmit ever-more-heated rhetoric from politicians, pundits, and other public figures who misinterpret, misrepresent, and malign scientific results.
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