Scientific manpower : hearing before the Subcommittee on Science of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, first session, July 31, 1991.

  • United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Science
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1991
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Credit: Scientific manpower : hearing before the Subcommittee on Science of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, first session, July 31, 1991. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    our ability to forecast, but to enable us to better understand the pipeline and why so few individuals survive the pipeline. We need to attract more women and minorities into science and engineering, but our ability to do so is currently limited. I person- ally majored in physics as an undergraduate and in an engineering field as a graduate student. But to this day, I can’t tell you why I made it through the pipeline and others did not. In closing let me say that the NRC Report was extraordinarily well done, the best report of that kind I have ever seen. And in my opinion, NSF is being full—within their budget—is being fully re- sponsive to these recommendations. Thank you very much for this opportunity to testify, and I will be happy to answer questions. [The prepared statement of Dr. Liebman follows.]|