Vannevar Bush - American Electrical Engineer
(1890 - 1974)

June 12, 1940
Realizing the need to organize American science for war, Carnegie Institute president Vannevar Bush convinces Roosevelt to place him at the head of a National Defense Research Committee. The NDRC was to search for new opportunities to apply science to the needs of war. Fission research was at the top of the list. Being a government agency, the NDRC had its own budget and could undertake any research the committee deemed important. The Advisory Committee on Uranium became a sub-committee of the NDRC in charge of fission research.

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