Lewis M. Branscomb

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Lewis M. Branscomb

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#1183

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According to Wikipedia, Lewis McAdory Branscomb was an American physicist, government policy advisor, and corporate research manager. He was best known for being head of the National Bureau of Standards and, later, chief scientist of IBM; and as a prolific writer on science policy issues.

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Valleys of Death and Darwinian Seas: Financing the Invention to Innovation Transition in the United States (2003) (338)
Women in science. (1979) (277)
Industrializing Knowledge: University-Industry Linkages in Japan and the United States (1999) (250)
Photodetachment Cross Section and the Electron Affinity of Atomic Oxygen (1958) (188)
Between Invention and Innovation An Analysis of Funding for Early-Stage Technology Development (2002) (155)
Investing in innovation : creating a research and innovation policy that works (1998) (122)
Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerability (2006) (117)
Ease of Use: A System Design Challenge (1984) (100)
Photodetachment Cross Section, Electron Affinity, and Structure of the Negative Hydroxyl Ion (1966) (94)
National Bureau of Standards Report (1963) (91)
Laser Double-Quantum Photodetachment of I - (1965) (81)
Science in 2006 (2016) (79)
Structure and Photodetachment Spectrum of the Atomic Carbon Negative Ion (1962) (76)
Oxygen Metastable Atom Production Through Photodetachment (1965) (74)
Photodetachment of O-2 (1958) (73)
Making the nation safer: the role of science and technology in countering terrorism (2002) (64)
Ion chemistry governing mesospheric electron concentrations (1968) (58)
Charge Transfer and Electron Production in H − +H Collisions (1960) (58)
The electronic library. (1981) (57)
Sustainable cities: Safety and security (2006) (55)
Standards Processes and Objectives for the National Information Infrastructure (1995) (54)
The Electron Affinity of Atomic Oxygen (1955) (47)
Electron Affinity of Atomic Sulfur and Empirical Affinities of the Light Elements (1956) (43)
Taking Technical Risks : How Innovators, Executives, And Investors Manage High-Tech Risks (2001) (42)
Empowering technology: Implementing a U.S. strategy (1993) (41)
To tap or not to tap (1993) (40)
DETACHMENT OF ELECTRONS FROM H$sup -$ AND O$sup -$ NEGATIVE IONS BY ELECTRON IMPACT. (1968) (37)
Challenges to technology policy in a changing world (1998) (35)
Electron Affinity of Atomic Iodine (1962) (33)
EXPERIMENTAL CROSS SECTION FOR PHOTODETACHMENT OF ELECTRONS FROM H$sup -$ AND D$sup -$ (1955) (32)
Detachment of Electrons From H - by Electron Impact (1966) (30)
ATOMIC NEGATIVE-ION-PHOTODETACHMENT CROSS-SECTION AND AFFINITY MEASUREMENTS (1955) (30)
Converging Infrastructures: Intelligent Transportation and the National Information Infrastructure (1996) (29)
A Review of Photodetachment and Related Negative Ion Processes Relevant to Aeronomy (1963) (28)
Research and Innovation in a Networked World (2008) (27)
The Demand for and Supply of Technical Information and Analysis in State Legislatures (1997) (26)
Sunlight photodetachment rate of ground state O2 (1969) (24)
Start-Ups and Spin-Offs: Collective Entrepreneurship between Invention and Innovation (2002) (23)
Electronics and Computers: An Overview (1982) (21)
Understanding Private-Sector Decision Making for Early-Stage Technology Development A Between Invention and Innovation Project Report (2003) (19)
Ensuring (and Insuring?) Critical Information Infrastructure Protection (2005) (19)
Photodetachment of O - 2 (1958) (19)
Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Managers, and Investors Manage Risk in High-Tech Innovations (2003) (19)
Rail Transportation of Toxic Inhalation Hazards: Policy Responses to the Safety and Security Externality (2010) (17)
Protecting civil society from terrorism: the search for a sustainable strategy (2004) (17)
Atomic and Molecular Negative Ions in Stellar Atmospheres (1958) (16)
Information for a changing society. (1972) (16)
Integrity in Science (1985) (16)
Education in Private Industry. (1975) (16)
The False Dichotomy: Scientific Creativity and Utility. (1999) (14)
Korea at the Turning Point: Innovation-Based Strategies for Development.@@@The State, Society and Big Business in South Korea. (1998) (13)
Japanese innovation strategy : technical support for business visions (1993) (13)
Computing and Communications - A Perspective of the Evolving Environment (1979) (12)
Where Do High Tech Commercial Innovations Come From (2004) (12)
Optical Methods for Negative Ion Studies (1960) (12)
The national technology policy debate (1993) (11)
Science in Congress: Deceptive statistics—Response. (2015) (10)
Emission of the Atmospheric Oxygen Bands in Discharges and Afterglows (1952) (10)
National laboratories: the search for new missions and new structures (1993) (10)
Toward a US technology policy (1991) (10)
Intensity distributions in nitrogen bands excited in auroras and by high-energy protons and hydrogen atoms (1954) (9)
The Misinformation Explosion: Is the Literature Worth Reviewing? (1968) (9)
America's emerging technology policy (1992) (9)
Calculated Calibration Points for Negative Ion Appearance Potentials (1958) (9)
Foreword: the human side of computers (1981) (9)
Taming technology. (1971) (8)
Science in the White House: a new start. (1977) (8)
Computer Communications in the Eighties - Time to put It All Together (1981) (8)
Anomalous Molecular Rotation and the Temperature of the Upper Atmosphere (1950) (7)
The physics of electronic and atomic collisions : invited papers (1968) (7)
Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: Frontmatter (2006) (7)
Criteria for Pre-Exposure of Spectroscopic Plates (1951) (7)
Targeting critical technologies (1993) (7)
Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: Public–Private Collaboration on a National and International Scale (2006) (7)
U.S. scientific and technical information policy in the context of a diffusion-oriented national technology policy☆ (1992) (7)
Intellectual Property Issues in Software (1991) (7)
Building an Institute for Triple-Helix Research Innovation (2006) (6)
Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: Where Private Efficiency Meets Public Vulnerability: The Critical Infrastructure Challenge (2006) (6)
The Infrared Spectrum of Active Nitrogen (1951) (6)
Reflections on Mansfield, Technological Complexity, and the “Golden Age” of U.S. Corporate R&D (2004) (6)
Chemical accelerators. (1968) (6)
Electronic and atomic collisions : abstracts of papers of the VIIth International Conference on the Physics of Electronic and Atomic Collisions : VII ICPEAC Amsterdam, the Netherlands 26-30 July 1971 (1971) (6)
Computer's debt to science (1983) (6)
America's Rising Research Alliance. (1984) (6)
Balancing the commercial and public-interest visions of the NII (1995) (6)
Technology Assessment in the U.S. State Legislatures (1997) (6)
Funding civilian and dual-use industrial technology (1993) (6)
Improving R&D Productivity: The Federal Role (1983) (5)
Detachment of Electrons from H- and O- Negative Ions by Electron Impact (1968) (5)
Maintaining Vitality and Productivity in R&D: Staff Obsolescence — Its Cost and Prevention (1973) (5)
IBM and U.S. Universities???An Evolving Partnership (1986) (5)
Social Capital: The Key Element in Science‐Based Development (1996) (5)
Confessions Of A Technophile (1995) (4)
Twenty years of physics: Atoms, molecules and electrons (1968) (4)
Leadership: Who Will Act? Integrating Public and Private Interests to Make a Safer World (2006) (4)
Research and Innovation Policy: a Framework for Research-Based Industrial Policy in the United States (2001) (4)
Research Alone Is Not Enough (2008) (4)
FROM DESKTOP To TERAFLOP : EXPLOITING THE U . S . LEAD IN HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING NSF Blue Ribbon Panel on High Performance Computing August 1993 (2011) (4)
Bringing Computing to People: The Broadening Challenge (1982) (4)
National Science Foundation budgets: fiscal years 1982, 1982, and beyond. (1981) (4)
Views of science (1980) (3)
Edward Uhler Condon (1974) (3)
Support for reviews and data evaluation. (1975) (3)
Physics—used and unused (1981) (3)
Empowering technology policy (1993) (3)
Engineering and the national science foundation. (1984) (3)
Supporting the president's need for technical advice (1988) (3)
Science and technology advice to the US government: deficiencies and alternatives (1993) (3)
Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: Preface (2006) (3)
Social research support. (1981) (2)
Electricity: Protecting Essential Services (2006) (2)
Insurance, the 14th Critical Sector (2006) (2)
Between Safety and Security: The Policy Challenges of Transporting Toxic Inhalation Hazards (2012) (2)
Networks for the nineties (1983) (2)
Industry Evaluation of Research Quality: Edited Excerpts from a Seminar (1982) (2)
A scientific idealist. (1974) (2)
Promising areas of research in the computer industry (1976) (2)
Resources for an Uncertain Future (1978) (2)
A government prepared: Organizing for math and science education reform (1992) (2)
To tap or not to tap. Comment (1993) (2)
Edward Uhler Condon, a Personal Recollection (1975) (2)
Producing slides of radiographs. (1979) (2)
Opportunities for Cooperation Between Government, Industry and the University (1979) (2)
Research, innovation and politics (2000) (1)
Policy for Science in 1989: A Public Agenda for Economic Renewal (1988) (1)
Physics and the nation in a crystal ball (1968) (1)
A federal department of science and technology (1986) (1)
Commentators (2017) (1)
Emerging patterns of innovation : sources of Japan's technological edge (1995) (1)
Future computer. (1979) (1)
Public uses of information systems: Principles for design and application (1990) (1)
Negative oxygen ions in the upper atmosphere: The affinity and radiative attachment coefficient of atomic oxygen (1955) (1)
Reactions to APS support of ERA (1979) (1)
Ion Chemistry Governing Mesospheric Electron Densities. (1967) (1)
Physics and the APS in 1979 (1980) (1)
Improving R&D Productivity : The Federal Role : Science (1987) (1)
The Photoionization of One- and Two-Electron Atoms (1969) (1)
A Nation Forewarned: Vulnerability of Critical Infrastructure in the Twenty-First Century (2006) (1)
A letter to Steven Dedijer (1979) (1)
Science and the American Society. (1973) (1)
Electronics and computers. (1982) (1)
Staff Obsolescence -- Its Cost and Prevention (1977) (1)
Odes to a physics songbag [2] (multiple letters) (2005) (0)
Insider notes on the International Geophysical Year (2008) (0)
Overview of Policy Issues: Panel Report (1979) (0)
New Technology for Science: Where Will it Come From? (1986) (0)
Ensuring that Fundamental Research Remains Unrestricted (1985) (0)
Research equipment acquisition. (1981) (0)
The Role of Atomic Collision Processes in Astrophysics (1968) (0)
The U. S. Metric Study. (1971) (0)
High‐school physics—why doesn't somebody do something? (1983) (0)
Photoionization processes in gases: by Geoffrey V. Marr. 282 pages, diagrams, illustr., 6 × 9 in. New York, Academic Press, 1967. Price, $12.50 (1968) (0)
Creating Competitiveness: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policies for Growth edited by David B. Audretch and Mary Linenstein Walshok (2013) (0)
The Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, A Fully Integrated Partnership Between Government Laboratory and University (1969) (0)
Biographical Memoirs: Harvey Brooks (2010) (0)
Insights: Technology Promotion: What the Fed Should and Should Not Do. (1985) (0)
Needed: conviction to match our science. (1980) (0)
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics of the National Bureau of Standards and the University of Colorado (Observatory Report 1964) (1963) (0)
NSF Appointments (1983) (0)
Pixelating the populace (1995) (0)
Recollections of Wade Fite's early career (1993) (0)
Credit for gravity apparatus (1967) (0)
Hazardous Material Transportation and the Security Externality: What Should be Done? (2013) (0)
CYBERATTACKS AS AN AMPLIFIER IN TERRORIST STRATEGY. IN: TERRORISM. REDUCING VULNERABILITIES AND IMPROVING RESPONSES. U.S.-RUSSIAN WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS. (2004) (0)
Energy Dependence for the Photodetachment of I- Near Threshold (1964) (0)
Physics of Atomic Collisions. J. B. Hasted. Butterworth, Washington, D.C., 1964. x + 536 pp. Illus. $26 (1964) (0)
Basic Research in the Service of Public Objectives in the Service of Public Objectives (2000) (0)
Managing technology by performance. (1972) (0)
CHARGE TRANSFER AND ELECTRON PRODUCTION IN HYDROGEN NEGATIVE IONS + HYDROGEN COLLISIONS, (1960) (0)
The Present and Future of Astrophysics and its Effects on Industry in Colorado (1964) (0)
Noise Control for the Future (1975) (0)
Science as a Model for Rational, Legitimate Government (2009) (0)
Decimals for Good Measure. (1974) (0)
Photodetachment of Atmospheric Negative Ions (1957) (0)
International conferences and tax reform. (1977) (0)
Cold War Science (1977) (0)
Microscience and basic research (1979) (0)
Who should fund basic technology? (1998) (0)
Cross Sections for Loss of Two Electrons from H- and D- Single Collisions with H2 (1964) (0)
More on APS and Public Issues (1968) (0)
NSF Appointments. (1983) (0)
Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: References (2006) (0)
Upper Air Temperatures from Spectra (1950) (0)
RESEARCH PROGRAM IN PHYSICS AND ASTROPHYSICS: ASTROPHYSICS, PLASMA PHYSICS, AERODYNAMICS, NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND SPECTROSCOPY (1965) (0)
Editorial: Credit Controversies and the Reviewer's Responsibility (1970) (0)
Helping the president manage the federal science and technology enterprise (1980) (0)
The radiative formation and destruction of negative ions (1962) (0)
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics of the National Bureau of Standards and University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Report (1963) (0)
The first 100 feet: New options for Internet and broadband access. Final report, June 1, 1996--January 31, 1998 (1998) (0)
Atomic Physics: Physics of Atomic Collisions . J. B. Hasted. Butterworth, Washington, D.C., 1964. x + 536 pp. Illus. $26. (1964) (0)
Reflections on Mansfield, Technological Complexity, and the (2005) (0)
Truth in Packaging of Scientific Information (1969) (0)
Social Research Support (1981) (0)
UFO's: Irrational Public Debates (1968) (0)
Reviewers for Volume 28 (2015) (0)
Obituary: Edward U. Condon (1991) (0)
Political Controversy and Scientific Integrity NBS-NIST (2001) (0)
Science in 2006, Revisited (2003) (0)
Astrophysical and Plasma Physics Research at the National Bureau of Standards: Highlights for 1961 (2017) (0)
EARLIER STRATEGIC PLANNING EFFORTS (2009) (0)
Resources for an uncertain future : papers presented at a forum marking the 25th anniversary of Resources for the Future, October 13, 1977, Washington, D.C. (1978) (0)
Science and technology advice to state legislatures (1996) (0)
A Summary of Global Technology Trends of Possible Strategic Interest to the People’s Republic of China (1990) (0)
Observatory Report — National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C., and National Bureau of Standards Boulder Laboratories (1963) (0)
Save OTA from Congress's Budgetary Ax (1995) (0)
Odes to a Physics Songbag (2005) (0)
Invited papers from the Fifth International Conference ... (1968) (0)
Changes in the chemical composition of the atmosphere following intense ionization impulses (1964) (0)
"Basic research in electronics; why it is needed and where it should be done" (1973) (0)

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