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According to Wikipedia, Vannevar Bush was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator, who during World War II headed the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development , through which almost all wartime military R&D was carried out, including important developments in radar and the initiation and early administration of the Manhattan Project. He emphasized the importance of scientific research to national security and economic well-being, and was chiefly responsible for the movement that led to the creation of the National Science Foundation.

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Vannevar Bush's Published Works

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Published Papers

As we may think (1945) (4022)
The differential analyzer. A new machine for solving differential equations (1931) (219)
Thomas-Fermi Equation Solution by the Differential Analyzer (1931) (67)
The Endless Frontier, Report to the President on a Program for Postwar Scientific Research (1945) (63)
A New Type of Differential Analyzer (1945) (61)
Pieces of the Action (1972) (60)
Operational circuit analysis (55)
Science is not enough (1967) (35)
A continuous integraph (26)
Integraph solution of differential equations (1927) (24)
Modern Arms and Free Men (1950) (23)
Modern Arms and Free Men: A Discussion of the Role of Science in Preserving Democracy (1949) (21)
Structural analysis by electric circuit analogies (1934) (20)
The force between moving charges (1926) (16)
THE NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH COMMITTEE. (1940) (16)
Temperature Distribution Along a Filament (1927) (8)
THE KILGORE BILL (1943) (7)
An Electric Micromanipulator (1953) (7)
The Dawn of the Computer Age@@@Pieces of the Action.@@@The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann.@@@I am a Mathematician: The Later Life of a Prodigy. (1974) (5)
Automatic Microtome. (1952) (4)
As We My Think (1945) (4)
Principles and Applications of Underwater Sound. Volume 7 (1946) (3)
Trends in American science (1948) (3)
Improved automatic microtome. (1955) (2)
From “of inventions and inventors” (1971) (2)
Communication: Where do we go from here? (1955) (2)
The Key to Accomplishment (1932) (2)
Note on Operational Calculus (1924) (2)
"We are in danger of building a Tower of Babel" (1953) (2)
Correction of spherical error of a pendulum (1951) (1)
The Other Fellows' Ball Park. (1961) (1)
3 the Problem (1)
The Atomic Bomb and the Defense of the Free World (1951) (1)
Dictation to science by laymen. (1971) (1)
A tribute to Dugald C. Jackson (1951) (1)
Research symposium (1933) (1)
A letter on the Kilgore bill from Vannevar Bush (F '24) to Senator H. M. Kilgore (1944) (0)
A matter of degree. (1955) (0)
This period of transition (1951) (0)
What Is a Profession (1948) (0)
The American tradition of opportunity (1944) (0)
Richard Chace Tolman, 1881-1948. (1949) (0)
Science, strength, and stability (1946) (0)
The Engineer and His Relation to Government (1937) (0)
The Independent Research Institution (1954) (0)
A National Science Foundation. (1947) (0)
Research Agency Planned (1945) (0)
Note on “correction of spherical error of a pendulum”☆ (1952) (0)
Administering Two Observatories (1948) (0)
IN HONOR OF PROFESSOR ELIHU THOMSON. (1933) (0)
Letter from Vannevar Bush to W. W. Palmer, Isaiah Bowman, Henry Allen Moe, and Irvin Stewart (1945) (0)
The promises of peace (1947) (0)
Dedication of the Palomar Observatory and the Hale Telescope (1948) (0)
Professional Collaboration. (1957) (0)
The engineer and his relation to government (1937) (0)
NOTES: The Builders (1970) (0)
Improved Automatic Microtome (1955) (0)
Research and the war effort (1943) (0)
MIT Radiation Lab Index (1953) (0)
[Radiation Laboratory series] Index (1953) (0)
The qualities of a profession: As outlined in a recent address delivered before American Engineering Council (1939) (0)
Science and National Defence (1941) (0)

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