Reminiscences of Wallace R. Brode [electronic resource] : oral history, 1972

Biographical Note

Chemist

Scope and Contents

Associate Director of National Bureau of Standards, 1954-58; arguments with establishment of Department of Science, visit to Soviet Union to negotiate with Russian Academy exhange of scientific personnel, scientific journals; co-chairman of People to People Committee for Scientists and Engineers; member of Scientific Manpower Commisssion concerned with unemployment of scientists and engineers; Science Adviser to Secretary of State, 1958-60

Subjects

• Berliner, David, interviewer.
• Brode, Wallace R. (Wallace Reed), 1900-1974--Interviews.
• Chemists--Interviews.
• Exchange of publications--Soviet Union.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Scientists in government.
• United States--Foreign relations--1953-1961.
• United States. Department of State.
• United States. National Bureau of Standards.