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THE Supreme Commander, Allied Powers ('SCAP') has announced that a United States scientific mission to Japan "is scheduled to arrive in that country on or about November 26 and may be expected to remain until about December 18, 1948". The mission is composed of five distinguished American men of science, selected by the National Academy of Sciences, and includes : Dr. Detlev W. Bronk, chairman of the National Research Council, foreign secretary of the National Academy of Sciences, and president-elect of Johns Hopkins University ; Dr. E. C. Stakman, chief of the division of plant pathology and botany, University of Minnesota ; Dr. Zay Jeffries, vice-president of the General Electric Company, and general manager of its chemical department; Dr. I. I. Rabi, professor of physics, Columbia University ; Dr. Roger Adams, head of the department of chemistry, University of Illinois, and chairman of the scientific advisory group that visited Japan in 1947. Dr. Bronk is chairman of the present mission. The new mission is making the visit at a time when some forty thousand Japanese scientific workers, representing all fields of research, are participating in the election of 210 members for the country's first National Science Council. This election, due on December 20, is considered to be of unusual interest as it is thought to represent the first attempt of scientific workers of any country as a whole to elect members of its supreme scientific organ. The mission is expected to review progress made by Japanese men of science in the development of democratic national organisations for scientific activity. It is expected to bring up to date the report submitted by the previous advisory group ; recommendations by that group served as guides to 'SCAP' sections in judging proposals of the Japanese for the reorganisation of national scientific bodies. The group proposes to spend approximately one day each in Sendai, Sapporo, Kyoto and Hiroshima ; the remainder of the time will be spent in Tokyo in discussion with 'SCAP' personnel and Japanese scientific workers.
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U.S. Scientific Mission to Japan. Nature 162, 954–955 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162954e0
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