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President Conant and ten other prominent scientists were appointed by President Truman as an advisory board to Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson. The group will help coordinate scientific research and defense planning.
The body will also concern itself with top secret research in all the sciences, including atomic, the White House announcement disclosed. Oliver E. Buckley, chairman of the board of the Bell Telephone laboratories has been asked to serve as chairman of the group. Conant and Buckley are members of the general advisory committee of the Atomic Energy Commission.
James R. Killian, president of M.I.T., Lee Dubridge, president of the California Institute of Technology, J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Institute for Advanced Study, and Detlev W. Bronk, president of Johns Hopkins, are among the others named by the President.
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