Views on Science Policy of the 1983 U.S. Nobel Laureates in Science. Hearing before the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-Eighth Congress, Second Session, March 8, 1984.

Four of the 1983 United States Nobel laureates in science provided the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology with their views about the current state of American science and U.S. government science policy as well as comments on one or more aspects which they believed should be brought to the committee's attention. These laureates are: (1) Gerard Debreu (laureate in economics for research on market equilibrium); (2) William Fowler (one of two astrophysicists awarded the Nobel prize in physics for research on stellar evolution); (3) Barbara McClintock (laureate in medicine and physiology for her discovery of "mobile genetics elements"); and (4) Henry Taube (laureate in chemistry for creative work in inorganic chemistry). One of the major areas addressed by these laureates was the continued financial support for science programs, laboratory equipment, and training of future scientists. (JN)