As a researcher who experienced firsthand the immense growth of federal support for scientific research after 1940, Kornberg was troubled by deep research budget cuts during the Nixon administration. As he noted in this essay, scientific research was increasingly important to society, but like anything else, needed advocates to keep the public--and their representatives in government--aware of its value.. Based on remarks made at the Markle Scholars' Meeting.
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