Lewis M. Branscomb

Lewis M. Branscomb

Lewis M. Branscomb (born August 17, 1926 in Asheville, North Carolina), is an American physicist. He received his PhD from Harvard in 1949. He is the Professor emeritus of Public Policy and Corporate Management, in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

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"Policymaking by ideology requires that reality be set aside; it can be maintained only by moving towards ever more authoritarian forms of governance." [Mooney, Chris, "The Republican War on Science". Basic Books, 2005. p. 251]

External links

* [http://www.branscomb.org/lewis.html Lewis Branscomb's web page] (with full curriculum vitae)
* [http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4531.html Oral History interview transcript with Lewis McAdory Branscomb 7 April 1986, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives]

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