A Remarkable Return On Investment In Fundamental Research [electronic resource] : 40 Years of Basic Energy Sciences at the Department of Energy

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 628.5 Pollution control technology and industrial sanitation engineering
• Thông tin xuất bản: Washington, D.C. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Science ; Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2018
• Mô tả vật lý: Size: 64 p. : , digital, PDF file.
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 261901
• Chủ đề: 1. 12 management of radioactive and non-radioactive wastes from nuclear facilities; 2. 14 solar energy; 3. 36 materials science; 4. 37 inorganic, organic, physical, and analytical chemistry; 5. 59 basic biological sciences; 6. 60 applied life sciences; 7. 75 condensed matter physics superconductivity and superfluidity; 8. 77 nanoscience and nanotechnology; 9. 97 mathematics and computing; 10. 99 general and miscellaneous

Tóm tắt

In 1977, the Department of Energy established an office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES) to support fundamental research in areas pertinent to DOE missions. In the 40 years since its founding, BES has grown substantially, supporting both individual researchers and interdisciplinary teams of researchers at universities and national laboratories. It engages with the scientific community through an extensive network of advisory committees that help BES to identify high priority problems or areas of opportunity. BES has also created unique shared research facilities, open to all scientists, which have become a distinctive feature of the U.S. research effort and have greatly increased the productivity of university, federal, and industrial research efforts. BES collaborates closely with other federal research agencies, including other DOE offices focused on applied research. Such research often builds on new scientific knowledge generated by BES and advances it toward commercial technologies. In all, BES represents a bet on the future?a significant federal investment in new knowledge.