The National Institutes of Health (NIH), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
American Physical Society
The American Physical Society was founded on May 20, 1899, when 36 physicists gathered for this purpose at Columbia University.
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) was founded on March 3, 1863, in the midst of the Civil War.
Financing Science in the United States: Status, Trends
Total national funding for research and development in the U.S. is growing every year and in 1996 amounted to 184.3 billion dollars.
