Scientists

President Harry S. Truman (left) presents the Collier Trophy to Lewis A. Rodert, chief of the flight research section of the Cleveland Laboratory on National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. He earned the trophy for his work in developing de-icing technology for airplanes.

President Harry S. Truman (right) sits with nuclear scientist Dr. Lise Meitner (left) at the banquet celebrating her choice as Woman of the Year by the Women's National Press Club. From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Vol 2.

Members of the Naval Scientific Expedition, picked up by the USS Huntington in Cape Town. From left to right Dr. Schwartz, Commander Amberdon (Military Command), undetermined, Lieutenant Vorhees, Commander Ruebush (Military Sealift Command).

Members of the President's Water Resources Policy Commission. First row, left to right: Roland R. Renne, Lewis Webster Jones, and Morris L. Cooke (Chairman). Back row, left to right: Leland Olds, Samuel B. Morris, Paul S. Burgess, and Gilbert F. White.

William B. Mabee, an entomologist with the United States Department of Agriculture, examines a handful of dead locusts in the desert area of Pakistan where locusts breed. Mr. Mabee directed a Point Four program conducted jointly by the governments of Pakistan and the United States to control a locust plague. Control measures consisted of aerial spraying of insecticide and hand-spreading poisoned bait.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, Jr. at White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico. From left to right: Pace, Dr. Louis Dunn, General Manton Eddy, and Mr. J.S. Piech. The men working in the background are unidentified.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (left) and Professor Frederick C. Lindvall (right) of California Technical University tour the campus in Pasadena, California.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (left) and Dr. Lee DuBridge, of California Tech University, converse prior to the Secretary's departure from Pasadena, California.

Unidentified Geological Survey scientists use Navy depth-finding equipment aboard the David C. MacNichol coastal freighter near Eastport, Maine. From: Oscar Chapman Scrapbook

From left to right, General Omar N. Bradley, President Harry S. Truman, and Karl T. Compton, President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They are attending the Jubilee Convocation of the United States Military Academy Sesquicentennial at West Point, New York.