Congressional
Hearings Related to Nanotechnology |
The following Congressional
hearings that were held in 1999 (106th
Congress)
are relevant to nanoscale science, engineering, and technology research and to
the Administration's FY 2001 National Nanotechnology
Initiative (NNI).
HOUSE
HEARING: Nanotechnology:
The State of Nano-Science and Its Prospects for the Next Decade
June 22, 1999
Committee on Science; Basic
Research Subcommittee
Members reviewed federal funding of
nanotechnology research, discussed the role of the federal government in
supporting nano-science research, and discussed the economic implications of
scientific advances made in the field of nanotechnology. The hearing started on
Tuesday, June 22, 1999 at 3:00 p.m. in
room 2318 of the Rayburn House Office Building, Washington D.C. The
Honorable Nick Smith (R-MI), Chairman of the Subcommittee, presided.
Hearing Charter | Opening
Statement of Chairman Smith | Eddie
Bernice Johnson Statement |
The witnesses:
(Links are to
HTML files)
Dr. Eugene Wong, Assistant
Director of the National Science Foundation’s Engineering Directorate
Dr. Richard Smalley, Hackerman Professor of Chemistry, Rice
University
Dr. Ralph C. Merkle, XEROX
Mr. Paul McWhorter, Deputy Director of Sandia National
Laboratories’ Microsystems Science, Technology and Components Center
SENATE HEARING:
Emerging
Technologies in the New Millennium
May 12, 1999 Committee on
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Science, Technology and Space Subcommittee
Members examined incentives and barriers
created by the federal government in bringing new technologies to the
marketplace. The hearing started on Wednesday, May 12, at 2:30 p.m. in
room 253 of the Russell Senate Office Building, Washington D.C. Senator
Bill Frist (R-TN), Chairman of the Subcommittee, presided.
The witnesses:
(Links are to PDF files)
Panel I
Dr. Terry Douglas,
President, CTI, Incorporated
Mr. Ralph
Hutchinson, President, Scientific Materials Corporation (Appendix)
Mr. Don Jenkins,
President, CTI-SpaceBoard
Panel II
Dr. Timothy
Hammond, Co-Director, Tulane Environmental Astrobiology Center, Tulane
University Medical Center
Dr. Richard
Smalley, Hackerman Professor of Chemistry, Rice University
Dr. Helena
Wisniewski, Vice President, ANSER
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