National Academy of Sciences
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content: Kranzberg, Melvin, Dr., 1917-1995
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content: Melvin Kranzberg Papers
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content: Melvin Kranzberg Papers / Series 1: Consultation and Advisement, 1958-1987
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content: 1971-1979
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: NMAH.AC.0266, Subseries 1.3
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content: Archival materials
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content: Committee on the Survey of Materials Science and Engineering (COSMAT) contains correspondence, drafts, comments, and lists of members of COSMAT for the period Jan. 1971-November 9, 1978, in three boxes and twenty five folders, and is arranged chronologically.

In December 1970, the president of the National Academy of Sciences appointed COSMAT to prepare a summary report embracing both science and engineering in its coverage, centering on the relationship between the structure and properties of materials as a basis for their design, preparation, and utilization by all people. The report was prepared under the aegis of the Academy's Committee on Science and Public Policy (COSPUP).
Materials science and engineering is not a single discipline. The composition of the committee included about half from nonacademic institutions, one economist, one historian of technology, and one geologist—none were specialists in materials research.

 
Division of Behavioral Science consists of 1 folder containing the program "Science and The Problems of Society" and eight papers given at the Annual Meeting May 19-20, 1972.

Innovation, 1978-1979 includes drafts that examine U.S. Government policies and practices that affect innovation as instructed by the National Research Council Committee on Technology. Although three investigations were begun, only two monographs are in this sub-subdivision. Each of these documents is stamped "Privileged."