PURDUE UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

     LAFAYETTE. INDIANA 47907
     March 18, 1969

PROGRAM IN SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY

Professor Marshall Niremberg
Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics
National Heart Institute
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland 20014

Dear Professor Niremberg:

Federal science policy and the nature of scientific advice is a significant
topic of concern.  Science policy is becoming a major area of emphasis in
research at several major universities.  Purdue University is one of these
and our own Program in Science and Public Policy is receiving substantial
support fram the National Science Foundation.  A major goal of the Program
is to develop an archive of reliable information of the sources of advice
used by the Federal government in making science policy. We hope you will
assist us in this phase of the project.

The attached questionnaire has been sent to you because you are a leader
in American science.  Only members of the National Academ of Sciences and

an equal number of the mo&t-cited scientists in the Science Citation Index
will receive this questionnaire.  Your scientific rejZXE%~ ETT

your participation-in science policy decision-making-makes you a-valuable
source of information.

We are asking you to include your name on the questionnaire. This is dane
to enable us to achieve as high a return as possible.  Rest assured that
individual responses will remain absolutely confidential and any data re-
ported will be in aggregate form only.

We hope this questionnaire covers the most significant questions con-
cerning this important subject area.  The questionnaire has been carefully
pre-tested; but, regardless of how sensitively constructed, all question-
naires seem simplistic and confining. Your additions, deletions, and
corrments are, therefore, respectfully solicited.

Completion of the questionnaire will take about 10 minutes of your time.
For your convenience a self-addressed, stamped return envelope is en-
closed.

Sincerely yours,

Ikm E. Kash
Director,
Program in Science
and Public Policy