On April 22, 1953, the APS Council voted to request the President of the Society to appoint a Special Advisory Committee on Science and Learning in Government to consider the functions of science and learning in government and the conditions essential to their effective performance, and to authorize him to make such representations, from time to time, on behalf of the Society with respect to those matters, to officials of the government or to members of Congress, as may, in his judgment and in consultation with the Advisory Committee, be necessary or useful. The Special Committee consisted of Waldo G. Leland, Edwin G. Nourse, Merle T. Tuve, George W. Corner, Samuel S. Wilks.
