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English: President Harry S. Truman, Dr. Vannevar Bush and members of the National Defense Research Committee. Seated are Dr. James Conant, President of Harvard University; President Truman; and Dr. Alfred N. Richards, Head of Office of Scientific Research and Development. Standing are Dr. Karl T. Compton, President of MIT; Dr. Lewis H. Weed, National Academy of Sciences; Dr. Vannevar Bush, Director, Office of Scientific Research and Development; Dr. Frank B. Jewett, New York; Dr. J. C. Hunsaker, MIT; Dr. Roger Adams, University of Illinois; Dr. A. Baird Hastings, Harvard Medical School; and Dr. A. R. Dochez, Columbia University.