A Remarkable Return On Investment In Fundamental Research: 40 Years of Basic Energy Sciences at the Department of Energy

Technical Report · Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1545686· OSTI ID:1545686

Drell, Persis ^[1]; Bonnell, Dawn A. ^[2]; Chen, Jingguang ^[3]; Clark, Sue ^[4]; Cuenya, Beatriz Roldan ^[5]; Dosch, Helmut ^[6]; Friend, Cynthia ^[7]; Gao, Yan ^[8]; Hammes-Schiffer, Sharon ^[9]; Kastner, Marc ^[10]; Kay, Bruce ^[11]; Leone, Stephen R. ^[12]; Louca, Despina ^[13]; de la Cruz, Monica Olvera ^[14]; Ourmazd, Abbas ^[15]; Piot, Philippe ^[16]; Robertson, Ian ^[17]; Rollett, Anthony ^[18]; Ross, Frances ^[19]; Rubloff, Gary ^[20] ; Santore, Maria ^[21]; Takeuchi, Esther S. ^[22]; Tranquada, John ^[23]; Wasserman, Stephen ^[24]

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1. Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
2. Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States)
3. Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States)
4. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA (United States)
5. Fritz Haber Inst. of the Max Planck Society, Berlin (Germany)
6. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)
7. Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
8. General Electric Company, Albany, NY (United States)
9. Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States)
10. Science Philanthropy Alliance, Palo Alto, CA (United States)
11. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
12. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
13. Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States)
14. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
15. Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI (United States)
16. Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL (United States)
17. Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
18. Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
19. IBM, Armonk, NY (United States)
20. Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
21. Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (United States)
22. Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States)
23. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
24. Stephen R. Wasserman LLC, Maplewood, NJ (United States)

In 1977, the Department of Energy established an office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES) to support fundamental research in areas pertinent to DOE missions. In the 40 years since its founding, BES has grown substantially, supporting both individual researchers and interdisciplinary teams of researchers at universities and national laboratories. It engages with the scientific community through an extensive network of advisory committees that help BES to identify high priority problems or areas of opportunity. BES has also created unique shared research facilities, open to all scientists, which have become a distinctive feature of the U.S. research effort and have greatly increased the productivity of university, federal, and industrial research efforts. BES collaborates closely with other federal research agencies, including other DOE offices focused on applied research. Such research often builds on new scientific knowledge generated by BES and advances it toward commercial technologies. In all, BES represents a bet on the future—a significant federal investment in new knowledge.

• Research Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Washington, DC (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
• OSTI ID: 1545686
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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