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( United States National Academy of Sciences)
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as "advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine." The Civil War caused a need for a national academy. The Act of Incorporation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln on March 3, 1863, created the National Academy of Sciences and named 50 charter members. Many of the original NAS came from the so-called American Scientific Lazzaroni, an informal network of mostly physical scientists working in the vicinity of Cambridge, Massachusetts (circa 1850s)[1]. In 1863 enlisting the support of Alexander Dallas Bache and Charles Henry Davis, a professional astronomer recently recalled from the Navy to Washington to head the Bureau of Navigation, Louis Agassiz and Benjamin Peirce planned the steps whereby the National Academy of Sciences was to be established. Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts was to name Agassiz to the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian. On the pretext of desiring to discuss his new duties, Agassiz was to come to Washington at government expense to plan the organization with the others. So it was done, bypassing Joseph Henry, who had already made known his reluctance to have a bill for such an academy presented to Congress in the belief that such a resolution would be “opposed as something at variance with our democratic institutions.” Agassiz, Davis, Peirce, Benjamin Gould, and Senator Wilson met at Bache's house and hurriedly wrote the bill incorporating the Academy, including in it the name of fifty incorporators.
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United States National Academy of Sciences Articles
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and The Symptoms by Lorna Darden
Lupus is a disorder of the immune system. It can affect people between the ages of 15-45 years of age. Lupus can develop later on in life as well. Lupus which is known as autoimmune disease turns your immune system against the body parts that it i...
How Surgical Weight Loss Can Add 10 Years to Your Life by Dr. Paya
Obesity is a growing epidemic here in the United States. Not just a cosmetic problem, the health problems associated with obesity are varied and numerous. According to an article from WebMD.com, someone who is 40% overweight is twice as likely to die...
Diabetics in United States Discover a Natural Weight Loss Remedy from India by Robert Tracy
In India and the Far East, their ancient medical culture prefers natural, herbal remedies to treat major degenerative illnesses, such as Type 2 diabetes.
With over 5,000 years of experience in healing disease with wild-growing, natur...
The United States is starting to take weight loss more seriously by John Scott
This April has been good news month in Philadelphia. According to a report published in Pediatrics, a research project to tackle obesity among children has been a success. Ten elementary schools were chosen, five instituted the weight loss program (a...
Keep CODEX Guidelines Out of the United States by Life Extension Foundation
Keep CODEX Guidelines Out of the United States
On any given day, one of our 535 Representatives and Senators can introduce a bill that interferes with basic health freedoms. The sad fact is that we as citizens are at the mercy of the lawm...
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