WHO IS ADVISING THE PRESIDENT ON SUPERCONDUCTIVITY?
In his 28 July 87 address to the 2,000 scientists, engineers and businessmen gathered in Washington for the “Federal Conference on Commercial Applications of Superconductivity,” the President promised to name a group of “wise men” to advise him on this subject. True to his word, the White House recruited the “Advisory Group to the President on Commercial Applications of Superconductivity.” The Chairman of the group is Ralph Gomory, Vice President for Research at IBM, and its members include such clear-eyed scientists as Praveen Chaudhari, Ted Geballe, Bob Schrieffer and Kent Bowen. What was the advice of this distinguished group on Title IV? They were never consulted. 3. MEANWHILE, “HIGH Tc” HAS BEEN REDEFINED! It’s a good thing the Japanese don’t have a Superconductivity Competitiveness Act. Superconductivity above 120 K in a bismuth compound was announced by a group at the National Research Institute for Metals in Japan on 23 Jan 88. Most American researchers learned it just three da
