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U.S. EFFORTS TO COMMERCIALIZE
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY

HEARING

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON
GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
UNITED STATES SENATE

ONE HUNDREDTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

JUNE 28, 1988

Printed for the use of the Committee on Governmental Affairs

For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office
U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402

CONTENTS

Opening statements: Page

Senator Glenn 1

Senator Sasser 3

WITNESSES

Tuesday, June 28, 1988

Hon. Dave McCurdy, a Representative in Congress from the State of Oklaho-

ma 4

John Gibbons, Ph.D., Director, Office of Technology Assessment, accompanied

by John Alic, Ph.D., Project Director, and W. Wendell Fletcher, Deputy

Project Director 7

Richard K. Quisenberry, Ph.D., Director of Research, DuPont Corporation,

Wilmington, DE 16

John M. Rowell, Ph.D., Assistant Vice President, Solid State Science and

Technology, Bellcore Corporation, Red Bank, NJ 19

Prof. M.R. Beasley, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Palo

Alto, CA 24

D. Bruce Merrifield, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Productivity, Tech-

nology, and Innovation 31

William R. Graham, Jr., Ph.D., Science Advisor to the President, Director,

Office of Science and Technology Policy 34

Alphabetical List Of Witnesses

Alic, John, Ph.D.: Testimony 7

Beasley, Prof. M.R:

Testimony 24

Responses to written questions 79

Fletcher, W. Wendell: Testimony 7

Gibbons, John, Ph.D.:

Testimony 7

Prepared statement with an attachment 48

Responses to written questions 62

Graham, William R., Jr., Ph.D.:

Testimony 34

Prepared statement 100

Responses to written questions 110

McCurdy, Hon. Dave:

Testimony 4

Prepared statement 41

Merrifield, D. Bruce:

Testimony 31

Prepared statement 83

Responses to written questions 95

Rowell, John M., Ph.D.:

Testimony 19

Responses to written questions 73

Quisenberry, Richard K.:

Testimony 16

Prepared statement 66

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APPENDIX

Page

Prepared statements of witnesses in order of appearance 41

"Commercializing High-Temperature Superconductivity," Office of Technology Assessment, June 1988 115

"Federal Research Programs in Superconductivity," Federal Coordinating Committee on Science, Engineering and Technology, May 1988 280