Abstract
Washington's science policy community has just experienced a major jolt to its equilibrium. The shock comes from the sudden retirement earlier this month of the Office of Management & Budget's deputy associate director for energy and science, Hugh F. Loweth, a slight, wispy figure with a cutting wit, was Mr. Science Dollars in Washington. Whatever the field—space, energy, general science, or industrial innovation—Loweth was the one person who most affected the budgets, priorities, and ways of thinking in those areas. In the words of one high official at the National Science Foundation, If there is any one person in Washington who you can say made a difference, it would have to be Loweth. One note in the guest book at Loweth's departure party last month said simply, A bad decision. The inscriber: NSF director Erich Bloch. I didn't know Hugh personally, says Robert M. Rosenzweig, president of the Association of American Universities, but ...
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