The Vannevar Bush Award has been given each year since 1980 by National Science Foundation to persons who contributed most "toward the welfare of mankind and the nation".
The award is named after the American scientist Vannevar Bush (1890-1974).
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in the formula should be understood as "either of those element(s) of the field whose square equals b2 - 4ac". In some fields, some elements ...