Government Scientist

A goverment scientist is a scientist who is employed by a country's government. Government Scientist are usually university professors or students who are recruited by the government to work on a government-funded and sponsored scientific project or on a government scientific research and development department. Notable government scientist include J. Robert Oppenheimer of the Manhattan Project and Michael D. Griffin, current administrator of NASA.
In Singapore
In Singapore, government scientists are classified according to the Departmental Titles (Alteration) (Amendment) Act 1996, which amended the Departmental Titles (Alteration) Ordinance of 1950.

In the United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, government scientists are part of the Scientific Civil Service. However, that was not always the case.
Before the Second World War, government scientists were recruited and employed by the Civil Service on an ad hoc basis, with grades, job titles, and organizations varying from department to department. In 1930, the Carpenter Comittee was appointed to investigate the organization of civil service scientific and technical staff, and its report proposed a reorganization that covered the entire Service. This report was endorsed by the Tomlin Commission, however it was impossible to reach agreement with the relevant staff associations, who wanted other professional groups within the civil service to be similarly reorganized, and nothing ended up happening.
World War 2 changed this, by causing a far greater number of scientific and technical staff to be employed by the government. The Barlow Committee on Scientific Staff in Government Departments reviewed the positions of government scientists during wartime, issuing a report on 1943-04-23. This report spurred the creation of a government white paper, entitled The Scientific Civil Service, which resulted in a reorganization of government scientists across the entire Service. This reorganization classified government scientists across the entire Service into three major classes, along similar lines to those which civil servants for the Treasury had already been classified:
After the war, scientific research was continued by agencies such as the Office of Naval Research established in 1947, which again employed scientists as contractors. Scientific research was published in the normal way. The Atomic Energy Commission, established in 1946, and the National Institutes of Health, established in 1930, also paid scientists for scientific research, and were major sources of government research funding.

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