Practicing Physics: Robert Frosch, Science, Technology, and Public Policy senior research associate, discusses "Application Oriented R&D: Aphorisms and Anecdotes" at an Energy Technology Innovation Policy (ETIP) seminar in March. Frosch, a theoretical physicist also known as the "father of industrial ecology," is a former administrator of NASA, assistant executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and vice president of General Motors in charge of Research Laboratories.