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Panel on Science and Technology Centers
PANEL BIOGRAPHIES
RICHARD N. ZARE (Chairman) is Professor of Chemistry at Stanford
University.
From 1975 to 1977, Dr. Zare served as Higgins Professor of Natural
Science at Columbia University before joining Stanford University as
Professor in the Department of Chemistry. In 1985, as a recipient of the
National Medal of Science, he was cited "for his seminal contributions to
molecular spectroscopy, photochemistry, and chemical reaction dynamics,
especially for his incisive theoretical methods and the development of the
experimental technique of laser induced fluorescence." He serves in an
editorial and advisory capacity for the journals of Chemical Physics
Letters, Chemical Physics, The Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy, and
Chemical and Engineering News. Dr. Zare holds both a B.A. in
Chemistry and Physics (1961) and a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics (1964) from
Harvard University.
NORMAN M. BRADBURN is Provost of the University of Chicago.
Dr. Bradburn joined the faculty of the Graduate School of Business,
University of Chicago, in 1960. He served as Chairman of the Department
of Behavioral Sciences from 1973 to 1979 and is Tiffany and Margaret Blake
Distinguished Service Professor ~ 1977- ). In 1984 he became Provost. He
was also Director of the National Opinion Research Center, Chicago
(1967-1971; 1979-1984~. His publications include The Structure of
Well-Being (1970), Side by Side, A Study of Integrated
Psychological
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Neighborhood s ( 197 1, with S. Superman, G. Gockel), and Asking
Questions, A Practical Guide to Questionnaire Construction (1983, with
S. Sudman). Dr. Bradburn is a Fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science and the American Statistics Association and a
member of the International Statistics Institute, the American
Sociological Association, and the American Association for Public Opinion
Research. Dr. Bradburn received a B.A. from the University of Chicago
(1952) and Oxford (1955) and a M.A. (1958) and Ph.D. in Social Psychology
(1960) from Harvard University.
PRAVEEN CHAUDHARI is Vice President for Science and Director of the
Physical Sciences Department, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, IBM
Corporation, Yorktown Heights, New York.
Dr. Chauclhari served as a member of the IBM Corporation research staff
from 1966 to 1980, during which time he became Director of the Physical
Sciences Department. Dr. Chaudhari is a recipient of the Leadership Award
of the Metallurgical Society of the American Institute of Mechanical
Engineering and the George E. Pake Award of the American Physical
Society. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of
the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He serves on a
number of committees and advisory boards and in several editorial
positions. His research interests are in amorphous solids, defects in
solids, superconductivity, quantum transport, magnetic monopoles, and
neutrino mass localization. Dr. Chaubhari received a B.A. (1961) from the
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and Sc.D. (1966) from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
ERNEST G. JAWORSKI is Director of Biological Sciences at the Monsanto
Company, St. Louis, Missouri.
Dr. Jaworsk~ began his professional experience in chemistry at the
University of Minnesota. Beginning in 1952, he held several positions
with Monsanto Company including Resident Biochemist (1952-1954), Resident
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Group Leader ~ 1 954- 1960), Scientist ( 1 960- 1962), Senior Scientist
(1962-1970), and Distinguished Science Fellow (1970- ). Concurrently, he
is a member of the Frasch Foundation Awards Committee of the American
Chemical Society (1969- ); he has served as Chairman, Gordon Conference on
Plant Cell and Tissue Culture ( 1 973- 1975) and was a Trustee ( 1 975- l 9X 1 ~
and later Chairman of the Board of Trustees ( 1978-1979) for Gordon
Research Conferences, Inc. He serves in an editorial capacity with The
Journal o f the A merican Society o f Plant Physiologists ( 1 97 3- ),
Trend s in Biotechnology ( 1984- ), and BioScience ( 1984- ). His
research interests are in plant growth regulation, hormones and
metabolism; plant chemotherapeutic investigations; mechanism of action of
herbicides; radioisotope techniques; biosynthesis of chitin; plant cell
and tissue culture; plant organogenesis; cell biology, and molecular
biology. Dr. Jaworski holds a B.S. ( 1948) from the University of
Minnesota and a US. (1950) and Ph.D. in Biochemistry (1952) from Oregon
State University.
DANIEL KLEPPNER is Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics and Associate
Director of the Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Dr. Kleppner joined the Department of Physics at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in 1966. From 1976 to 1979, he was Head of the
Division of Atomic, Condensed Matter and Plasma Physics, Department of
Physics. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the
American Academy of Arts and Science and a fellow of the American Physical
Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He
has served as Chairperson of the Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical
Physics of the American Physical Society and is currently a Councilor of
that society. In 1986, Dr. Kleppner was awarded the Davisson-Germer Prize
of the American Physical Society. His research interests are in
experimental atomic physics, high-precision measurements, and quantum
optics. Dr. Kleppner received a B.A. from Williams College ( 1953) and
from Cambridge University ( 1955~; he has a Ph.D. in Physics ( 1960) from
Harvard University.
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JOSHUA LEDERBERG is President of Rockefeller University, New York
Dr. Lederberg moved from Assistant Professor to Professor of Genetics
at the University of Wisconsin (1947-1958) and became Professor of Medical
Genetics and Chairman of the Department in 1955. He became Professor and
Chairman of Genetics in the Medical School at Stanford University in 1959
and in 1978 joined Rockefeller University. He also held an appointment in
the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. Dr. Lederberg has
served as a consultant to the Syntex Corporation, Cetus Corporation,
Celanese, and many government agencies. His research interests are in
microbiology, molecular genetics and evolution, science policy, and
computer science. Dr. Lederberg received a B.A. ~ 1944) from Columbia
University and a Ph.D. in Microbiology (1947) from Yale University.
DONALD J. LEWIS is Professor of Mathematics at the University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Dr. Lewis advanced from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor at
the University of Notre Dame ~ 1953- 1961); he moved to the University of
Michigan in 1961 and became Professor of Mathematics in 1963 and Chairman
of the Department in 1984. He was concurrently NSF Senior Fellow at
Manchester and Cambridge universities (1959-1961~; Senior Visiting Fellow
at Cambridge University ~ 1965- 1969~; Visiting Fellow, Brasenose College,
Oxford ~ 1969~; and Guest Professor at Heidelberg University ~ 1979- 1980,
1983~. He was awarded the Humboldt Stiftung Senior Award in 1980 and
1982. He is a member of the American Mathematics Society and the
Mathematics Association of America. Dr. Lewis was Chairman of the
Editorial Board for Mathematical Reviews and currently serves on the
editorial boards of Zentralblatt fur Mathematik, Acta Arithmetica, and
Journal of Number Theory. His research interests are in Diophantine
equations, finite fields, and algebraic number theory. Dr. Lewis holds a
B.S. ~ 1946) from the College at St. Thomas and a US. ~ 1949) and Ph.D
(1950) in Mathematics from the University of Michigan.
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WILLIAM PRESS is Professor of Astronomy and of Physics at Harvard
University.
Dr. Press is a member of the Center for Astrophysics and former
Chairman of the Department of Astronomy at Harvard (1982-1985~. He was
Tolman Research Fellow in Theoretical Physics at the California Institute
of Technology (1972-1973) and Assistant Professor of Physics at Princeton
University ~ 1973- 1976~. Dr. Press concurrently is a consultant for the
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ~ 1973- ), Mitre Corporation
(1977- ), and Los Alamos National Laboratory (1984- ). He won the Warner
Prize of the American Astronomy Society in 1981. Dr. Press has served in
a number of advisory positions with the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, the National Academy of Sciences, the Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. He is Chairman of the
Advisory Board to the National Science Foundation Institute for
Theoretical Physics and is a member of the Defense Science Board. Dr.
Press's research interests are relativistic astrophysics, theoretical
astrophysics, cosmology, galaxy formation, general relativity, and
numerical methods. Dr. Press received an A.B. (1969) from Harvard
University, and a US. ~ 1971 ~ and Ph.D. in Physics ~ 1972) from the
California Institute of Technology.
LEON T. SILVER is the W. M. Keck Foundation Professor for Resource
Geology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California
Institute of Technology, Pasadena.
Dr. Silver has been an educator with the California Institute of
Technology since 1955. He was a geologist with the United States
Geological Survey from 1947 to 1975; a Guggenheim Fellow (1964-1965); a
member of the Subcommittee on Geochronology, International Union of
Geological Sciences ~ 1970~; and Chairman ~ 1984- 1985) of the Committee on
Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, National Academy of Sciences,
National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine. He is
currently a consultant with the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration ~ 1971 - ), from which he received the Exceptional Science
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Achievement Medal 1971. He is a member of the National Academy of
Sciences, the Mineralogical Society of America, Geochemical Society,
American Geophysical Union, American Association for the Advancement of
Science, ant! American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has served as
President of the Geological Society. His research interests are in
igneous and metamorphic petrology; geochemistry of uranium, thorium, and
lead; geochronology; regional geology of the southwestern United States;
tectonic history of North America; and mineralogy and petrology of
meteorites and lunar materials. Dr. Silver received a B.Sc. ~ 1945) from
the University of Colorado, a M.S. ~1948) from the University of New
Mexico, and a Ph.D. in Geology and Geochemistry (1955) from the California
Institute of Technology.
LARRY SMARR is Director of the National Center for Supercomputing
Applications and Professor in the Departments of Astronomy and Physics,
University of Illinois, Champaign.
Dr. Smarr was a lecturer in the Department of Astrophysics, Princeton
University (1974-1975), and subsequently a Junior Fellow in the Harvard
Society of Fellows (1976-1979~. While at Harvard, he was also a research
affiliate with the Department of Physics, Yale University (1978-1979~. He
has been on the faculty of the University of Illinois since 1979. He was
Visiting Fellow, Cambridge University (1978) and Max Planck Institute for
Physics and Astrophysics ~ 1981 - 1983~. He has been consultant with the
Smithsonian Astrophysics Observatory ~ 1979- 1981), and currently consults
with the Los Alamos National Laboratory (1983- ~ and Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory ~ 1976- ). Dr. Smarr is a member of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society,
and the American Astronomy Society. He was associate editor for the
Journal of Computational Physics ( 1977-1980) and currently serves on
the editorial board of Science. His research interests are in
relativistic astrophysics, radio galaxies, numerical relativity, and
numerical hydrodynamics. Dr. Smarr holds a B.A. and a M:S. (1970) from
the University of Missouri, a M.S. ~ 1972) from Stanford University, and
Ph.D. in Physics (1975) from the University of Texas at Austin.
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JOSEPH E. VARNER is Charles Rebstock Professor of Biology, Department
of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.
Dr. Varner was a chemist with Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation
(1943-1944~; research engineer with Battelle Memorial Institute
(1946-1947); research associate with the Research Foundation (1949-1950)
and Assistant Professor of Agricultural Biochemistry (1950- 1953), Ohio
State University; Research Fellow, California Institute of
(1953- 1954); and Associate Professor and Professor at
University (1954- 1961). He was scientist of the Research
Technology
Ohio State
Institute of
Advanced Study, Martin-Marietta Company (1961-1965), and Professor with
Michigan State University (1965-1973). Concurrently, Dr. Varner was
National Science Foundation Fellow at Cambridge University (1959-1960) and
at the University of Washington (1971 - 1972). He is a member of the
National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
American Society of Biological Chemistry, American Society of Plant
Physiology, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science. His research interests are plant biochemistry, biochemistry
of aging cells, action mechanism of plant hormones, and cell wall
glycoproteins. Dr. Varner received a B.Sc. (1942), a M.Sc. (1943), and
Ph.D. in Biochemistry (1949) from Ohio State University. He holds an
honorary doctorate from L'Universite de Nancy (1977).
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