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APPENDIX A: BIOGRAPHICAL DATA OF PANEL MEMBERS
H. GUYFORD STEVER, Ph.D, a corporate director, scientist and
engineer, served as White House Science and Technology Advisor
to President Ford and Director of the Office of Science and
Technology Policy and was Director of the National Science
Foundation from 1972-1976. Prior to his government service, he
was President of Carnegie Mellon University from 1965-1972 and
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology for the previous twenty years. He is a
member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National
Academy of Engineering. Dr. Stever has served as NAE Foreign
Secretary and Chairman of the National Academies' White Paper on
Space Policy. He was President of the Universities Research
Association, a fifty-four university consortium operating the
FERMI National Laboratory for the Department of Energy from
1982-1985.
LAURENCE J . ADAMS is the retired President of the Martin
Marietta Corporation. He received his B.S. (1948) in Aeronau-
tical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. His entire
professional career was spent with Martin Marietta Corporation.
His technical experience includes assignments as Stress Analyst;
Chief of Structures Design; Technical Director for the Titan ITI
development program; Director of Engineering, Denver Division;
and Vice President, Special Projects, prior to his assignment as
President, Martin Marietta Aerospace. He is a Director of
Martin Marietta Corporation and a Director and Immediate Past
President of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
He is a member of the National Aeronautics and Space Administra-
tion Advisory Council, the United States Air Force Scientific
Advisory Committee, the National Academy of Engineering, and
Chairman of the NASA Space Station Advisory Committee.
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DAVID ALTMAN retired in 1981 as Senior Vice President of the
Chemical Systems Division of United Technologies Corporation
after twenty-one years with the Corporation. He received an
A.B. from Cornell University (1940) and a Ph.D from the Univer-
sity of California at Berkeley (1943~. After graduation, he
spent two and one-half years at the University of California
Radiation Laboratory (Manhattan Project), eleven years as Chief
Chemist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at California Institute
of Technology and three years as Director of the Vehicle Tech-
nology Laboratory at Aeronautic Systems, Inc. Dr. Altman's
specialty is in propulsion science, encompassing solid, liquid,
hybrid and ranjet systems. He has served on numerous government
committees, received the AIAA Propulsion Award in 1964, and has
authored over twenty-five articles in scientific publications.
In 1959, he became involved in the development of large seg-
mented solid propellant rockets and in 1976, received the George
Mead Medal from UTC "----contributions to the 100% successful
performance of solid rocket boosters during ten (Titan)
launches." He currently holds an appointment as Consulting
Professor in the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department at
Stanford University.
ROBERT C. ANDERSON is an engineering consultant, recently
retired from TRW, Inc., Redondo Beach, California, as a vice
president. He received his B.S. in mechanical/aeronautical
engineering from the University of Colorado (1943) and did grad-
uate work at the University of California at Los Angeles and the
University of Southern California in engineering and business.
His twenty-nine years of technical and work at TRW included Vice
President and General Manager of the Development Group respon-
sible for a range of research and development activities in
alternative and nonconventional energy areas. His other
activities included rocket boosters, missiles, spacecraft and
aerospace systems with primary emphasis on propulsion. He was
the project manager of the Apollo Luner Module descent engine
and the Mars Lander Biology Instrument; was manager for propul-
sion for the Minuteman Missile; and was Vice President and
General Manager of the Ballistic Missile Division. Prior to
coming to TRW, he spent twelve years at the Naval Weapons Center
doing engineering work on development, manufacturing and testing
of rockets. He received the Navy's Outstanding Service Award.
He has served on numerous panels and committees for several
government agencies as well as the National Research Council.
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JACK L. BLUMENTHAL is a Chief Engineer of the Engineering Opera-
tions of TRW's Space and Technology Group. He received his B.S.
(1958), M.S. (1959) and Ph.D (1963) degrees from the University
of California at Los Angeles in chemical engineering. In his
twenty-five years at TRW, Dr. Blumenthal has been responsible
for a broad range of development and testing activities in the
areas of materials science, propulsion and energy conversion.
He holds twelve U.S. patents.
ROBERT C . FORNEY is an Executive Vice President, member of the
Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the DuPont Com-
pany. He has responsibility for the direction and coordination
of DuPont's research and development activities. He received
his bachelor's and doctorate degrees in chemical engineering
from Purdue University. Dr. Forney joined DuPont in 1950 as a
research engineer at the Experimental Station near Wilmington,
DeJ aware. Advancing in various research, technical and market-
ing management positions in the Textile Fibers Department, he
became Vice President and General Manager of the department in
1975. He was named Vice President of the Plastic Products and
Resins Department in 1977. He was appointed Senior Vice Presi-
dent and member of the Executive Committee and elected to the
Board of Directors in 1979. He was appointed Executive Vice
President in 1981.
ALAN N. GENT is Professor of Polymer Physics and Polymer
Engineering at the University of Akron, where he has taught
since 1961. He received the B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics
from the University of London. He served as Chairman of the
Division of High-Polymer Physics of the American Physical
Society (1977-78), President of the Adhesion Society (1978-80),
President of the Society of Rheology (1981-83), and Chairman of
three Gordon Research Conferences: Elastomers (1966), Cellular
Materials (1969), and Adhesion (1977~.
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DEAN K. HANINK was Manager Engineering Operations, Gas Turbine
Engines for Detroit Diesel Allison Division of General Motors in
Indianapolis, until his retirement on May 1, 1981. He attended
the University of Michigan and received a B.S. degree in Meta1-
lurgical Engineering in 1942. He was named Chief Metallurgist
at Detroit Diesel Allison in 1956, followed by an appointment as
Engineering Manager of Gas Turbine Engines. He is a Fellow in
the American Society for Metals, holds the 1974 Engineer of
Distinction award from the National Joint Council, and is an
honorary member of the Society of Automotive Engineers. Mr.
Hanink served as President of the American Society for Metals in
1975. He has served as a member of the SAE Aerospace Council
and as a member of the Air Force Studies Board of the National
Research Council.
JAMES W. MAR is a Hunsaker Professor of Aerospace Education in
the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, where he received degrees of S.B.
(1941), S.M. (1946) and Sc.D (1949) in Civil Engineering.
Professor Mar is Director of the MIT Space Systems Laboratory
and the Technology Laboratory for Advanced Composites. He was
Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force in 1970-1972 and Depart-
ment Head at MIT in 1980-1982. He is a Fellow of the American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and a member of the
National Academy of Engineering.
EDWARD W. PRTCE is Regents' Professor of Aerospace Engineering
at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received a B.A. from
the University of California at Los Angeles (1948) in
Mathematics and Physics. He has conducted research in solid
rocket Wrapup sion and related combustion and fluid dynamics
problems starting in 1941 at California Institute of Technology,
and continuing at the U.S. Naval Weapons Center (1944-1974) and
at Georgia Tech (1974-present). At NWC, he was the head of
Aerothermochemistry Division of the Research Department
(1960-1974~. He is the author of numerous research papers and
patents on combustion and propulsion, and has served on and
chaired many government and professional society committees
related to rocket propulsion. His research and service have
been honored by many government and professional society awards,
including the AIAA Goddard Astronautics Award, Dryden Research
Award, and Pendray Literature Award.
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ROBERT W. WATT is a physicist with 40 years of experience in the
design, construction, and operation of high energy physics
experiments at the University of California at Berkeley and the
Stanford Linear Accelerator. He is an expert in cryogenic
systems, having developed liquid helium refrigerators for large
superconducting magnets and a series of liquid
chambers. He is also an expert in the design of O-ring seals in
very high pressure systems. He retired as ~ - ' ~
Leader at the Stanford Linear Accelerator in 1986
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cryogenic Group
MYRON F. UMAN has been a member of the professional staff of the
National Research Council since 1975. He holds a Ph.D degree in
electrical engineering ~ ~ -
sity (1968~.
and plasma physics Prom Princeton Univer-
Concurrent with his assignment as Project Director
of the Panel for Technical Evaluation of NASA's Redesign of the
Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster, he has served earlier as
Associate Executive Director of the Committee on Science,
Engineering and Public Pop icy and now as Associate Executive
Director of the Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics and
Resources . Previously, he was Staf f Director of the
Environmental Studies Board. Prior to j oining the NRC, he was a
member of the faculty of the College of Engineering, University
of California at Davis
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