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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Members, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources." National Research Council. 1991. The Decade of Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/1634.
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Appendix D

Members, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources

NORMAN HACKERMAN, Robert A. Welch Foundation, Chairman

ROBERT C. BEARDSLEY, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

B. CLARK BURCHFIEL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

GEORGE F. CARRIER, Harvard University

RALPH J. CICERONE, University of California, Irvine

HERBERT D. DOAN, The Dow Chemical Company (retired)

PETER S. EAGLESON, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

DEAN E. EASTMAN, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

MARYE ANNE FOX, University of Texas

GERHART FRIEDLANDER, Brookhaven National Laboratory

LAWRENCE FUNKHOUSER, Chevron Corporation (retired)

PHILLIP A. GRIFFITHS, Duke University

NEAL F. LANE, Rice University

CHRISTOPHER F. MCKEE, University of California, Berkeley

RICHARD S. NICHOLSON, American Association for the Advancement of Science

JACK E. OLIVER, Cornell University

JEREMIAH P. OSTRIKER, Princeton University Observatory

PHILIP A. PALMER, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company

FRANK L. PARKER, Vanderbilt University

DENIS J. PRAGER, MacArthur Foundation

DAVID M. RAUP, University of Chicago

ROY F. SCHWITTERS, Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory

LARRY L. SMARR, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

KARL K. TUREKIAN, Yale University

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Members, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources." National Research Council. 1991. The Decade of Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/1634.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Members, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources." National Research Council. 1991. The Decade of Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/1634.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Members, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources." National Research Council. 1991. The Decade of Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/1634.
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