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Appendix A: Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy: Member and Staff Biographical Information
Appendix A: Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy: Member and Staff Biographical Information
Pages 29-36
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Alberts, president of the National Academy of Sciences, is a respected biochemist recognized for his work in biochemistry and molecular biology. He is noted particularly for his extensive study of the protein complexes that allow chromosomes to be replicated, as required for a living cell to divide.
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He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Public Administration. He serves on the Technology Assessment Advisory Committee to the Technology Assessment Board of the Congress.
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He earned a BS and an MS in wood technology at the State University of New York College of Forestry at Syracuse University, a PhD in plant pathology and biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin, and Filosofie Licensiat and Filosofie Doktor degrees in physiologic botany at the University of Uppsala in Sweden. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1973.
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He advanced through many positions to become Director in 1970 to 1977 and professor of electrical engineering in 1971-1981. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1975 and serves on many advisory committees and boards in the National Research Council and in government.
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After being a Higgins Lecturer and assistant professor at Princeton, he joined IBM in 1959, and became vice president in 1973, and was senior vice president for science and technology in 1985-1989. A member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering, he has received the Lanchester Prize in 1963, the John von Neumann Theory Prize in 1984, the IEEE Engineering Leadership Recognition Award in 1988, the National Medal of Science in 1988, the Arthur M
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Dr. Preston is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Philosophical Society.
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He returned to AT&T as executive vice president for Corporate Affairs and planning in 1980, and became the first Chair and CEO of AT&T Communications in 1984. He was vice president of the National Academy of Engineering until June 1998.
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and as a member and chair of the Inspection Panel at the World Bank (1994-1997~. He worked closely with the National Academy of Sciences during his tenure in senior positions at the Agency for International Development (1986-1993)
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