| Name |
Employed |
JASON |
Additional |
| Abarbanel, Henry D.I. |
University of California; Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Institute for Nonlinear Science |
80's - 21th |
Professor
of Physics. Some of the things his lab does research on are Erbium
doped fiber ring lasers and information processing in biological neural
assemblies. |
| Alivisatos, Paul |
University of California |
21th |
Chemist. Specialist in nanotechnology. |
| Alvarez, Luis W. |
University of California; Los Alamos; M.I.T.; MITRE; University of Chicago; Institut D'Egypte; IBM; Hewlett-Packard; PSAC |
60's-70's |
Developed
the detonators for 'Fat Man' during the Manhattan Project. On board the
Enola Gay as it dropped the bomb. Pushed for the development of
thermo-nuclear weapons. Together with J. Allen Hynek he was a member of
the January 1953 Durant Panel Report in which the recent UFO waves were
debunked as paranoia and considered no threat to national security.
According to the panel the phenomenon should be ignored because the
"irrelevant reports" were "clogging the channels of communication".
According to Hynek the Pentagon wouldn't allow any other position on
the subject. Joined the board of trustees of MITRE, founded in 1959,
and left in 1967. In 1965, Alvarez X-rayed the great pyramid of Khafre
(Giza) in search for hidden chambers. Initially the team reported all
kinds of anomalous behavior which made their data unreadable, but
quickly thereafter they reported that there weren't any problems and
that nothing was found. Received the Nobel Prize in 1968. Held a
lakeside talk at the Bohemian Grove in 1969.Analyzed the Zapruder film
in 1967, which convinced the Church Committee in 1976 that Kennedy's
headshot could have been caused by a bullet from behind, indicating
Oswald was the sole assassin. In 1980, together with his son, he
developed the theory that an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs 65
million years ago. |
| Amarel, Saul |
Columbia University; DARPA |
70's-80's |
Saul
Amarel was born in Salonika, Greece, and moved with his family to what
became Israel, where he fought in Israel's war of independence. He then
went to Columbia University and later helped develop the field of
artificial intelligence. He ran the National Institutes of Health's
first project on use of computers in such diverse fields as
biomedicine, engineering design and ecology. Amarel served as director
of the Information Sciences and Technology Office of the DARPA from
1985 to 1988. He founded the computer science department at Rutgers
University. |
| Banks, Peter M. |
University of Michigan; Stanford University; NASA |
80's - 90's |
Professor
of Physics and Engineering. Principal Investigator for NASA on many
scientific projects, including three Space Shuttle experiments in the
last decade. In the mid-1980s he headed an international group of scientists who assisted NASA with science planning and accommodations for the International Space Station. |
| Berman, Samuel M. |
University of California; Stanford University; |
70's - 80's |
Professor
of Physics and an expert in the effects of light. Worked on the concept
that major increases in light source efficiency are achievable. |
| Bildsten, Lars |
University of California; Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics; American Physical Society |
21th |
Assistant and associate professor in both the Physics and Astronomy
departments at University of California, Berkeley from January 1995
through July 1999. During the most recent Decadal Survey of Astronomy
and Astrophysics , Bildsten served on two NRC Panels: High Energy
Astrophysics from Space and Theory, Computation and Data Exploration.
He was an elected member of the Executive Committee of the High Energy
Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society in 2000 and
2001 and served on the NRC's Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics
from 2001 to 2005. He was recently elected to serve on the Executive
Committee of the Division of Astrophysics of the American Physical
Society. Today a professor at the Department of Physics of the Kavli
Institute for Theoretical Physics. |
| Block, Steven M. |
Stanford University |
90's - 21th |
Professor of biological sciences and of applied physics. Studies the effect of bio-weapons. |
| Branscomb, Lewis M. |
Harvard; University of Colorado; University of California; Scripps
Institution for Oceanography; BCSIA; IBM; National Science Board;
Carnegie; RAND; MITRE; NGC; PSAC; CFR; American Ditchley Foundation |
1960's |
Professor
of physics. Branscomb pioneered the study of atomic and molecular
negative ions and their role in the atmospheres of the earth and stars
and was a co-founder of the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics
(JILA) at the University of Colorado. While there, he was Editor of the
Reviews of Modern Physics. After serving as director of the U.S.
National Bureau of Standards (now the Institute for Standards and
Technology) from 1969–1972, he was named vice president and chief
scientist of IBM Corporation and a member of the IBM Corporate
Management Board. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter appointed him to the
National Science Board and in 1980, he was elected chairman, serving
until May 1984. Branscomb was appointed by President Lyndon Johnson to
the President's Science Advisory Committee (1964–1968) and by President
Ronald Reagan to the National Productivity Advisory Committee. He
served twice as a director of the AAAS, member of the NAS Council and
of the Governing Board of the National Research Council. He is a former
president of the American Physical Society and a former president of
Sigma Xi. He is a recipient of the Vannevar Bush Award of the National
Science Board and the Rockefeller Public Service Award in 1957.
Branscomb has written extensively on information technology,
comparative science and technology policy, management of innovation and
technology, and science for countering terrorism. He was the co-chair,
with Richard Klausner, of the Academies' study entitled 'Making the
Nation Safer: The Role of Science and Technology in Countering
Terrorism', released on June 25, 2002. Director (emeritus) of the
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Research Associate
at the Scripps Institution for Oceanography and the University of
California, San Diego. Director of Mobil Corp.(1978-1999), RAND Corp.
(1972-1982), MITRE (1987-1999), Lord Corp. (since 1987), C.S. Draper
Laboratories (since 1988), and Arcturus Pharmaceutical Corp.
(1992-1993). Member, JASON
Division, Institute for Defense Analyses from 1962 to 1969. Member of
the Committee on Japan Affairs of the National Academy of Sciences
since 1989. Member of the Advisory Board of the Rand Corporation's
Critical Technologies Institute since 1992. Trustee of the Carnegie
Institution of Washington (1973-1989), Vanderbilt University (since
1980), National Geographic Society (since 1984), Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution (since 1985), and the Commonwealth Fund
(1974-1980). Anno 2005, he is a member of the Advisory Council of the
American Ditchley Foundation. |
| Brenner, Michael |
Unknown. |
21th |
One
Brenner is a young mathematician from Harvard, the other is an older
molecular biologist from the University of Alabama. As a JASON
this person worked on projects like the nuclear deterrent, biotech,
nanotech, and medical imaging technology. He also worked on a project
to see how sonar could be modified so it won't cause problems for
whales. |
| Briggs, R. |
Unknown |
1990's |
This name is mentioned in the 1992 JASON study 'Accelerator Production of Tritium (APT)'. |
| Brodsky, R. |
Unknown |
1990's |
This name is mentioned in the 1992 JASON study 'Accelerator Production of Tritium (APT)'. |
| Caldwell, David O. |
University of California |
60's - 70's |
Professor
of physics. Director University of California Institute for Nuclear and
Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (INPAC), which oversees 8 UC
campuses, Lawrence Livermore, and Los Alamos. |
| Callan, Curtis G., Jr. |
Princeton University |
70's - 21th |
Professor of physics. Chairman of Princeton's Department of Physics. |
| Case, Kenneth M. |
Rockefeller University |
70's - 21th |
Professor
of physics. Relatively unknown, but worked with many of the greats.
Played an important role after WWII in the development of nuclear
energy. |
| Chamberlain, Joseph W. |
University of Chicago Yerkes Observatory; Adler Planetarium; NASA's Lunar Science Institute |
60's - 70's |
Professor
of physics and astronomy Stepped down as head of the Adler Planetarium
in 1991. He was quite an important NASA employee back in the early
1960's. |
| Chervin, Robert |
National Center for Atmospheric Research |
1990's |
Climate
and Global Dynamics Division of the National Center for Atmospheric
Research. Did a lot of research on the world's ocean currents. Involved
in the 1992 JASON study 'CHAMMP' (now Climate Change Prediction Program). |
| Christ, Norman H. |
Columbia University |
60's - 70's |
Professor of physics. Chairman of Columbia's physics department. |
| Collela, Phil |
University of California |
1990's |
Computer scientist at the University of California Berkeley Lab. As a JASON
he worked on a project on how to move climate models from the then
(1992) current generation of supercomputers to the massively parallel
computers of today. Phil was the co-creator of 'Titanium', a JAVA
dialect which made it possible to produce highly detailed simulations
of fluid dynamics in biological systems. |
| Cornwall, John M. |
University
of California; Los Alamos; Defense Threat Reduction Agency; National
Security Advisory Committee of Lawrence Livermore |
80's - 21th |
Professor of Physics at the UCLA and Los Alamos. |
| Dally, William J. |
Stanford; M.I.T. |
90's - 21th |
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He and his group
have developed the system architecture, network architecture,
signaling, routing, and synchronization technology that can be found in
most large parallel computers today. Chairman of the Computer Science
Department at Stanford University where he leads projects on high-speed
signaling, multiprocessor architecture, and graphics architecture. |
| Dashen, Roger F. |
Caltech; Institute for Advanced Study; University of California; U.S. Navy |
60's - 70's |
Professor
of physics. Chairman of the UCSD Department of Physics from 1988 to
1994. Dashen was one of the most influential particle theorists of his
generation and played a leading role in the development of our modern
understanding of symmetries in quantum field theory. Dashen served the
U.S. Navy as a high level advisor in many capacities and was for
several years the chair of the Navy's top level committee on the
security of SSBNs (missile carrying submarines) and other aspects of
anti-submarine warfare. |
| Davis, Russ E. |
University
of California; Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Consortium on the
Ocean's Role in Climate - Abrupt Climate Change Studies |
1980's |
Professor of Chemical Engineering. |
| Despain, Alvin M. |
University of California; Acorn Technologies |
80's - 21th |
Professor
of computer engineering. Professor in the Computer Science and
Electrical Engineering Systems Departments and a staff member of
Information Sciences Institute of USC. Despain is a pioneer in the
study of high performance computer systems. His research group
builds experimental software and hardware systems including compilers,
simulators, design tools, custom VLSI processors, and multiprocessor
systems. |
| Diamond, Patrick H. |
University of California |
90's - 21th |
Professor of Physics. Heads the Plasma Theory group at the University of California together with JASON professor Marshall N. Rosenbluth. |
| Dietz, R.J. |
Unknown |
1990's |
He is mentioned in the 1992 JASON study 'Accelerator Production of Tritium (APT)'. |
| Dimotakis, Paul E. |
Caltech |
90's - 21th |
Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Applied Physics at Caltech. He and his group
have introduced advances in signal processing, high-speed digital
temporal- and image-data acquisition techniques, high-speed CCD imager
design, and image-data processing. He has participated in the
development of pilotless drones, high-power chemical lasers, the
stealth fighter, and contributed to the development of the Space
Shuttle aerodynamics. |
| Drell, Sidney D. |
Stanford; University of California; NRO; CIA; National Security Council; CFR; President's Science Advisory Committee |
60's - 21th |
Professor
of physics. Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute. Drell has been
widely recognized for his contributions in the study of theoretical
physics, particularly elementary particle processes and quantum theory.
Served as a key scientific consultant to the CIA's satellite
reconnaissance program and was instrumental in securing congressional
approval for several NRO (existence acknowledged only in 1992 by the
DoD) special projects. Co-founder of JASON.
chairman of the Panel on Nuclear Weapons Safety of the House Armed
Services Committee, the Technology Review Panel of the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence, and the U.C. President's Council that
oversees Los Alamos, Lawrence Berkeley, and Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratories. He helped establish Stanford's Center for International
Security and Arms Control and was its codirector, 1983-1989. He was
president of the American Physical Society in 1986 and chaired the
Department of Energy's High Energy Physics Panel for nine years. From
1993 to 2001, Drell served as a member of the President's Foreign
Intelligence Advisory Board. From 1993 to 2001, Drell served as a
member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. He has
also been a member of the Commission on Maintaining U.S. Nuclear
Weapons Expertise and the President's Science Advisory Committee and
has consulted for the National Security Council, the U.S. Arms Control
and Disarmament Agency, and the Congressional Office of Technology
Assessment. |
| Dyson, Freeman J. |
Cornell; Princeton University |
60's - 21th |
Born
in England and worked as a civilian scientist for the Royal Air Force
in World War 2. Professor of physics. Cornell University made him a
professor without bothering about his lack of Ph.D. He subsequently
worked on nuclear reactors, solid state physics, ferromagnetism,
astrophysics and biology. From 1957 to 1961 he worked on the Orion
Project, which proposed the possibility of space-flight using nuclear
propulsion: a prototype was demonstrated using conventional explosives,
but a treaty banning the use of nuclear weapons in space caused the
project to be abandoned. The Dyson sphere theory is named after him.
Together with Sidney Drell the longest sitting JASON scholar. |
| Eardley, Douglas M. |
University of California |
80's - 21th |
Professor of Physics at UCSB Institute for Theoretical Physics . |
| Fisher, Frederick H. |
University of California; Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
21th |
Professor
of physics. Died in 2005. Fisher began his career at Scripps
Institution of Oceanography's Marine Physical Laboratory (MPL) in 1955,
conducting Ph.D. thesis research. Worked his whole life at the
institute and became a leader in ocean sound propagation research. At
Scripps, Fisher served as vice chairman of the Scripps Staff Council.
Member of the Governing Board of the American Institute of Physics from
1985-1991. |
| Fitch, Val L. |
Princeton University |
60's - 70's |
Professor
of physics. As a soldier he was sent to Los Alamos to work on the
Manhattan Project. Awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics for a 1964
experiment that proved that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere
to fundamental symmetry principles. Chairman of the Physics Department.
at Princeton. |
| Flatte, Stanley M. |
University of California |
70's - 21th |
Professor of physics and oceanographer at UCSD. |
| Foley, Henry M. |
Columbia University |
60's - 70's |
Professor
of physics at Columbia University. Has been chairman of the physics
department. Member of the advisory panel of International Security and
Commerce - MX missile basing. Deceased. |
| Fortson, E. Norval |
University of Washington |
80's - 21th |
Professor
of Physics. E. Norval Fortson is currently a professor in the
Department of Physics at University of Washington. He is an expert in
laser-optical techniques for atomic physics and uses laser-optical
techniques to tackle issues in experimental atomic physics. Fortson is
best known for his leadership in high-precision tests of such
fundamental physical laws as time-reversal invariance, local Lorentz
invariance and the electroweak theory. His group has repeatedly advanced the precision attainable in such measurements, producing exacting tests of theoretical ideas. |
| Freedman, Michael H. |
University of California; Princeton University; Microsoft |
80's - 90's |
Professor
in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California at San
Diego. Freedman was awarded a Fields Medal in 1986 for his work on the
Poincaré conjecture, a famous 20th century math problem he solved. It
seems that this achievement made him a member of the JASON Group. Theory Group at Microsoft Research. |
| Frieman, Edward A. |
Princeton University |
60's - 80's |
As a diver he participated in the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll. He
received his Ph.D. in physics in 1951. Worked at Princeton on a
classified nuclear weapons program. Met with Albert Einstein, Robert
Oppenheimer, and Edward Teller. Frieman served as associate director of
Princeton's Plasma Physics Laboratory 1964-1979. While at Princeton,
Frieman met Admiral Bobby Ray Inman (who introduced him to the world of
submarines, military strategy, and naval tactics). |
| Garwin, Richard L. |
Columbia
University; PSAC; IBM; Arms Control and Non-proliferation Advisory
Board, Department of State; NRO; CFR; President's Science Advisory
Committee |
60's - 21th |
Professor
of physics at Columbia University. Member of the IBM Research Division.
Chairman of the Arms Control and Nonproliferation Advisory Board of the
Department of State from 1994 to 2001. He is the Director in Science
and Technology of the Council on Foreign Relations. Garwin served on
the President's Science Advisory Committee, and chaired its panels on
Military Aircraft, Anti-submarine and Naval Warfare. He established
standards and found solutions for electromechanical design of modern
spacecraft. As a champion of Electro-Optical Imaging, he helped Henry
Kissinger understand its role for the national defense of the United
States. Mindjustice.org: "Garwin kindly replied to email questions
in January, 2005 and said he has evaluated electromagnetic weapons for
the Defense Department several times but “there are always
‘compartments’ to which even people with high-level security clearances
do not have access.” Garwin concluded, “...In my analyses of the effect
of radiowaves on people, I have never found any significant effect
other than heating of the tissues. ...So I don't think there is much in
the threat of electromagnetic signals to control or disorient people by
the effect on the human brain." According to the CFR "Garwin
is an internationally renowned physicist with expertise in intelligence
and on nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and defenses." During
the 1968 Tet-offensive Garwin, Kendall, and two other Pentagon
scientists were sent to Vietnam to see how new technology might turn
the tables again, especially in Khe Sanh. It is likely they had to give
their opinion on the use of tactical nuclear weapons, since rumors had
surfaced that the U.S. was preparing to use them. |
| Gell-Mann, Murray |
Institute for Advanced Study; University of Chicago; University of California; Santa Fe Institute; CFR; WCS; Royal Society |
60's - 80's |
Professor of physics. In 1952 Gell-Mann joined the Institute for
Nuclear Studies at the University of Chicago before he went to Caltech.
The most well known part of Gell-Mann's work was his theory of
'quarks', the fundamental particles that make up the protons and
neutrons of ordinary matter. Gell-Mann and others further developed his
ideas to build the powerful 'standard model' of particle physics, which
to this day reigns as our best theory of the nature of matter. Received
the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1969 for his work pertaining to the
classification of subatomic particles and their interactions. In June
1972 Gell-Man was chased out of the College de France by a group
of young French scientists who were outraged at his contributions to
the Vietnam War. When he was questioned by the audiece about his work
for JASON his response was, "I am not free to answer."
Co-Chairman of the Science Board of the Santa Fe Institute. Member of
the Council on Foreign Relations. Gell-Mann is concerned with global
policy matters such as population growth, conservation and
biodiversity, sustainable economic development, and geopolitical
stability. Member of the Royal Society of London. Trustee of the World
Conservation Society together with the Astors, Rockefellers, Phipps,
Schiffs, and other elite families. In February 2006, Gell-Mann attended
The Amazing Meeting in Las Vegas, a benefit for the James Randi
Educational Foundation. Phil Plait (the "bad astronomer" and nemesis of
Richard Hoagland) also spoke at the conference. |
| Gifford, David K. |
M.I.T.; Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory |
21th |
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT. Head of the Computational Genomics Group at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). |
| Glaser, Donald A. |
University of Michigan; University of California; Lawrence Radiation Laboratory; Brookhaven National Laboratory in NY |
60's - 70's |
Professor
of physics and mathematics. Worked on particle and nuclear physics in
different labs. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1960. |
| Goldberger, Marvin L. |
University of California; Caltech; CFR |
60's - 80's |
Professor of Physics. In 1959 Goldberger, along with Sam Treiman (JASON
scientist) established the Goldberger-Treiman relations, which gave a
quantitative connection between the strong and weak interaction
properties of the proton and neutron. From 1978-1987 he served as the
president of CalTech where he stressed undergraduate education, and
oversaw the revision of teaching standards, restructuring of
curriculum, and the renovation of the undergraduate dorms. Goldberger
was the cochairman of the National Research Council and a member of the
Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation International Advisory
Board. He has authored works such as 'Collision Theory' and was the
editor of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States: 'Continuity
and Change' and 'Verification: Monitoring Disarmament' (Pugwash
Monograph). Trustee (emeritus) of the Aspen Institute. |
| Gomer, Robert |
University of Chicago; James Franck Institute; PSAC; Directorate of
Physical Sciences; Air Force Office of Scientific Research;
Universities Space Research Association |
60's - 70's |
Professor
of chemistry at the University of Chicago. He served on numerous
scientific committees, including the President's Science Advisory
Committee (1961-1965) and the Advisory Committee for the Directorate of
Physical Sciences, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (1961-1975),
and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Universities Space
Research Association (1976-1978). From 1977 to 1983 he served as
director of the James Franck Institute. |
| Goodman, Jeremy |
Princeton University |
90's - 21th |
Professor
of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton. His research interests
Astrophysical Hydrodynamics, Stellar Dynamics, Interstellar
Scintillation, and Gamma-Ray Bursts. |
| Gregg, Michael C. |
University of Washington |
80's - 21th |
Professor
of Oceanography. His longterm objectives are to understand how the
ocean mixes and to develop parameterizations of mixing rates that can
be used in numerical models that cannot resolve mixing processes. |
| Grober, Robert |
University of Maryland |
21th |
Professor of Physics. His 'Grober Lab' has a main focus on
characterization of semiconductor nanostructures, characterization of
photoacids in chemically amplified photoresist, and fluorescence
imaging in biomedical engineering. |
| Hammer, David A. |
Cornell; University of California; Naval Research Laboratory; University of Maryland; American Physical Society |
80's - 21th |
J.
Carlton Ward Professor of Nuclear Energy Engineering and Professor of
Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has been on the Cornell faculty
since 1977. Hammer worked at the Naval Research Laboratory in
1969-1976, was a Visiting Associate Professor (part time) at the
University of Maryland in 1973-1976, and was an Associate Professor at
UCLA in 1977; in 1983-84 and 1991, he was a Visiting Senior Fellow at
Imperial College, London. He has been a consultant to several
corporations and government laboratories. e holds a patent on the
x-pinch x-ray source for application to lithography in microelectronics
manufacturing. His research is supported by DOE and Sandia National
Laboratories, Albuquerque. He is the Chair-Elect of the Division of
Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society in 2003, and will be
the Chair of the division in 2004. |
| Happer, William |
Princeton
University; Department of Energy; University Research Board; MITRE;
Marshall Institute; Magnetic Imaging Technologies Incorporated |
80's - 90's |
Professor
in the Department of Physics at Princeton University, is a specialist
in modern optics, optical and radiofrequency spectroscopy of atoms and
molecules, and spin-polarized atoms and nuclei. From 1991 to 1993, he
served as Director of Energy Research in the Department of Energy and
on his return to Princeton, he was named Eugene Higgins Professor of
Physics and Chair of the University Research Board. Dr. Happer has
maintained an interest in applied as well as basic science and he has
served as a consultant to numerous firms, charitable foundations and
government agencies. From 1987 to 1990 he served as chairman of the
Steering Committee of JASON, a group
of scientists and engineers who advised the Federal Government on
matters of defense and other technical issues. Trustee of the MITRE
Corporation, the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, and the Marshall
Institute. He was a co-founder in 1994 of Magnetic Imaging Technologies
Incorporated (MITI), a small company specializing in the use of laser
polarized noble gases for magnetic resonance imaging. Has been a
consultant to many companies. |
| Harvey, J. |
Unknown |
1990's |
Named in the 1991 JASON study 'U.S. Special Operations Command'. He is mentioned in the 1992 JASON studies 'Continuum Approaches for Describing Solid-Liquid Flow' and 'Drag Reduction by Polymer Additives'. |
| Henderson, Robert |
Unknown |
90's - 21th |
Director of JASON. |
| Horowitz, Paul |
Harvard University |
80's - 90's |
Professor of Physics & Professor of Electrical Engineering. Paul Horowitz’s research group
is currently focused on several problems in experimental astrophysics –
the search for intentional microwave transmissions from
extraterrestrial intelligent civilizations (SETI), a search for highly
redshifted neutral hydrogen condensations (with colleagues at MIT), and
optical interferometry (with the IOTA collaboration). |
| Hwa, Terence |
University of California |
21th |
Professor
at the Physics Department of the University of California at San Diego.
His lab is focused on the area of quantitative and systemic biology.
This is an emerging area of research at the interface of biology,
engineering, biochemistry, and statistical physics. In this post-genome
era, it is clear that the complexity of a biological organism resides
not merely in the intricacies of its components (e.g., proteins), but
more importantly in the array of interactions these components can have
with each other. |
| Jeanloz, Raymond |
University of California |
90's - 21th |
Raymond Jeanloz is professor of earth and planetary science and of
astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, where his group studies the nature and evolution of planetary interiors, as well as the properties of materials at high pressures. |
| Joyce, Gerald F. |
University of California; Scripps Research Institute |
90's - 21th |
Professor
at the Departments of Chemistry and Molecular Biology at the Scripps
Research Institute. Investigates Darwinian evolution in RNA and DNA
molecules. |
| Kammerdiener, John |
University of California; Los Alamos |
1990's |
Considered
one of the principal designers of the US nuclear arsenal. Kammerdiener
of Los Alamos is a major designer of the 'secondaries' of thermonuclear
weapons. He helped JASON with a 1995 study involving the testing of nuclear weapons without actually detonating one. |
| Katz, Jonathan I. |
Washington University |
80's - 21th |
Professor of physics at Washington University. Katz's work centers on
gamma-ray bursts. He also works on a number of diverse topics in
applied physics, biophysics and materials science. |
| Keller, Joseph B. |
Columbia University; Stanford |
60's - 70's |
Professor
(emeritus) of Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering at Stanford
University Department of Mathematics. Columbia University Research
Assistant, 1944-1945. Stanford visiting professor of Mathematics
1969-1970 & 1976-1978. Professor of Mathematics and Mechanical
Engineering since 1978. |
| Kendall, Henry W. |
M.I.T.; Union of Corcerned Scientists |
60's - 70's |
A
professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kendall won the
1990 Nobel Prize in Physics with Jerome Friedman and Richard Taylor for
a series of experiments (1967–1973) that showed that the fundamental
particles of matter are not protons and neutrons, but smaller particles
known as quarks (see elementary particles). As the founder and chair of
the Union of Concerned Scientists, Kendall was openly critical in the
1980s of the Strategic Defense Initiative, or 'Star Wars' antimissile
project. During the 1968 Tet-offensive Garwin, Kendall, and two other
Pentagon scientists were sent to Vietnam to see how new technology
might turn the tables again, especially in Khe Sanh. It is likely they
had to give their opinion on the use of tactical nuclear weapons, since
rumors had surfaced that the U.S. was preparing to use them. |
| Kimble, H. Jeff |
University of California |
1990's |
Professor of physics at Caltech. Principal Investigator of the Caltech Quantum Optics group. His group successfully proved the concept of 'quantum teleportation'. |
| Kistiakowsky, George |
University of California; Los Alamos |
60's - 70's |
Chemistry
professor who participated in the Manhattan Project. Born in Kiev,
Ukraine, he attended private schools in Kiev and Moscow until the
Russian Revolution broke out in 1917. He was imprisoned by the
Bolsheviks but later escaped to Germany, where he received his P.H.D in
1925. He joined the Manhattan Project in 1944, replacing Seth
Neddermeyer as head of the implosion department. Under his leadership
came the complex explosive lenses needed to compress the plutonium
sphere uniformly to achieve critical mass. Died in 1982. |
| Koonin, Steven E. |
University of California; DOD; Argonne National Laboratory; CFR; British Petroleum |
90's - 21th |
Steven
Koonin joined the Caltech faculty in 1975, became full professor in
1981, serving as chairman of the Faculty from 1989-1991. Professor
Koonin held the position of provost (president) of Caltech from 1995 to
2004. Koonin is a member of the Council for Foreign Relations and has
served on a number of advisory committees for the National Science
Foundation, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Defense and
its various national laboratories. He is a fellow of the American
Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of
Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research
interests include theoretical nuclear, many-body, and computational
physics, nuclear astrophysics, and global environmental science. He is
a member of the Board of Governors of Argonne National Laboratory.
Koonin is currently on a leave of absence from his faculty position as
professor of theoretical physics to serve as Chief Scientist of BP in
London. |
Kroll, Norman M. |
University of California |
60's - 70's |
Seen as a brilliant pioneer in Quantum Physics. He was a founding member of
the UCSD Physics department at which he still is a research professor.
His interests and research work have dealt with the application of
theoretical methods to a variety of areas in physics. These include
quantum electrodynamics, quantum field theory, nuclear physics,
nonlinear optics, plasma physics, free electron lasers, particle
detectors and particle accelerators. |
| Lederberg, Joshua |
Stanford; Yale; Rockefeller University; CFR; NASA |
70's - 80's |
An American molecular biologist who is known for his work in genetics,
artificial intelligence, and space exploration. In 1946 Lederberg and
Edward Tatum announced that they had discovered genetic recombination
in bacteria. Several years later Lederberg discovered that viruses
called bacteriophages could transfer genetic material from one
bacterium to another, a phenomenon he called transduction. Won the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958. In addition to his
contributions to biology, Lederberg did extensive research in
artificial intelligence. This included work in the NASA experimental
programs seeking life on Mars and the chemistry expert system DENDRAL.
President of the Rockefeller University 1978-1990. His protege, Edward
Tatum, with whom he had won the Nobel Prize in 1958, had already joined
the staff of Rockefeller University in 1957. At the time it was called
the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. After Lederberg stepped
down as president he became professor-emeritus of molecular genetics
and informatics at Rockefeller University. Throughout his career,
Lederberg was active as a scientific advisor to the U.S. government.
Starting in 1950, he has been a member of various panels of the
President's Science Advisory Committee. In 1979, he became a member of
the U.S. Defense Science Board and the chairman of President Jimmy
Carter's President's Cancer Panel. In 1994, he headed the Defense
Science Board Task Force on Persian Gulf War Health Effects, which
investigated Gulf War Syndrome. It concluded that there was no evidence
of a 'special Gulf War Syndrome' and no evidence of biochemical
exposures. In April 1998, Lederberg, met with Bill Clinton, Dr. Thomas
Monath (vice-president OraVax Corporation), Jerry Hauer (Director New
York's Emergency Management), William C. Patrick III, and John Deutsch
(CIA Director), to negotiate the first of several multimillion dollar
anthrax, smallpox, and West Nile virus vaccine contracts. Lederberg, as
chairman, was the only JASON on the GWS panel. |
| Lederman, Leon M. |
Columbia University; University of Chicago |
60's - 70's |
Internationally
renowned high-energy physicist. Won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988.
Professor Lederman was the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at
Columbia from 1972 to 1979 and served as Director of Nevis Laboratories
in Irvington, Columbia's center for experimental research in
high-energy physics, from 1962 to 1979. Director (emeritus) of Fermi
National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois (1979-1989) and
holds an appointment as Pritzker Professor of Science at Illinois
Institute of Technology, Chicago. Dr. Lederman served as Chairman of
the State of Illinois Governor's Science Advisory Committee. In 1990 he
was elected President of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science, the largest scientific organization in the U.S. |
| Leith, C. |
Unknown |
1990's |
He is mentioned in the 1992 JASON
study 'CHAMMP Review' about a new DOE program designed to move climate
models from the current generation of supercomputers to massively
parallel computers of the future (like JASON Norman Christ started to work on). |
| Lelevier, Robert E. |
RAND |
70's - 21th |
Received
the Ph.D. degree in. theoretical physics in 1952 from the UCLA. 1997
email address was [email protected]. Already named as a member of RAND
in 1972. |
| Levine, Herbert |
University of California |
90's - 21th |
Professor
of physics. His interest is in the physics of nonequilibrium processes,
especially in the emergence of spatial patterns in extended systems.
Within this framework, he works on issues arising in condensed matter
physics, chemical physics and most recently biophysics. |
| Lewis, Harold W. |
University of California |
60's - 70's |
Professor of Physics at U.S. Santa Barbara. Was chairman of the Jason group in 1972. |
| Lewis, Nathan S. |
University of California |
90's - 21th |
Professor of Chemistry at Caltech. The research interests of Professor Lewis and his group
deal with light-induced electron transfer reactions, both at surfaces
and in transition metal complexes. Another major area of research in
Professor Lewis' group involves novel uses of conducting organic polymers. |
| Long, Darrell D. E. |
University of California |
21th |
Dr.
Darrell D. E. Long is Professor of Computer Science and Kumar Malavalli
Endowed Professor of Storage Systems Research at the University of
California, Santa Cruz, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate
Studies and Director of the Storage Systems Research Center in the Jack
Baskin School of Engineering. He has broad research interests in the
area of computing systems including operating systems, distributed
systems, high performance storage systems, fault tolerance, performance
evaluation and mobile computing. His research is supported by the
National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the Naval
Research Laboratory, the Department of Energy (Lawrence Livermore, Los
Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories), IBM, HP, and Microsoft. |
| MacDonald, Gordon J.F. |
University of California; Dartmouth College; President's Council of Environmental Quality; NASA; CFR |
70's - 90's |
MacDonald is director of the environmental studies program at Dartmouth
College in Hanover, N.H. Formerly, he was a consultant to the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration and a professor of geophysics at
UCLA. In 1966, MacDonald was a member of the President's Science
Advisory Committee and later a member of the President's Council on
Environmental Quality. One of MacDonald's predictions in the 1970's was
that by 2018 the weather will be so controllable that droughts and
storms could be used as weapons. He has published papers on this
subject. According to Nexus Magazine, the following statement was made
more than 25 years ago in a book which Brzezinski wrote while a
professor at Columbia University: "Political strategists are
tempted to exploit research on the brain and human behaviour.
Geophysicist Gordon J. F. MacDonald-specialist in problems of
warfare-says accurately-timed, artificially-excited electronic strokes
'could lead to a pattern of oscillations that produce relatively high
power levels over certain regions of the Earth... In this way, one
could develop a system that would seriously impair the brain
performance of very large populations in selected regions over an
extended period..." |
| Max, Claire E. |
University of California |
80's - 21th |
Founding
director of Livermore Branch, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary
Physics 1984-1993. Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Professor
and astronomer at the University of California since 2001. Director at
the Center for Adaptive Optics since 2004. |
| McEuen, Paul L. |
University of California; Cornell University |
21th |
Professor
of physics. Research areas: The science and technology of
nanostructures, particularly carbon-based systems such as nanotubes and
C60 molecules; novel fabrication techniques at the nanometer scale;
scanned probe microscopy of nanostructures; assembly and measurement of
chemical and biological nanostructures. |
| Meiron, Dan |
University of California |
21th |
Professor of applied mathematics at Caltech. As a JASON involved with testing the nuclear stockpile without actually detonating one. |
| Montroll, Elliott |
University of Maryland; University of Rochester; IBM |
60's - 70's |
Elliott Montroll was a research professor at the University of Maryland
Institute of Fluid Dynamics and Applied Mathematics from 1951 to 1960.
He also held many government positions and was the founding editor of
the Journal of Mathematical Physics. His papers include lecture notes
and research materials for the publication of articles on various
aspects of physics and chemistry. Died in 1983. |
| Muller, Richard A. |
University of California; Lawrence Livermore; M.I.T. |
70's - 21th |
Professor
of Physics who works at the University of California, Berkeley and
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His work has included attempting
to understand the ice ages, dynamics at the core-mantle boundary,
patterns of extinction and biodiversity through time, and the processes
associated with impact cratering. One of his most well known proposals
is the Nemesis hypothesis. Today, Dr. Muller teaches "Physics for
Future Presidents" [1] which is a course designed to teach the concepts
of physics relevant to important policy decisions such as nuclear
proliferation, climate change, space travel, and energy policy. For
several years, he was a monthly columnist with MIT's Technology Review. |
| Munk, Walter H. |
University of California |
70's - 21th |
Professor
of geophysics. Elected to NAS in 1956. For the last 20 years he has
worked on the development of 'Ocean Acoustic Tomography' as a technique
of mapping ocean temperature. This includes 'Acoustic Thermometry of
Ocean Climate' (ATOC) to monitor ocean variability on the climate
scale. Lately he has worked on the dissipation of tidal energy and its
role in ocean mixing. |
| Nelson, David R. |
Harvard University |
80's - 21th |
Professor
of Physics at Harvard University's Department of Physics. David
Nelson’s research focuses on collective effects in the physics and
chemistry of condensed matter. He has been interested, in particular,
in the interplay between fluctuations, geometry and statistical
mechanics. In collaboration with his Harvard colleague, Bertrand I.
Halperin, he is responsible for a theory of dislocation-mediated
melting in two dimensions. |
| Nierenberg, William A. |
University of California; Scripps Institution of Oceanography; SEPP; NATO; State Department; CFR |
70's - 90's |
Director
of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography 1965 through 1986. Member of
the Board of Science Advisors at Science and Environmental Policy
Project (SEPP). Science advisor to NATO and the U.S. State Department.
He served on the advisory board of the Electric Power Research
Institute. Director of the George C. Marshall Institute. Chairman of
the first National Academy of Sciences study on the greenhouse effect,
possible sea-level rises, and climate change, which was conducted in
the early part of the eighties (titled: 'Changing Climate'). Frequent
visitor of New York and well known at the Rockefeller University.
According to a September 28, 2000 Memorial Tribute posted on the
Rockefeller University website, Detlev Bronk, president of the
Rockefeller University, member of the Pilgrims Society, and an alledged
member of the first MJ-12 group, had been a patron of Nierenberg's career. Nierenberg died in 2000. |
| Novick, (Melvin) Robert |
Unknown |
80's - 90's |
Already named a member of JASON in 1987. He is mentioned in the 1996 JASON study 'Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) Review'. |
| Panofsky, Wolfgang K.H. |
University of California; Stanford; Princeton University; PSAC; CFR |
60's - 90's |
Involved
in different projects at the UC, including the Manhattan Project
1942-1951. Professor of Physics at Stanford University since 1951 where
he worked at the High Energy Physics Laboratory and SLAC. On the
Advisory Council of the Department of Physics of Princeton University
1959-1961. Consultant of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
1959-1980. President's Science Advisory Committee 1960-1964. Steering
committee of JASON at the Institute for Defense Analyses 1965-1973 (officially still a member of JASON
today). On the Advisory Committees of Brookhaven National Laboratory,
Physics Dept. of the University of Rochester, and the Physics,
Mathematics & Astronomy Deptartments of Caltech. Member of Nuclear
Energy Policy Study of the Ford Foundation 1977-1978. General Advisory
Committee to the President 1978-1980. Chairman of the Committee on
International Security and Arms Control 1985-1993 (member since 1981).
Chairman of the Board of Overseers-SSC of the Universities Research
Association. |
| Perkins, Francis W., Jr. |
Princeton University |
70's - 21th |
Principal research physicist at Princeton's plasma physics lab. Retired in 2005 after 38 years of service. |
| Peterson, Allen M. |
Stanford |
70's - 90's |
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Senior Scientific Advisor. Died in 1994. |
| Peurifoy, Robert |
Sandia National Laboratories |
1990's |
Former vice president of Sandia National Laboratory. In 2003 he said (like most other JASON's): "If
you can find somebody in a uniform in the Defense Department who can
talk about new need for nuclear bunker busters without laughing, I’ll
buy him a cup of coffee. It’s outlandish. It’s stupid. It is an effort
to maintain a payroll at the weapons labs." Peurifoy was in
charge there of all of the non-physics aspects of stockpile nuclear
weapons-- especially the Arming, Firing, and Fuzing, as well as
packaging, and the like. Drell and Peurifoy published an authoritative
article on stockpile maintenance. Robert Peurifoy was a giant in the
field of construction engineering and authored several classic books
during his lifetime. He helped JASON in 1995 and 1999 when they were conducting studies about the nuclear weapons arsenal. |
| Prentiss, Mara |
M.I.T. |
90's - 21th |
Professor of physics. Prentiss is head of the Consortium for Light Force Dynamics, through which the group
collaborates with NIST at Gaithersburg, Colorado State University, and
the Harvard Chemistry Department. Other atom optics research has
included theoretical and experimental work on focusing and
beamsplitting techniques, including research with the Westervelt (also
a JASON) group using magnetic fields to control atomic motion. |
| Press, William H. |
Princeton
University; Harvard University; University of California; Los Alamos;
U.S. Defense Science Board; Chief of Naval Operations' Executive Panel;
IDA |
80's - 90's |
Professor
of Astronomy and of Physics at Harvard University since 1976. Came to
Los Alamos in 1998. Earlier, Press was Assistant Professor of Physics
at Princeton University, and Richard Chace Tolman Research Fellow in
Theoretical Physics at Caltech, where he received his Ph.D. in physics
in 1972. Press, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, has
published more than 140 papers in the areas of theoretical
astrophysics, cosmology, and computational algorithms. Past co-Chair of
the Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications
(CPSMA) of the National Research Council (NRC); a past member of the
NRC's Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, the Astronomy and
Astrophysics Survey Committee, the Chief of Naval Operations' Executive
Panel, the U.S. Defense Science Board, and a variety of other boards
and committees. Trustee of the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) and
serves on its Executive Committee. In 2000, he became a founding member
of the Computer and Information Sciences Section of the National
Academy of Sciences, and he serves as section liason to the National
Research Council. |
| Prince, T. |
Unknown |
1990's |
In 1997 he was a member of the JASON study 'Human Genome Project'. |
| Richter, Burton |
Stanford |
70's - 80's |
Worked
at the Stanford High Energy Physics Laboratory and Linear Accelerator
Center from 1956 to 1999. Director at Varian Medical Systems, Litel
Instruments Inc., AREVA Enterprises Inc. , and the International
Council for Science. Member of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board.
President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics
(IUPAP) 1999-2002. Chairman of the Board on Physics and Astronomy since
2003. Board on Physics and Astronomy. |
| Ride, S. |
Unknown |
1990's |
This person could have been the former astronaut / Stanford & UCSD physicist Sally Ride. Mentioned in the 1990 JASON study 'Verification Technology: Unclassified Version'. |
| Rosenbluth, Marshall N. |
Stanford; Princeton University; University of Texas; University of California |
70's - 21th |
Professor
of Physics. Instructor at Stanford University (1949-1950), where he
derived the elastic scattering cross section of electron off protons.
This famous 'Rosenbluth formula' was the basis of the analysis used by
Robert Hofstadter in his Nobel prize-winning experimental
investigation. Joined Los Alamos Laboratory as a staff member from
1950-1956 to participate in the nation's weapons program where he
became a leading member of the team that developed the hydrogen bomb.
During his career in Los Alamos, he began his life-long quest to
develop controlled fusion into a viable energy source. Became a
professor at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Study in 1967. In
1980, Marshall Rosenbluth moved to The University of Texas at Austin,
as professor and director of the newly-formed Institute of Fusion
Studies (IFS). Headed the Plasma Theory group at the University of California together with JASON professor Patrick Diamond. Deceased in 2003. He was often referred to as the 'pope of plasma physics'. |
| Rothaus, Oscar S. |
NSA; Cornell; Princeton University; University of California |
80's - 90's |
Professor
of mathematics. Mathematician for the National Security Agency in
Washington, DC 1953-1960. Deputy Director of the Institute for Defense
Analyses in Princeton 1960-1965. Professor at the Mathematics
Department of Cornell University 1966-2003. Chairman of the Mathematics
Department 1973-1976. Oscar was an outstanding contributor to the areas
of several complex variables and Sobolev inequalities. |
| Ruderman, Malvin A. |
Columbia University |
70's - 21th |
Professor
of physics and theoretical astrophysics at Columbia University. He
works mainly on problems associated with collapsed objects in
astrophysics, especially neutron stars. |
| Sack, Seymour |
University of California; Lawrence Livermore |
1990's |
One
of Lawrence Livermore's key nuclear weapons designers. He played a role
in the design of the egg-shaped primaries for the warheads of the MX,
Poseidon, Minuteman, and Trident missiles. |
| Sands, Matthew |
University of California; Stanford |
60's - 70's |
Professor
of physics. Sands was an active faculty member at UC Santa Cruz from
1969 to 1985 and continued his research activities until 1994. After
retiring from UCSC, Sands worked as a consultant for SLAC and also as a
computer consultant for Bay View Elementary School in Santa Cruz. |
| Schwitters, Roy F. |
Stanford; Harvard University; University of Texas |
90's - 21th |
Professor
of physics. Associate and assistant professor at Stanford Linear
Accelerator Center 1971-1979. Professor of Physics at Harvard
University 1979-1990. Director at the Superconducting Super Collider
Laboratory 1989-1993. Present S.W. Richardson Regents Professor of
Physics at the University of Texas since 1990. Chairman of the
Department of Physics at the University of Texas since 2001. |
| Slichter, Charles P. |
University of Illinois |
60's - 70's |
Professor
of physics. Internationally recognized in condensed matter physics,
became a member of the Illinois physics faculty in 1949. He is one of
the world's top research scientists in the area of magnetic resonance
and has been a leading innovator in applications of resonance
techniques to understanding the structure of matter. |
| Sorenson, Harold W. |
University of California; Air Force; DIA; Orincon Corporation International (subsidiary of Lockheed Martin); MITRE |
1980's |
A founding faculty member of UCSD and a long-time scientific and
technology advisor to the United States defense and intelligence
communities. Co-founder of Orincon, the systems integration company. He
served as chief scientist of the U.S. Air Force from 1985 to 1988 and
arrived at MITRE in 1989, remaining until 2001. He chaired the Air
Force Scientific Advisory Board from 1990 to 1993 and was a member of
the Defense Intelligence Association Scientific Advisory Board from
1992 to 1986. |
| Spiess, Fred N. |
University of California; Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Navel Research Advisory
Committee |
1980's |
Professor of physics. Professor of Oceanography at the Marine Physical
Laboratory of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Joined the
Marine Physical Laboratory at Scripps in 1952 and began his research
career in underwater acoustics and sonar systems. Over the years, this
broadened into activity in ocean engineering; design of FLIP, deeply
towed instrument systems, ODP wireline re-entry, seafloor geodetic
techniques, and related seagoing marine geophysics and graduate student
education. From 1980-1988, Dr. Spiess was director of the University of
California Institute of Marine Resources, the agency that administered
the California Sea Grant Program at the time. |
| Stearns, Tim |
Stanford University |
21th |
Associate
Professor of Biological Sciences and Genetics at Stanford University
School of Medicine. Tim Stearns’s research focuses on cell biology,
particularly the microtubule cytoskeleton, a dynamic network of
filaments and associated motors and organizing factors found in all
eukaryotic cells. He will create a program that will train
undergraduates to be the next generation of leaders in biological
research through close interaction with faculty members in course work, research, and advising. |
| Steinhardt, Paul J. |
Princeton University |
80's - 90's |
Professor
of physics. Paul J. Steinhardt is the Albert Einstein Professor in
Science at Princeton University, a member of the faculty in the
Department of Physics and an associate faculty member in the Department
of Astrophysical Sciences. Steinhardt is a theorist whose research
spans problems in particle physics, astrophysics, cosmology and
condensed matter physics. He is one of the architects of the
'inflationary model' of the universe, an important modification of the
standard big bang picture which explains the homogeneity and geometry
of the universe and the origin of the fluctuations that seeded the
formation of galaxies and large-scale structure. He introduced the
concepts of 'quintessence,' a dynamical form of dark energy that may
account for the recently discovered cosmic acceleration. |
| Stubbs, Christopher |
Harvard University |
21th |
Professor of Physics at Harvard. Christopher Stubbs is an experimental
physicist working at the interface between particle physics, cosmology
and gravitation. His interests include experimental tests of the
foundations of gravitational physics, searches for dark matter, and
observational cosmology. He is one of the principal investigators on an
ambitious survey that will use hundreds of supernovae to map out the
recent expansion history of the Universe. |
| Sullivan, Jeremiah D. |
Stanford; U.S. government; NATO |
80's - 21th |
Professor of physics. He spent his postdoctoral years as a research associate in the theoretical physics group
at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), then moved to
Illinois, beginning as an acting assistant professor and advancing
rapidly through the professorial ranks. In the early years of his
career, Sullivan made significant contributions to particle physics,
particularly to electromagnetic interactions and to hadron-hadron
processes at high energy. In 1974, Sullivan began what ultimately
developed into his major research direction when he accepted an
invitation to become a member of JASON, a group
of experts who provide technical analyses to the U.S. government on
scientific issues relevant to national security. Every summer since
1974, he has spent six weeks working with the JASON group and has contributed significantly to its success. In addition to his direct JASON
work, Professor Sullivan has also leant his expertise to a number of
other important studies and reviews that have played key roles in the
evolution of U.S. defense policy over the past twenty years. In 2001,
he was selected by the Secretary of Energy to lead the Nuclear
Nonproliferation Subcommittee of the U.S. National Nuclear Security
Administration Advisory Committee and received a four-year appointment
to the Advisory Panel of the security-related Civil Science and
Technology Sub-Programme of the NATO Science Committee. |
| Tonry, John L. |
Harvard University; University of California; M.I.T.; University of Hawaii |
21th |
Professor of physics who did research at Harvard, Caltech, MIT, and now at the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy. |
| Townes, Charles H. |
University of California; Columbia University; Bell Labs; NASA; General Motors; PSAC; State Department; IDA |
60's - 70's |
Professor
of physics and astronomy. Born in 1915. B.A. and a B.S. from Furman
University. M.A. from Duke University in 1937. Ph.D. in physics from
Caltech in 1939. Member of the technical staff of Bell Telephone
Laboratories from 1933 to 1947. Remains a consultant to Bell Labs in
the decades ahead. Worked extensively during World War II in designing
radar bombing systems and has a number of patents in related
technology. Executive director of the Columbia Radiation Laboratory
1950-1952 and chairman of the Physics Department 1952-1955. Builds the
first maser (early version of laser, producing microwave rather than
optical radiation) with J. P. Gordon and H. J. Zeiger at Columbia in
1953. Vice president and director of research of the Institute for
Defense Analyses 1959-1961. Helped set up IDA and JASON. Nobel Prize in
Physics 1964. Provost and Professor of Physics at MIT 1961-1966. Became
professor at the University of California in 1966. Chairman NASA
Science Advisory Committee for the Apollo lunar landing program
1966-1970. Chairman of the Defense Department’s Committee on the MX
missile. First chairman of the General Motors Science Advisory
Committee, founded in 1971. Director General Motors since 1974.
Together with Laurance S. Rockefeller and William O. Baker (president
Bell Labs at the time; NSA affiliated), Townes sat on the initial board
of the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation, founded in 1978. In
his 1995 book 'Making Waves', Pg. 199: "The proposed position for me was Vice President and
Director of Research for the Institute for Defense Analysis. The
Institute was a nonprofit "think-tank with a very important role, run
by five or six prominent universities on the East Coast, Columbia
University being one of them. It managed what was known as the Weapons
Systems Evaluation Group. We had to pick the right people who would be
responsible for analyzing how and whether a weapon worked and its
effectiveness. We also advised a new organization, the Advanced
Research Projects Agency, whose aim was to consider what could be done
in space, and to help initiate new ideas and technologies of importance
to national security. We also advised the State Department on arms
control problems." |
| Treiman, Sam B. |
Princeton University |
80's - 90's |
Professor
of physics. Considered one of the founders of modern particle physics
and his imprint can be found all over the subject. |
| Vesecky, John F. |
University of Michigan; University of California |
80's - 21th |
Professor of Electrical Engineering. John Vesecky's technical interests
are in the areas of remote sensing of the ocean surface; ocean current
measuring radar for coastal ecology and oceanography, radar and radar
systems, especially synthetic aperture radar (SAR); wave scattering;
remote sensing and public health. Prior to joining the faculty at UCSC
he was a Professor of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences at the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. |
| Watson, Kenneth M. |
University of California |
60's - 90's |
Professor
of physics and an expert in plasma physics and scattering theory. One
of the co-founders of JASON in 1959. At a faculty meeting during the
time of the Cambodian invasion (during the Vietnam war - 1970) Watson
was heard to comment, "Why is everyone getting so upset about such a little war?" Became
a director of the Marine Physical Laboratory (MPL) in 1981, which was
largely funded by the Navy. Always suspected to have been heavily
involved with the military industrial complex. |
| Weinberg, Steven |
Columbia University; University of California; M.I.T.; Harvard; University of Texas; CFR |
60's - 70's |
Professor of Physics. His research has spanned a broad range of topics
in quantum field theory, elementary particle physics, and cosmology,
and has been honored with numerous awards, including the Nobel Prize in
Physics. |
| Weinberger, Peter J. |
University of Michigan; Bell Labs; Google |
90's - 21th |
Professor
of mathematics. A computer scientist who worked at AT&T Bell Labs
and contributed to the design of the pioneering AWK programming
language. Became head of the Computer Science Research Center at Bell
Labs. Peter currently works for Google. |
| Westervelt, Robert M. |
Harvard University |
90's - 21th |
Robert
Westervelt is Director of the NSF-funded Nanoscale Science and
Engineering Center based at Harvard University. Westervelt's group
studies the quantum behavior of electrons inside nanoscale structures. |
| Wheeler, John A. |
Princeton University; University of Texas |
60's - 70's |
Professor
of physics. In 1939, he worked with Niels Bohr and co-authored an
article on nuclear fission in terms of quantum physics, which was the
first of its time. He was the leader of the U.S. team that sought to
create the first hydrogen bomb (after the Manhattan Project). Stood at
the bases of the Black Hole theory. He joined the faculty at Princeton
in 1938, and after 1976 was director of the Center for Theoretical
Physics at the Univ. of Texas until he retired (1986). |
| Wilkening, Dean |
RAND Corporation; University of California; Stanford CISAC |
1990's |
After receiving his PhD in physics from Harvard University in 1982, he
spent two years studying defense policy on a Ford Foundation fellowship
at the Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University. In 1983 he joined the staff of the RAND
Corporation, where he held several management positions as a senior
researcher in the Engineering and Applied Sciences and International
Policy departments. In addition, from 1985-1994 Wilkening taught
courses on nuclear weapons policy at the University of California, Los
Angeles. His major research interests include nuclear strategy,
ballistic missile defense, chemical and biological weapons
proliferation, and arms control. Since 1995 Dean Wilkening has been the
director of the Science Program at the Center for International
Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University. |
| Williams, Ellen D. |
University of Maryland |
90's - 21th |
Worked at the Department for Physics and Astronomy of the University of
Maryland from 1981 to 1991. Director Chemical Physics Program at the
University of Maryland 1993-1995. Professor at the Department of
Physics and Institute for Physical Science & Technology of the
University of Maryland 1991 - present. |
| Wigner, Eugene P. |
Princeton University |
60's - 70's |
Professor of Mathematical Physics at Princeton University from 1938 to
1971. Wigner worked on the Manhattan Project at the University of
Chicago during World War II, from 1942 to 1945, and in 1946-1947 became
Director of Research and Development at Clinton Laboratories. He is a
past vice- president and president of the American Physical Society, of
which he remains a member. He is a past member of the board of
directors of the American Nuclear Society and still a member. He was a
member of the General Advisory Committee to the U.S. Atomic Energy
Commission from 1952-1957, was reappointed to this committee in 1959
and served on it until 1964. Received the Nobel Prize in Physics in
1963. |
| Woodin, W. Hugh |
University of California |
90's - 21th |
Professor
at the Department of Mathematics of the University of California,
Berkeley. He has made many notable contributions to the theory of inner
models and determinacy. His recent work on Ω-logic suggests an argument
that the continuum hypothesis is false. In 1997 he was a member of the
JASON study 'Human Genome Project'. He is mentioned in the 2001 JASON
study 'Biofutures'. |
| Wright, S. Courtnay |
University of Chicago |
60's - 70's |
Professor
of physics at the University of Chicago since 1949. His research
conducted at Chicago, Fermilab, and Los Alamos concerned pion and muon
low energy physics; high energy muon proton inelastic scattering; very
rare decays of muons; and accelerator design. |
| York, Herbert F. |
University of California; PSAC |
60's - 90's |
Professor
of physics; worked on the Manhattan Project; chairman of the U.C.'s
Scientific and Academic Advisory Committee, which oversees activities
at both Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories. |
| Zachariasen, Frederik |
University of California |
60's - 90's |
Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech. Involved in many nuclear
physics projects. Worked a lot with co-JASON member Murray Gell-Mann. |
| Zweig, George |
M.I.T.; University of California; University of Wisconsin |
60's - 70's |
Professor
of physics at Caltech. As a member of the JASON Division at the
Institute for Defense Analysis (1965-1972), Zweig was one of the
originators of a project (still classified) of a scale and
technological complexity rivaling the Manhattan project. Other defense
projects he worked on include studying the circumstances under which
underground nuclear explosions trigger earthquakes, and evaluating the
process by which the President communicates with his nuclear forces. In
1971, Zweig took up neurobiology. In 1981, Zweig was awarded a
MacArthur Prize Fellowship for his accomplishments in physics and
neurobiology. (Earlier in that year, he moved his research program from
Caltech to Los Alamos National Laboratory.) In 1999, he joined the
Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT as a Visiting Scientist to
pursue his interests in cochlear mechanics. |
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