| 1 | Name: | Dr. Edward A. Frieman | |
| Institution: | Scripps Institute of Oceanography & University of California, San Diego | ||
| Year Elected: | 1990 | ||
| Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | ||
| Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | ||
| Residency: | Resident | ||
| Living? : | Deceased | ||
| Birth Date: | 1926 | ||
| Death Date: | April 11, 2013 | ||
Edward Frieman made equally outstanding contributions to science and public service. A plasma physicist with research interests that extend into other physical science fields, Dr. Frieman is best known for his contributions to stability problems in plasma flow and to the fundamental properties of turbulence flow. His experience in plasma dynamics also permitted an easy transition to the oceanographic questions posed by stratified rotating fluids. A professor at Princeton University for more than 25 years, Dr. Frieman was also employed in the private sector and by the federal government. He had served as Assistant Secretary of the Department of Energy, on the White House Science Council, and on a number of United States Navy boards. He was appointed director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego in 1986 and became Research Professor and Director Emeritus in 1996. He had also been Senior Vice President, Science/Technology at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). Among Dr. Frieman's many honors are the Department of Energy Distinguished Service Medal (1980) and the Richtmyer Award from the American Physical Society (1984). He was a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Astronomical Society, Sigma Xi, and the New York Academy of Sciences. He earned his master's degree in physics in 1948 and his doctoral degree in physics in 1952 from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, New York. Edward A. Frieman died on April 11, 2013, in La Jolla, California, at the age of 87. | |||