Class
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| | 1 | Name: | Dr. J. D. Baldeschwieler | | | Institution: | California Institute of Technology | | | Year Elected: | 1979 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1933 | | | | | | |
John Dickson Baldeschwieler was born in New Jersey in 1933 and earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1959. After serving in the United States Army, he held assistant, associate and full professorships at Harvard University and Stanford University before joining the California Institute of Technology in 1973 as professor of chemistry and chairman of the division of chemistry and chemical engineering. From 1971-73 he also served as deputy director of the Office of Science and Technology in the White House. A member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Dr. Baldeschwieler pioneered the utilization of nuclear magnetic resonance and double resonance spectroscopy, nuclear Overhauser effects, ion cyclotron resonance and perturbed angular correlation spectroscopy in chemical problems. His latest contributions concentrate on the use of phospholipid vesicles in cancer diagnosis and therapy, on the development of scanning tunneling and atomic force microscopy for the study of molecules on surfaces, and on novel techniques for producing combinatorial arrays of oligonucleotides. He received the 2000 National Medal of Science for his contributions to science and public service, the American Chemical Society 2001 Award for Creative Invention and the 2003 Othmer Gold Medal of the Chemical Heritage Foundation. He is currently J. Stanley Johnson Professor Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology. | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. Edward E. David | | | Institution: | EED, Inc. | | | Year Elected: | 1979 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 103. Engineering | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1925 | | | Death Date: | February 13, 2017 | | | | | | |
Edward E. David was the president of EED, Inc, advisors to industry, government and universities, and consults on research and development, strategic planning and management, intellectual property, technology transfer, enhancing corporate research programs and developing corporate-academic research partnerships for the Washington Advisory Group. He received his doctorate in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1950 and spent the first two decades of his research career at Bell Telephone Laboratories, ascending to the position of executive director. From 1970-73 Dr. David served as science advisor to the President of the United States and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He was also president of Exxon Research and Engineering Company from 1977-86, leading the corporation's research operations in projects both domestically and abroad. Dr. David was on the boards of several businesses and on technical advisory boards nationally and abroad. In 2009 he was awarded the Exceptional Public Service Medal for his outstanding leadership, dedication, and commitment to NASA as a member of the NASA Advisory Council. He was a retired U.S. Representative to the NATO Science Committee as well as a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2017. Edward E. David, Jr., died February 13, 2017, at age 92, at his home in Bedminster, New Jersey. | |
| 3 | Name: | Dr. Richard L. Garwin | | | Institution: | IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center | | | Year Elected: | 1979 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1928 | | | | | | |
Richard L. Garwin is IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He received his B.S. in physics from Case Institute of Technology in 1947 and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago in 1949. After three years on the faculty of the University of Chicago, he joined IBM Corporation in 1952 where he was IBM Fellow until 1993. He also held adjunct positions at the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University and Columbia University. Dr. Garwin is the co-author of many books and holds numerous United States patents. He is the recipient of the 1983 Wright Prize for interdisciplinary scientific achievement, the 1988 Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the 1991 Erice "Science for Peace" Prize, the 1996 R.V. Jones Intelligence Award, the 1996 Enrico Fermi Award, the 2002 National Medal of Science, and the 2016 Medal of Freedom. Richard Garwin has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Group to the Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff and was in 1998 a Commissioner on the "Rumsfeld" Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States. From 1993-2001 he chaired the Arms Control and Nonproliferation Board of the Department of State. He was a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee (1962-65; 1969-72) and the Defense Science Board (1966-69). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1979. | |
| 4 | Name: | Dr. Hiroshi Inose | | | Institution: | National Institute of Informatics | | | Year Elected: | 1979 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 103. Engineering | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1927 | | | Death Date: | October 11, 2000 | | | | |
| 5 | Name: | Dr. Theodor Wieland | | | Institution: | Max Planck Institute for Medical Research | | | Year Elected: | 1979 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1913 | | | Death Date: | 11/24/95 | | | | |
| 6 | Name: | Dr. Hatten S. Yoder | | | Institution: | Carnegie Institution of Washington | | | Year Elected: | 1979 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 105. Physical Earth Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1921 | | | Death Date: | August 2, 2003 | | | | |
| 7 | Name: | Dr. Yakov B. Zel'Dovich | | | Year Elected: | 1979 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1914 | | | Death Date: | 12/2/87 | | | | |
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