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| | 1 | Name: | Dr. Armand Borel | | | Institution: | Institute for Advanced Study | | | Year Elected: | 1985 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 104. Mathematics | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1923 | | | Death Date: | August 11, 2003 | | | | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. Ralph Edward Gomory | | | Institution: | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; NYU Stern | | | Year Elected: | 1985 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 104. Mathematics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1929 | | | | | | |
Ralph E. Gomory served as President of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation from June 1989 to January 2008. He now serves as Director of Special Programs. Dr. Gomory received his B.A. from Williams College in 1950, studied at Cambridge University and received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1954. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1954 to 1957. Dr. Gomory was Higgins Lecturer and Assistant Professor at Princeton University from 1957 to 59. He joined the Research Division of IBM in 1959, was named IBM Fellow in 1964, and became Director of the Mathematical Sciences Department in 1965. He was made IBM Director of Research in 1970 a position he held until 1986, becoming IBM Vice President in 1973 and Senior Vice President in 1985. In 1986 he became IBM Senior Vice President for Science and Technology, a position which he held until 1989 when he retired from IBM. Dr. Gomory is a member of both the National Academies of Science and of Engineering. He has been awarded a number of honorary degrees and prizes including 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. Bueche Award of the National Academy of Engineering in 1993; the Heinz Award for Technology, the Economy and Employment in 1998; the Madison Medal Award of Princeton University in 1999; and the Sheffield Fellowship Award of the Yale University Faculty of Engineering in 2000. He was named to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in 1990 and served to March 1993. Dr. Gomory has been an American Philosophical Society member since 1985. | |
| 3 | Name: | Dr. Stig Lundqvist | | | Institution: | Chalmers Institute of Technology | | | Year Elected: | 1985 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1925 | | | Death Date: | April 6, 2000 | | | | |
| 4 | Name: | Dr. Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky | | | Institution: | Stanford University | | | Year Elected: | 1985 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1919 | | | Death Date: | September 24, 2007 | | | | | | |
Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center's (SLAC) first Director, is an internationally known experimental high-energy physicist, expert on particle accelerator design, and governmental advisor on physics and international arms control issues. After receiving his a.b. from Princeton (1938) and Ph.D. from Cal Tech (1942, Physics), he did research for the Office of Scientific Research and Development; he then went to the University of California, Berkeley in 1947 as a researcher and then Associate Professor. He joined the faculty of Stanford University as Professor of Physics in 1951, and took on the directorship of the High Energy Physics Laboratory there in 1953. He became Director of SLAC in 1961, and implemented the creation, design and construction of the new two-mile linear accelerator and development of its research program. As Director of SLAC, until his retirement as Emeritus Director and Professor of Physics at Stanford in 1984, Panofsky oversaw the development of SLAC's various facilities (including the Stanford Positron Electron Accelerator Ring [SPEAR], the Positron-Electron Project [PEP], and the initial stages of the Stanford Linear Collider); he took an active role in the development of its research program and in the management of financial, personnel, health and safety, and other business aspects of the laboratory. As both physicist and arms control expert, he has served on many science policy committees, including the President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC), the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP) to the Department of Energy (DOE), and the Committee for International Security and Arms Control (CISAC) of the National Academy of Sciences. He is Chairman of the Board of Overseers of University Research Associates for the Super-conducting Super Collider Laboratory. | |
| 5 | Name: | Dr. George C. Pimentel | | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | | | Year Elected: | 1985 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1922 | | | Death Date: | 6/18/89 | | | | |
| 6 | Name: | Dr. I. M. Singer | | | Institution: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | | Year Elected: | 1985 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 104. Mathematics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1924 | | | Death Date: | February 11, 2021 | | | | | | |
Noted for his work with Sir Michael Atiyah on the Atiyah-Singer index theorem, I.M. Singer was Institute Professor of Mathematics Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He began his teaching career at M.I.T. in 1950 after earning a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. In addition to spending much of his career at M.I.T, he has also served on the faculties of the University of California, Los Angeles (1952-54), Columbia University (1955), the Institute for Advanced Study (1955-56) and Harvard University (1984-). In his research Dr. Singer has covered deeper analytic properties of partial differential equations on manifold turnout that depend on ideas from differential geometry. He made decisive advances in this direction and applied his understanding of geometry to the use of fiber bundles for Yang-Mills fields, sparking a convergence between theoretical physics and mathematics. Additionally, his spectacular development of the Atiyah-Singer index theorem described how the index of an elliptic differential operator on a compact manifold can be determined by topolotical variance. He has applied these ideas to Yang-Mills fields in stantors and non-abelian theories. Dr. Singer has been honored with the National Medal of Science (1983), the American Mathematical Society's Bocher Prize (1969) and the Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2000) and with membership in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. He has also served as chairman of the NAS Committee on Science and Public Policy (1976-80). He died on February 11, 2021. | |
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