Guyford Stever
Guyford Stever | |
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1st Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy | |
In office August 9, 1976 – January 20, 1977 | |
President | Gerald Ford |
Preceded by | Ed David (Science and Technology, 1973) |
Succeeded by | Frank Press |
4th Director of the National Science Foundation | |
In office 1972–1976 | |
President | Richard Nixon Gerald Ford |
Preceded by | William D. McElroy |
Succeeded by | Richard C. Atkinson |
5th President of Carnegie Mellon University | |
In office 1965–1972 | |
Preceded by | John Warner |
Succeeded by | Richard Cyert |
Personal details | |
Born | Horton Guyford Stever October 24, 1916 Corning, New York, U.S. |
Died | April 9, 2010 Gaithersburg, Maryland, U.S. | (aged 93)
Education | Colgate University (BS) California Institute of Technology (MS, PhD) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Thesis | 1. The discharge mechanism of Geiger counters. 2. The mean lifetime of the mesotron from electroscope data (1941) |
Doctoral advisor | Victor Neher |
Horton Guyford Stever (October 24, 1916 – April 9, 2010) was an
Biography
Stever was raised in
technology.He returned to MIT after the war, serving as
He also served as the director of the National Science Foundation from 1972 until 1976. Between 1976 and 1977 he was President Gerald Ford's Science Advisor.
He also served on the board of trustees of Science Service, now known as
Stever received an LL.D. from Bates College in 1977. In 1997, he received the Vannevar Bush Award from the National Science Board.
Stever died at his home in Gaithersburg, Maryland on April 9, 2010.[4]
NACA Special Committee on Space Technology
Guyford Stever was chairman or member of numerous
Remarkably, Hendrik Wade Bode, the man who helped develop the robot weapons that brought down the Nazi V-1 flying bombs over London during WWII, was actually serving on the same committee and sitting at the same table as the chief engineer of the V-2, the other weapon that terrorised London: Wernher von Braun.[6][7]
As of their meeting on May 26, 1958, committee members, starting clockwise from the left of the adjacent picture, included:[5]
Committee member | Title |
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Edward R. Sharp | Director of the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory |
Colonel Norman C Appold | Assistant to the Deputy Commander for Weapons Systems, US Air Force
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Abraham Hyatt | Research and Analysis Officer Bureau of Aeronautics, Department of the Navy |
Hendrik Wade Bode | Director of Research Physical Sciences, Bell Telephone Laboratories
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W Randolph Lovelace II | Lovelace Foundation for Medication Education and Research |
S. K Hoffman | General Manager, Rocketdyne Division, North American Aviation |
Milton U Clauser | Director, Aeronautical Research Laboratory, The Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation
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H. Julian Allen | Chief, High Speed Flight Research, NACA Ames
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Robert R. Gilruth | Assistant Director, NACA Langley
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J. R. Dempsey | Manager. Convair-Astronautics (Division of General Dynamics) |
Carl B. Palmer | Secretary to Committee, NACA Headquarters |
H. Guyford Stever | Chairman, Associate Dean of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Hugh L. Dryden | (ex officio), Director, NACA |
Dale R. Corson | Department of Physics, Cornell University |
Abe Silverstein | Associate Director, NACA Lewis
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Wernher von Braun | Director, Development Operations Division, Army Ballistic Missile Agency |
NRC Committee on Human Exploration of Space
In 1990 Stever chaired a Committee on Human Exploration of Space for the
Honors
- Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1953.[9]
- Elected to the American Philosophical Society, 2001.[10]
References
- Fenton, Edwin (2000). Carnegie Mellon 1900-2000: A Centennial History. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press. ISBN 0-88748-323-2.
- Stever, H. Guyford (2002). In War and Peace: My Life in Science and Technology. Joseph Henry Press. ISBN 0-309-08411-3.
- H. Guyford Stever Oral History from IEEE via the Engineering and Technology History Wiki
- Announcement of his death
Footnotes
- ^ National Science Foundation
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- New York Times. 1967. Retrieved 2017-11-02.
- New York Times.
- ^ a b NASA Historical Website
- ^ ...missile research centre run by Wernher von Braun, who later worked on the American space programme(10 June 2001 Germans at last learn truth about von Braun's 'space research' base. By Tony Paterson in Peenemunde, The Telegraph. Retrieved 9-3-07)
- ^ ...Von Braun soon went to work at a secret laboratory called Peenemünde near the Baltic Sea... heading up the team that developed the V2 missile (IEEE Global History Network Retrieved 1-4-09)
- ^ * Human Exploration of Space: A Review of NASA's 90-Day Study and Alternatives.
- ^ "Horton Guyford Stever". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2021-10-11.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-10-11.