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Frederick Seitz, Ph.D
| Director Emeritus President Emeritus The Rockefeller University New York, NY Frederick Seitz is a physicist whose career has spanned positions at the University of Pennsylvania, the Carnegie Institute of Technology, and General Electric. During World War II, he worked for the National Defense Research Committee, the Manhattan District, and as a consultant to the Secretary of War. From 1946 to 1947, he directed the training program on peaceful uses of atomic energy at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Appointed professor of physics at the University of Illinois in 1949, Seitz became department chair in 1957 and a dean and vice president for research in 1964. He joined The Rockefeller University as its president in 1968. A prolific author, Dr. Seitz co-edited the series Solid State Physics (launched in 1954), and examined the evolution of science in The Science Matrix (1992). His more recent works include an autobiography, On The Frontier: My Life in Science (1994), Stalin?s Captive: Nikolaus Riehl and the Soviet Race for the Bomb (1995), and Electronic Genie: The Tangled History of Silicon in Electronics (1997). His Modern Theory of Solids (1940) is a classic in the field of physics. Dr. Seitz was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1951, serving as part-time president for three years before assuming full-time responsibility from 1965- 1968. He has served in an advisory capacity to NATO, on the President?s Science Advisory Committee, at the Office of Naval Research, on the National Cancer Advisory Board, and at the Smithsonian Institution. He has in the course of his long career received numerous professional honors, including the Compton Medal, which is the highest award given by the American Institute of Physics. Dr. Seitz holds a bachelor?s degree from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. |
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