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1916 |
Born October 24 in Corning, N.Y. |
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1938 |
A.B., summa cum laude, physics, Colgate University |
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1941 |
Ph.D., magna cum laude, physics, California Institute of Technology |
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1941–1942 |
Staff member, Radiation Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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1942–1945 |
Scientific liaison officer, London Mission, Office of Scientific Research and Development |
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1945–1965 |
MIT Faculty: Assistant professor, 1946–1951, aeronautical engineering; Associate professor, 1951–1956; Professor, 1956–1965, aeronautics and astronautics; Associate dean of engineering, 1956–1959; Department chair, mechanical engineering, and naval architecture and marine engineering, 1961–1965 |
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1946 |
Married Louise Risley Floyd. Four children: Horton Guyford Stever, Jr., August 25, 1947; Sarah Stever, February 25, 1949; Margarette Stever Weed, June 18, 1952; Roy Risley Stever, August 17, 1954 |
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1946–1972 |
Member or chair of numerous committees, principally to advise the military services, especially the U.S. Air Force, on melding science and technology with military goals and needs. Advised on the goals and missions for the newly formed National Aeronautics and Space Administration, for the president on the patent system, and for the Congress on science and technology policy. |
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1955–1956 |
Chief Scientist, U.S. Air Force |
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1956–1972 |
Corporate board member and/or consultant to United Aircraft Corporation, Koppers Corporation, and Fisher Scientific Company |
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1956–1961 |
Vice chairman, Air Force Scientific Advisory Board |
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1962–1968 |
Chairman, Air Force Scientific Advisory Board |
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1965 |
Elected to the National Academy of Engineering |
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1965–1972 |
President, Carnegie Institute of Technology (in 1967, Carnegie Mellon University) |
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1970–1976 |
Member, National Science Board |
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1972–1976 |
Director, National Science Foundation |
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1973 |
Elected to the National Academy of Sciences |
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1976–1977 |
Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy |
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1977–1989 |
Corporate board member and/or consultant to TRW, Schering-Plough, Caterpillar, and Goodyear |
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1977–present |
Advisor through committee memberships and chairmanships on matters including the Strategic Defense Initiative, responding to the Challenger accident, science and technology policy, and other issues for the National Academies, Office of Technology Assessment, and Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government; trustee of the Universities Research Association, Inc., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Science Service |