• The President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC) was created on November 21, 1957, by President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower, as a direct...
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    served presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman from 1941 to 1951. President Truman created the President's Science Advisory Committee in...
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    James Rhyne Killian (category Office of Science and Technology Policy officials)
    this new role. He headed the Killian Committee and oversaw the creation of the President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC). PSAC was instrumental in initiating...
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    1958, James Killian, who chaired the President's Science Advisory Committee, wrote a memorandum to the President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Titled, "Organization...
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    Renamed the President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC) by Dwight Eisenhower, it was disbanded by President Richard Nixon. Reagan science advisor Jay...
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  • sports conference in the United States President's Science Advisory Committee, an advising body to the U.S. President from Truman to Nixon Public Service...
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  • founded in 1965 at the behest of the President's Science Advisory Committee and the National Academy of Sciences to build and operate Fermilab, a National...
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    Office of Science and Technology Policy on March 25, 2025. President Richard M. Nixon eliminated the President's Science Advisory Committee after his...
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    program, Thomas Gold of Cornell University and part of President's Science Advisory Committee raised a concern that the thick dust layer at the top of...
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    Cyril Stanley Smith (category British historians of science)
    Atomic Energy Commission's influential General Advisory Committee, and the President's Science Advisory Committee. Smith founded the Institute for the Study...
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    including ex officio members: the President's Science Advisory Committee Chairs and the Scientific Advisory Committee in the Office of Guided Missiles...
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  • Howard P. Robertson (category University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences alumni)
    was chairman of the Defense Science Board from 1956 to 1961, and a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC) from 1957 to 1961. The...
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  • it had grown to over 40 members, with close ties to the President's Science Advisory Committee. In the early 1970s the backing institution for JASON was...
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  • active 1946-1992, now Air Force Global Strike Command President's Science Advisory Committee Sacramento Kings, a National Basketball Association team...
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    Alvin M. Weinberg (category Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences)
    Reactor designs. In 1960, Weinberg was appointed to the President's Science Advisory Committee in the Eisenhower administration and later served on it...
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  • consults with the Academic Council and jointly appoints with the president an ad-hoc committee from various departments and non-MIT members to evaluate the...
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    Frank Press (category Presidents of the United States National Academy of Sciences)
    Press served on the President's Science Advisory Committee during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and was appointed by President Richard Nixon to...
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    The Sputnik crisis of 1957 led Eisenhower to create the President's Science Advisory Committee. Once that body was in place, Eisenhower began to directly...
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  • the satellite. On March 5, President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC) Chairman James Killian wrote a memorandum to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, entitled...
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  • George Pake (category National Medal of Science laureates)
    director of Xerox PARC. Pake served on the President's Science Advisory Committee (1965-1969). He was president of the American Physical Society in 1977...
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  • Titan rocket families. He served as a consultant to the President's Science Advisory Committee from 1957 until 1978. Allen F. Donovan was born in Onondaga...
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    Isidor Isaac Rabi (category Office of Science and Technology Policy officials)
    it could provide the President with timely advice. This was done, and the SAC became the President's Science Advisory Committee a few weeks later. He...
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    Robert Bacher (category University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni)
    appointed a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC) in 1958. In 1962, he became Caltech's vice president and provost. He stepped down...
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  • government on science and technology. At various times he served as a senior consultant to the President's Science Advisory Committee, the Atomic Energy...
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    until his retirement in 1952. Buckley was a member of the General Advisory Committee of the United States Atomic Energy Commission from 1948 to 1954. In...
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    The President's Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB) is an advisory body to the Executive Office of the President of the United States. According to its...
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    Rachel Carson (category American women science writers)
    government agencies as early as Carson's testimony before the President's Science Advisory Committee, the 1967 formation of the Environmental Defense Fund was...
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  • 1958, James Rhyne Killian, chairman of the recently formed President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC), convened a working group at Livermore to explore...
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    Columbia University. The Advisory Committee on Uranium reported to the President on November 1, 1939. While acknowledging that the science was unproven and that...
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    National Advisory Committee for Women (NACW) was a presidential commission established by President Jimmy Carter in 1978. It was renamed the President's Advisory...
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