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Sidney Drell, Deputy Director Emeritus
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Professor and Deputy Director, Emeritus
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
"Truth emerges more readily from error than confusion." --Francis Bacon.
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Professor Emeritus, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory,
Stanford University
(Deputy Director before retiring in 1998)
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Senior Fellow (by courtesy) at the Hoover Institution
since 1998
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Member, JASON, The MITRE Corporation
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Member, Board of Governors, Weizmann Institute of Science,
Rehovot, Israel
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American Physical Society (Fellow) - President, 1986
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National Academy of Sciences
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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American Philosophical Society
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Academia Europaea
- Prize Fellowship of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation, November (1984-1989)
- Ernest Orlando Lawrence Memorial Award (1972) for research
in Theoretical Physics (Atomic Energy Commission)
- University of Illinois Alumni Award for Distinguished
Service in Engineering (1973); Alumni Achievement Award (1988)
- Guggenheim Fellowship, (1961-1962) and (1971-1972)
- Richtmyer Memorial Lecturer to the American Association
of Physics Teachers, San Francisco, California (1978)
- Leo Szilard Award for Physics in the Public Interest
(1980) presented by the American Physical Society
- Honorary Doctors Degrees: University of Illinois; Tel
Aviv University; Weizmann Institute of Science
- 1983 Honoree of the Natural Resources Defense Council
for work in arms control
- Lewis M. Terman Professor and Fellow, Stanford University
(1979-1984)
- 1993 Hilliard Roderick Prize of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science in Science, Arms Control, and International
Security
- 1994 Woodrow Wilson Award, Princeton University, for
"Distinguished Achievement in the Nation's Service"
- 1994 Co-recipient of the "Ettore Majorana - Erice -
Science for Peace Prize"
- 1995 John P. McGovern Science and Society Medalist of
Sigma Xi
- 1996 Gian Carlo Wick Commemorative Medal Award, ICSC–World
Laboratory
- 1997 Distinguished Associate Award of U.S. Department
of Energy
- 1998 I. Ya. Pomeranchuk Prize, Inst. of Theoretical
and Experimental Physics, Moscow
- 1999-2000 Linus Pauling Medal of Stanford University
- 2000 University of California Presidential Medal
- 2000 One of 10 scientists honored as "Founder of national
reconnaissance as a space discipline" by U.S. National Reconnaissance
Office
- 2000 The Enrico Fermi Award, presented on behalf of
the President of the United States and the Secretary by the U.S. Department
of Energy, for a lifetime of achievement in the field of nuclear energy
- 2001 National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal,
the U.S. intelligence community's highest honor, presented by the Director
of Central Intelligence at the CIA
- 2001 William O. Baker Award for contributions to national
security, particularly in the field of foreign intelligence,
sponsored by the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA)
- 2001 Heinz R. Pagels Human Rights of Scientists Award,
New York Academy of Sciences
- 2005 11th annual Heinz Award for Public Policy, Washington, D.C.
- 2008 Rumford Prize, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2008 Stanford University Pioneers in Science
- 2010 INSA Achievement Award
- 2011 INSA Achievement Award
- 2012 NNSA Administrator's Gold Medal of Excellence, Washington, D.C., in recognition of many years of exceptional contributions to Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories, the NNSA, the Department of Energy (DOE) and the nation.
- The 2012 Reykjavik Award, honored by the Federation of American
Scientists, for work toward a nuclear weapon free world, Washington
D.C.
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2013 Awarded the 2011 National Medal of Science, Washington, D.C., for his contributions to quantum field theory and quantum chromodynamics and for his application of science to inform public policy in national security and intelligence
- Married (Harriet J. Stainback, Minter City, Mississippi)
- Children (Daniel W., b. 1953; Persis S., b. 1955; Joanna
H., b. 1965)
- 1946 A.B., Princeton University
- 1947 M.A., University of Illinois
- 1949 Ph.D., University of Illinois
- Theoretical Physics: Elementary Particle Physics and
Quantum Theory
- National Security and arms control
| 2006-2012 |
External Governor on the Board of Governor's Los Alamos National Security (LANS) LLC, and Livermore National Laboratory Security (LLNS) LLC |
| 2001-2003 |
Member, Advisory Committee to the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA/DOE) |
| 2001-2002 |
Chair, Senior Review Board for the Intelligence
Technology Innovation Center
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1992-2001
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Member, NonProliferaton Advisory Panel
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| 1993-2001 |
Member, President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory
Board |
| 1998-1999 |
Member, Commission on Maintaining US Nuclear Weapons
Expertise |
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1995
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Chair, JASON Study for DOE on Nuclear Testing
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1994
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Chair, JASON Study for DOE on Science Based Stockpile
Stewardship
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| 1990-1993 |
Chairman, Technology Review Panel, Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence |
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1991-1993
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Member, Director's Advisory Committee, Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory
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1990-1991
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Chairman, House Armed Services Committee Panel on
Nuclear Weapons Safety
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1978-1982
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Consultant, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
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| 1980-2007 |
Member, Council on Foreign Relations, New York |
| 1978-1980 |
Member, Energy Research Advisory Board, U. S. Department of
Energy |
| 1977-1982 |
Consultant, Office of Science and Technology Policy |
| 1975-1991 |
Consultant, Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress |
| 1974-1985 |
Member, High Energy Physics Advisory Panel, U.S. Department
of Energy, Chairman 1974-82; Chairman HEPAP Subpanel on Superconducting
Super-Collider Physics (1990) and on the Vision for the Future of
High Energy Physics (1994) |
| 1974-1976 |
Member, U.S. Defense Science Board Task Force |
| 1973-1981 |
Consultant, National Security Council |
| 1969-1981 |
Consultant, U. S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency |
| 1966-1971 |
Member, President’s Science Advisory Committee |
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1963-1973 |
Consultant, Office of Science and Technology, Executive Office
of the President, and Member (or Chairman) of PSAC Panels on
national security problems |
| 2001 |
Lauritsen Lecturer, California Institute of Technology
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1999-2000
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Linus Pauling Lecturer and Medalist, Stanford University
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| 1992-1999 |
Chairman, University of California President’s
Council on the National Labs |
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1997
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Brickwedde Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University
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1995
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Kovler Lecturer, U. of Chicago
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1991-1993
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Chairman, International Advisory Committee of the
University of California’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation
(IGCC)
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| 1991 |
First Colonel Tom Johnson Visiting Scholar at West
Point Military Academy |
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1989-1996
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Adjunct Professor, Department of Engineering and
Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
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Spring 1988
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Hans Bethe Lecturer, Cornell University
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| 1988-1993 |
Member, Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology,
and Government |
| 1985-1990 |
Member, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Advisory Board
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| Spring 1984 |
I. I. Rabi Visiting Professor, Columbia University
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| 1984, 1990 |
Visiting Professor, Rockefeller University |
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1984-1991
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Member, Aspen Strategy Group |
| Spring 1983 |
Danz Lecturer, University of Washington, Seattle
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1983-1989
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Co-Director, Stanford Center for International Security
and Arms Control
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Spring 1979
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Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford University
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1977-1990
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Member, American Committee on U.S.-Soviet Relations
(formerly Committee on East-West Accord) [Member, Science Advisory
Committee]
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Spring 1975
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Schrodinger Visiting Professor, University of Vienna,
Austria
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1974-1983
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Member, Board of Trustees, Institute for Advanced
Study Princeton, New Jersey (current emeritus)
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Spring 1972
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Visiting Professor, University of Rome, Italy
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1972
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Amos de Shalit Lecturer, Weizmann Institute
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1971-1993
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Member, Board of Directors, The Arms Control Association,
Washington, D.C.
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Spring 1971
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Dupont Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania
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Fall 1962
and 1970
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Visiting Professor and Loeb Lecturer, Harvard University
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1969-1986
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Executive Head, Theoretical Physics, Stanford Linear
Accelerator Center
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1966-1969
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Member, Advisory Council, Physics Dept., Princeton
Univ., (Chairman 1967-69)
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Numerous papers in theoretical physics; and 3 books on physics
- Nuclear Deterrence in a World without Nuclear Weapons by Sidney D. Drell and Raymond Jeanloz, Hoover Institution Conference Nov. 11-12, 2010, 18 pp.
- Tribute to Andrei Sakharov" Conference on "Deterrence: Its Past and Future Presented at the Lancaster House, London, UK, May 22, 2011
- Deterrence: It's Past and Future, A Summary Report of Conference Proceedings, Hoover Institution, November 2010, edited by George P. Shultz, Sidney D. Drell, and James E. Goodby, Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 2011, 211 pp.
- Realizing the Full Potential Of the Open Skies Treaty by Sidney D. Drell and Christopher W. Stubbs, ARMS CONTROL TODAY, Vol. 41, Number 6, July/August 2011, 15-20
- Modernize Open Skies by Sidney D. Drell and Christopher Stubbs, THE NEW YORK TIMES Opinion, March 29, 2012
- Nuclear Detterence In a Changed World by Sidney D. Drell and James E. Goodby, ARMS CONTROL TODAY, June 2012, 8-13
- A Safer Nuclear Enterprise by Sidney D. Drell, George P. Shultz and Steven P. Andreasen, SCIENCE, published by AAAS, Vol.2336, June 8, 2012, p.1236
- Deterrence: Its Past and Future - Papers Presented at Hoover Institution, November 2010 (Hoover Institute Press, 2011).
- Relativistic Quantum Mechanics (with J.D. Bjorken)
McGraw Hill, 1964
- Relativistic Quantum Fields (with J.D. Bjorken)
McGraw Hill, 1965
- Electromagnetic Structure of Nucleons (with
F. Zachariasen) Oxford, 1961
- Facing the Threat of Nuclear Weapons (University
of Washington Press, 1983) (2nd Edition 1989)
- Sidney Drell on Arms Control (edited by Kenneth
W. Thompson) (University Press of America, 1988)
- The Reagan Strategic Defense Initiative: A Technical,
Political, and Arms Control Assessment (with P. J. Farley and D.
Holloway) (Ballinger, 1984)
- Sakharov Remembered: A Tribute by Friends and Colleagues
(edited with Sergei Kapitsa) (American Institute of Physics, 1991)
- In the Shadow of the Bomb: Physics and Arms Control
(American Institute of Physics, 1993)
- Reducing Nuclear Danger (with McGeorge Bundy
and William J. Crowe, Jr.) (Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1993)
- The New Terror: Facing the Threat of Biological
and Chemical Weapons (edited with Abraham D. Sofaer and George
D. Wilson) (Hoover Institution Press, 1999)
- The Gravest Danger: Nuclear Weapons (with James E. Goodby) (Foreword by George P. Shultz) (Hoover Institution Press, 2003)
- Nuclear Weapons, Scientists, and the Post-Cold War Challenge, Selected Papers on Arms Control, World Scientific, 323 pages, 2007
- "Implications of the Reykjavik Summit on Its Twentieth Anniversary" Conference Report, Conference Organizers and Report Editors: Sidney D. Drell and George P. Shultz, Conference held October 11-12, 2006 at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Hoover Institution Press, 223 pp. (2007)
- "Stevenson and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Today" by Sidney D. Drell and James E. Goodby, appeared in Adlai Stevenson's Lasting Legacy, Edited by Alvin Liebling, 77-85 (2007)
- "Reykjavik Revisited: Steps Toward a World Free of Nuclear Weapons" - A Summary Report of a Conference Held at Stanford University's Hoover Institution on October 24-25, 2007, Edited by George P. Shultz, Sidney D. Drell, and James E. Goodby, Hoover Institution Press, 90 pp. (2008)
- "Technical Issues in Keeping the Nuclear Stockpile Safe, Secure, and Reliable" by Marvin L. Adams and Sidney D. Drell, appeared in Nuclear Weapons in 21st Century, U. S. National Security, Supporting Papers, 11 - 25 (2009) (CSIS, APS physics, and AAAS)
- "A World Without Nuclear Weapons: End State Issues" by Sidney D. Drell and James E. Goodby, Foreword by George P. Schultz, Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 2009, 72 pp.
- "Working toward a world without nuclear weapons" by Sidney D. Drell, Physics Today, July 2010, 30 - 35 (prepared for Max von Laue Lecture, Spring 2010)
- "Ideas for a better world in 2011" by Sidney D. Drell, The Christian Science Monitor, December 2011, p. 22
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