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Sidney Drell, Deputy Director Emeritus

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Professor and Deputy Director, Emeritus
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
"Truth emerges more readily from error than confusion." --Francis Bacon.

Present Position

  • Professor Emeritus, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University
    (Deputy Director before retiring in 1998)
  • Senior Fellow (by courtesy) at the Hoover Institution since 1998

Present Activities

  • Member, JASON, The MITRE Corporation
  • Member, Board of Governors, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
  • Governer, Los Alamos National Security (LANS) and Lawrence Livermore National Security (LLNS)

Professional and Honorary Societies

  • American Physical Society (Fellow) - President, 1986
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Philosophical Society
  • Academia Europaea

Awards and Honors

  • 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.

Personal Data

  • Married (Harriet J. Stainback, Minter City, Mississippi)
  • Children (Daniel W., b. 1953; Persis S., b. 1955; Joanna H., b. 1965)

Education

  • 1946 A.B., Princeton University
  • 1947 M.A., University of Illinois
  • 1949 Ph.D., University of Illinois

Special Fields

  • Theoretical Physics: Elementary Particle Physics and Quantum Theory
  • National Security and arms control

Recent Positions and Activities - GOVERNMENT

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
1992-2001 Member, NonProliferaton Advisory Panel
1993-2001 Member, President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
1998-1999 Member, Commission on Maintaining US Nuclear Weapons Expertise
1995  Chair, JASON Study for DOE on Nuclear Testing
1994  Chair, JASON Study for DOE on Science Based Stockpile Stewardship
1990-1993 Chairman, Technology Review Panel, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
1991-1993 Member, Director's Advisory Committee, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
1990-1991 Chairman, House Armed Services Committee Panel on Nuclear Weapons Safety
1978-1982 Consultant, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
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
1963-1973 Consultant, Office of Science and Technology, Executive Office of the President, and Member (or Chairman) of PSAC Panels on national security problems

Recent Positions and Activities - ACADEMIC

2001 Lauritsen Lecturer, California Institute of Technology
1999-2000 Linus Pauling Lecturer and Medalist, Stanford University
1992-1999 Chairman, University of California President’s Council on the National Labs
1997 Brickwedde Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University
1995 Kovler Lecturer, U. of Chicago
1991-1993 Chairman, International Advisory Committee of the University of California’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC)
1991 First Colonel Tom Johnson Visiting Scholar at West Point Military Academy
1989-1996 Adjunct Professor, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
Spring 1988 Hans Bethe Lecturer, Cornell University
1988-1993 Member, Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government
1985-1990 Member, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Advisory Board
Spring 1984 I. I. Rabi Visiting Professor, Columbia University
1984, 1990 Visiting Professor, Rockefeller University
1984-1991 Member, Aspen Strategy Group
Spring 1983 Danz Lecturer, University of Washington, Seattle
1983-1989 Co-Director, Stanford Center for International Security and Arms Control
Spring 1979 Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford University
1977-1990 Member, American Committee on U.S.-Soviet Relations (formerly Committee on East-West Accord) [Member, Science Advisory Committee]
Spring 1975 Schrodinger Visiting Professor, University of Vienna, Austria
1974-1983 Member, Board of Trustees, Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, New Jersey (current emeritus)
Spring 1972 Visiting Professor, University of Rome, Italy
1972 Amos de Shalit Lecturer, Weizmann Institute
1971-1993 Member, Board of Directors, The Arms Control Association, Washington, D.C.
Spring 1971 Dupont Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania
Fall 1962
and 1970
Visiting Professor and Loeb Lecturer, Harvard University
1969-1986 Executive Head, Theoretical Physics, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
1966-1969 Member, Advisory Council, Physics Dept., Princeton Univ., (Chairman 1967-69)

Publications

Numerous papers in theoretical physics; and 3 books on physics
  • 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)
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