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President's Science Advisory Committee, 1963

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Members of the President's Science Advisory Committee pose in a conference room. Stamp on verso reads "M.I.T. Historical Collections, received from Mrs. Edwin R. Gilliland, date: Feb. 1975". Original Credit Line: Cecil W. Stoughton, 39A-1-63.

Original Captions: "PSAC - President's Science Advisory Committee", "PSAC of 1964 - [illegible] 1965 issue of Science + Technology".

Original Caption: "Front Row John Turkey, Professor of Mathematics, Princeton. Jerome Wiesner, Dean of Science, M. I. T. Donald Hornig, Director, Office of Science and Technology. Colin MacLeod, Deputy Director O. S. T. Jerrold Zacharias, Professor of Physics, M. I. T. Middle Row Wolfgang Panofsky, Director, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. I. I. Rabi, Professor of Physics, Columbia. Back Row Frederick Seitz, President, National Academy of Sciences. Detlev Bronk, President, Rockefeller Institute. Paul Doty, Professor of Chemistry, Harvard. Harvey Brooks, Dean of Engineering and Applied Physics, Harvard. Richard Garwin, Watson Research Lab., Columbia-I. B. M. Edwin Gilliland, Professor of Chemical Engineering, M. I. T. Franklin Long, Professor of Chemistry, Cornell. William McElroy, Chairman, Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins. Melvin Calvin, Professor of Chemistry, California-Berkeley. George Kistiakowsky, Professor of Chemistry, Harvard. David Beckler, Executive Secretary, PSAC."