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 William Colglazier Executive Officer National Academy of Sciences Washington, D.C. Dr. E. William Colglazier is executive officer of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and chief operating officer of the National Research Council (NRC). From 1991 to 1994, he was executive director of the Office of International Affairs of the NRC. From 1983 to 1991, he was professor of physics and director of the Energy, Environment, and Resources Center at the University of Tennessee. He worked at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard prior to 1983. While at Harvard, Colglazier also served as associate director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Humanism of the Aspen Institute. In 1976-77, he was an AAAS Congressional Science Fellow working for Congressman George Brown. He is past chair of the Forum on Physics and Society of the American Physical Society and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society. Colglazier received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1971. Contributions |
