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Members of the NBS Visiting Committee (1901-1987)
Members of the NBS Visiting Committee from 1901-1987
| Name | Title and Organization | Years Served |
| Albert Ladd Colby | Consulting Engineer in Metallurgy & Secretary Association of American Steel Manufactures |
1901-1907 |
| Dr. Elihu Thomson | Electrical Engineer General Electric Co. |
1901-1918 |
| Dr. Ira Remsen | Director of Chemical Laboratory & President John Hopkins University |
1901-1909 |
| Dr. Henry S. Pritchett | President Massachusetts Institute of Technology; later President Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching |
1901-1910 |
| Prof. Edward L. Nichols | Professor of Physics Cornell University |
1901-1911 |
| Dr. Robert S. Woodward | President Carnegie Institution of Washington |
1908-1912 |
| Prof. Henry M. Howe | Professor of Metallurgy Columbia University |
1909-1914 |
| Prof. Arthur G. Webster | Director, Physics Laboratory Clark University |
1910-1915 |
| Prof. John F. Hayford | Director, College of Engineering Northwestern University |
1912-1921 |
| Prof. Arthur E. Kennelly | Professor of Electrical Engineering Harvard University |
1912-1917 |
| John R. Freeman | Consulting Engineer |
1915-1924 & 1926-1931 |
| Prof. William A. Noyes | Director, Chemical Laboratory University of Illinois |
1915-1920 |
| Prof. Joseph S. Ames | Director, Physical Laboratory John Hopkins University |
1917-1922 |
| Prof. Fred W. McNair | President Michigan College of Mines |
1921-1923 |
| Prof. Wilder D. Bancroft | Professor of Physical Chemistry Cornell University |
1920-1925 |
| Dr. Ambrose Swasey | Chairman of the Board Warner & Swasey Co. |
1921-1926 |
| Dr. Samuel W. Stratton | President Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
1923-1931 |
| Gano Dunn | President J.G. White Engineering Corporation |
1923-1948 |
| Prof. William F. Durand | Professor of Mechanical Engineering Leland Stanford University |
1924-1929 |
| Dr. Willis R. Whitney | Director General Electric Research Laboratory |
1925-1930 |
| Dr. Charles F. Kettering | Director of Research & Vice President General Motors Corp. |
1929-1934 & 1947-1952 |
| Dr. Charles L. Reese | Consulting Chemist E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. |
1930-1935 |
| Mr. Morris E. Leeds | President Leeds & Northrup Co. |
1931-1941 |
| Dr. Karl T. Compton | President Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
1931-1947 |
| Dr. William D. Coolidge | Vice President & Director of Research General Electric Co. |
1935-1949 |
| Dr. Frank B. Jewett | Vice President of Research & Development American Telephone & Telegraph Co.; and President National Academy of Sciences |
1935-1945 |
| Dr. Vannevar Bush | President Carnegie Institution of Washington; and Director Office of Scientific Research & Development |
1942-1946 |
| Dr. Harold C. Urey | Research Professor of Chemistry University of Chicago |
1945-1950 |
| Dr. Eugene P. Wigner | Metallurgical Laboratory University of Chicago; and Director of Research Clinton Laboratories |
1946-1951 |
| Dr. Robert F. Mehl | Director, Metals Research Laboratory Carnegie Institute of Technology |
1948-1953 |
| Dr. Donald H. Menzel | Chairman, Department of Astronomy Harvard University; and Associate Director Harvard Observatory |
1949-1954 |
| Dr. Detlev W. Bronk | President Johns Hopkins University |
1950-1960 |
| Prof. John H. Van Vleck | Dean, Division of Applied Science Harvard University |
1951-1956 |
| Dr. Mervin J. Kelly | President Bell Telephone Laboratories |
1952-1962 |
| Dr. Clyde E. Williams | Director Battelle Memorial Institute |
1953-1958 |
| Dr. Crawford H. Greenewalt | President E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. |
1954-1964 |
| Prof. Frederick Seitz | Chairman, Department of Physics University of Illinois |
1956-1961 |
| Dr. Lloyd V. Berkner | Scientific Research Administrator; Chairman Space Science Board National Academy of Sciences |
1957-1962 |
| Prof. Charles H. Townes | Department of Physics Columbia University; and Consultant Brookhaven National Laboratories |
1960-1965 |
| Emanuel R. Priore | Vice President and Chief Scientist International Business Machines Corporation |
1962-1972 |
| Elmer W. Engstrom | President Radio Corporation of America |
1963-1971 |
| Paul C. Cross | President Mellon Institute |
1964-1969 |
| Norman F. Ramsey | Department of Physics Harvard University |
1965-1970 & 1982-1987 |
| Robert L. Sproull | Vice President University of Rochester |
1966-1971 |
| Jack E. Goldman | Senior Vice President, Research and Development, Xerox Corporation |
1969-1974 |
| James C. Fletcher | President University of Utah |
1970-1971 |
| Milton Harris | Founder Harris Research Laboratories, Inc. |
1971-1973 |
| Arthur M. Bueche | Vice President, Research and Development General Electric Company |
1971-1975 |
| H. Guyford Stever | President Carnegie Mellon |
1971-1971 |
| John G. Truxal | Dean, College of Engineering State University of New York at Stonybrook |
1972-1976 |
| Charles E. Peck | Vice President, Construction Group Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation |
1972-1977 |
| Edwin A. Gee | Senior Vice President E.I. du Pont |
1973-1978 |
| Robert H. Dicke | Department of Physics Princeton University |
1974-1979 |
| W. Dale Compton | Vice President, Research Ford Motor Company |
1975-1980 |
| William D. Carey | Executive Officer American Association for the Advancement of Science |
1976-1981 |
| William K. Linvill | Department of Engineering Economics Stanford University |
1977-1980 |
| Dorothy M. Simon | Vice President Research Avco Corporation |
1978-1983 |
| Walter H. Stockmayer | Department of Chemistry Dartmouth College |
1979-1984 |
| Russell G. Meyerand Jr. | Vice President, Technology United Technologies Corp. |
1980-1985 |
| Bernard M. Oliver | Vice President Hewlett-Packard Company |
1981-1986 |
| Robert H. Pry | Consultant Gould Inc. |
1983-1988 |
| William D. Manly | Senior Vice President Cabot Corporation |
1984-1989* |
| Arden L. Bement | Vice President, Technical Resources, Service and Technology Department TRW, Inc. |
1985-1990* |
| John G. Bollinger | Dean, College of Engineering University of Wisconsin |
1987-1991* |
| *Membership carried over from the NBS Visiting Committee to the NIST Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology created in 1988. |
Created December 21, 2010, Updated September 9, 2021