NOMINATION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1971 U.S. SENATE, COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE, Washington, D.C. The committee met at 10 a.m., pursuant to notice, in room 4232, New Senate Office Building, Senator Harrison A. Williams, Jr. (chairman of the committee) presiding. Present: Senators Williams, Pell, Kennedy, Cranston, Hughes, Javits, Dominick, Schweiker, Taft, and Stafford. The CHAIRMAN. The Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare will come to order. The committee meeting this morning will hear from a nominee who has been named by the President to an office that requires confirmation by the Senate. I would like to come forward Dr. H. Guyford Stever of Pennsylvania, who has been nominated to a 6-year term as Director of the National Science Foundation. Dr. Stever, will you come to the table, please? Dr. Stever comes to us with a most distinguished background as an educator, and an aeronautical engineer. Since 1965 he has been president of Carnegie-Mellon University. Prior to that he served on the faculty of MIT for almost 20 years. We will include your full biography, and also the statutory functions of the Director of the National Science Foundation, Dr. Stever, and turn to Senator Schweiker, a member of this committee. (The information referred to follows:) (1) H. Guyford Stever, Biographical Data Stever, H(orton) Guyford, born in Corning, New York, October 24, 1916. Education A. B., physics, Colgate University, 1938 Ph.D., physics, California Institute of Technology, 1941 1956-59 Career Summary Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), staff member, MIT, associate professor of aeronautical engineering 1946-48 USAF, executive officer, guided missiles program MIT, associate professor of aeronautical engineering 1955-56 USAF, chief scientist MIT, associate dean of engineering 1956-65 - MIT, professor of aeronautical engineering 1961-65 MIT, head, Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Naval Architecture, Aeronautical, missile, and spacecraft engineering, design and performance, particularly aerodynamics; radiation physics; scientific and engineering education; university administration; science policy Professional Societies American Physical Society American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member, National Academy of Engineering Chairman, Aeronautical and Space Engineering Board, 1967-69 Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Institute of Aeronautical Sciences v-p 1958-59, pres., 1960-62 Royal Aeronautical Association American Association for the Advancement of Science - 2 & 3 Phi Beta Kappa Sigma Gamma Tau Tau Beta Pi Professional and Honor Societies and others Awards President's Certificate of Merit, 1948 Exceptional Civilian Service Award, USAF 1956 Scott Gold Medal, American Ordnance Association, 1960 Distinguished Public Service Medal, DOD, 1968 Pittsburgh's "Man of the Year," 1966, Junior Chamber of Commerce Publications Has authored over forty-five published articles, papers or chapters on scientific, technical, educational, and science policy matters. Additional Professional and Civic Activities Member, advisory panel, U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Science and Astronautics; member, President's Commission on the Patent System, 1965-67 (chairman, Ad Hoc Science Panel); Chairman, President's PreInauguration Task Force on Science and Technology, 1967-68; director, Koppers Co., Inc., Fisher Scientific Co., United Aircraft Corp.; trustee, Sarah Mellon Scaife Foundation; trustee, Colgate University; trustee, Shadyside School; former trustee, Buckingham School; director, Pittsburgh Symphony Society; director Regional Industrial Development Corporation; director, Pittsburgh-Allegheny County Chapter of the American Red Cross; director, Metropolitan Pittsburgh Educational Television (WQED). Member of secretariat, guided missiles committee, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1945; member, guided missiles technical evaluation group, Research and Development Board, 1946-48; member of the science advisory board to chief of staff, USAF, 1947-69, chairman, 1962-69; member, steering committee of technical advisory panel on ordnance to Assistant Secretary of Defense, 1954-56; member, steering committee, technical advisory panel on aeronautics, Department of Defense, 1956-62; chairman, special committee on space technology, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; chairman, research advisory committee on missile and spacecraft aerodynamics, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1959-65; member, Defense Science Board. PUBLICATIONS OF H. GUYFORD STEVER October 1971 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. "The Mean Lifetime of the Mesotron from Electroscope Data." "Directional Geiger Counter." The Physical Review, Vol. 59, May 1, 1941. "The Discharge Mechanism of Fast G-M Counters from the "British Radar Equipment." OSRD London Mission Report, ciles. OSRD London "British Guided Anti-aircraft Projectiles." "Introductory Report--Massachusetts Institute of Technology Guided Missile Program." Meteor Report No. 1, July 15, 1946. "Nuclear Powered Flight." Lexington Project Report to "Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of the "Problems of Air Defense." Project Charles Report to the 10. "Determination of Air Velocity by Ion Transit-Time Measurements." The Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 23, No. 4, April 1952. Co-author, William C. Cooley. 11. "Transonic Aircraft Control." Presented to the Second Annual Avionics Symposium, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Baltimore, Maryland, March 18, 1952. Published in Proceedings (Confidential). 12. "The Growth of the Boundary Layer Behind a Shock Wave." Co-authors, Emmett A. Witmer and Walter Hermann. Published in 50th Anniversary Volume of Fifty Years of Boundary Layer Theory in honor of L. Prandtl. 13. "The Shock Tube in Aerodynamic and Structural Research." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 1954. Co-author, Raymond L. Bisplinghoff. 14. "The Partnership of Science and the Air Force." Aeronautical Engineering Review, April 1955. 15. "Modern Trends in Dynamic Stability Analysis and Experiments," with J. T. VanMeter, E. E. Larrabee, J. Bicknell, T. R. Parsons. AGARD, June 1955. 16. "The Future for Research in Government." Proceedings of Ninth Annual Conference on Administration of Research, September 1955. 17. "Electronics in Aviation." May 1956. Aeronautical Engineering Review, 18. "Science and the Military." Air Force, Magazine of American Airpower, October 1955. 19. "Our Interest in Space and Its Technology." IRE Trans. on Military Electronics, December 1958 20. "Condensation Phenomena in High Speed Flow." Section F of Fundamentals of Gas Dynamics, edited by H. W. Emmons, 21. "Report of the Scientific Advisory Board Ad Hoc Committee 22. "Where We Stand in Space." Published by the U.S. Air The Technology Review, March 1959. (T. A. Boyd Lecture, Ohio 23. "Space Challenges the Engineer." 24. "The Growing Problems in the Space Program." Aero-Space Engineering, April 1959. 25. "The Unknown Cosmos." Chapter 2 of Space Technology, edited by H. S. Seifert, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1959. 26. "Engineering and Science in Space." Aero-Space Engineering, Vol. 18, No. 9, pp. 37, cont. p. 42, September 1959. 27. "The Technical Prospects." Chapter in the AMERICAN ASSEMBLY book Outer Space, January 1962. |