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Former Members of the NSB Executive Secretaries/ Officers Sophie B 42 Former Members of the NSB Executive Secretaries/ Officers Sophie B. Aberle* Henry Eyring Peter D. Lax Mina S. Rees Lloyd Trefethen Roger Adams Peter T. Flawn K. June Lindstedt-Siva James A. Reyniers* April 1951–October 1953 Perry L. Adkisson William A. Fowler Robert F. Loeb* Joseph M. Reynolds E. Vernice Anderson Annelise G. Anderson Marye Anne Fox Saunders Mac Lane Frank H.T. Rhodes October 1953 –September 1981 Richard C. Atkinson Edwin B. Fred* James B. Macelwane, S.J. Donald B. Rice Warren J. Baker Ernestine Friedl Shirley Malcolm Stuart A. Rice Margaret Windus W. O. Baker David M. Gates James G. March Alexander Rich September 1981–August 1985 Chester I. Barnard* Robert F. Gilkeson Walter E. Massey Ian M. Ross Thomas Ubois Robert P. Barnes* T. Keith Glennan Katherine E. McBride William W. Rubey August 1985–May 1992 Jay V. Beck Julian R. Goldsmith Kevin McCann Jane A. Russell Marta Cehelsky Arden L. Bement, Jr. Mary L. Good William D. McElroy Edwin E. Salpeter May 1992–present Frederick P. Bernthal Laurence M. Gould Donald H. McLaughlin* Roland W. Schmitt R. H. Bing Sanford D. Greenberg Edward J. McShane Howard A. Schneiderman Raymond L. Bisplinghoff Phillip Griffiths William H. Meckling Glenn T. Seaborg Craig C. Black Paul M. Gross* Eve L. Menger Paul B. Sears Erich Bloch Norman Hackerman George W. Merck Benjamin S. Shen Lewis M. Branscomb William W. Hagerty Frederick A. Middlebush* L. Donald Shields D. Allan Bromley T. Marshall Hahn, Jr. William F. Miller Howard E. Simmons, Jr. Detlev W. Bronk* John C. Hancock Claudia I. Mitchell-Kernan John B. Slaughter Harvey Brooks Philip Handler John H. Moore Charles P. Slichter Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. Clifford M. Hardin Edward L. Moreland* Frederick E. Smith Mary I. Bunting Anna J. Harrison Robert S. Morison John I. Snyder, Jr. Bernard F. Burke Leland J. Haworth Joseph C. Morris* Robert M. Solow W. Glenn Campbell Hubert Heffner Marston Morse* Athelstan F. Spilhaus Herbert E. Carter Theodore M. Hesburgh, CSC Grover E. Murray E. C. Stakman* Robert A. Charpie Charles E. Hess Samuel M. Nabrit Earl P. Stevenson Rufus E. Clement Roger W. Heyns Homer A. Neal H. Guyford Stever Jewel Plummer Cobb John R. Hogness William A. Nierenberg Julius A. Stratton Rita R. Colwell James B. Holderman Kenneth L. Nordtvedt Richard H. Sullivan James B. Conant* John E. Hopcroft Jaime Oaxaca Edward L. Tatum Lloyd M. Cooke Charles L. Hosler Morrough P. O’Brien F. P. Thieme Gerty T. Cori* William V. Houston Russell D. O’Neal Ralph W. Tyler Eugene H. Cota-Robles William N. Hubbard, Jr. Mary Jane Osborn Ernest H. Volwiler F. Albert Cotton William F. Hueg, Jr. Joseph M. Pettit Eric A. Walker John W. Davis* George D. Humphrey* Harvey Picker Alan T. Waterman Thomas B. Day Orren W. Hyman* E. R. Piore Warren Weaver Robert H. Dicke Charles F. Jones Audrey A. Potter* Douglas M. Whitaker Herbert D. Doan Thomas F. Jones, Jr. James L. Powell Malcolm M. Willey Charles Dollard* Michael Kasha Frank Press Charles E. Wilson* Daniel C. Drucker Edward A. Knapp David V. Ragone Patrick H. Yancey, S. J.* Lee A. DuBridge* Marian E. Koshland Simon Ramo Richard N. Zare James J. Duderstadt Neal F. Lane Norman C. Rasmussen James H. Zumberge Conrad A. Elvehjem Donald Langenberg* Peter H. Raven *Charter member.
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