Eugene Bertram Skolnikoff

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Eugene Bertram Skolnikoff (born August 29, 1928 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) is an American electrical engineer , political scientist and university professor

Life

Eugene Bertram Skolnikoff, son of Benjamin H. Skolnikoff and his wife Betty Turoff Skolnikoff, began studying electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) after finishing school , which he completed in 1950 with a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc. Electrical Engineering) as well as a Master of Science (M.Sc. Electrical Engineering). He then worked in 1950 as a research assistant at the Electrical Engineering Department at Uppsala University in Sweden . He then took up a degree in political science at the University of Oxford , which he completed in 1952 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) and 1955 with a Master of Arts (MA). After his return to the USA, he worked for the US Army Security Agency (ASA) in Arlington County from 1955 to 1957 , as a systems analyst at the Institute for Defense Analyzes (IDA) between 1957 and 1958, and then from 1958 to 1963 as a special assistant for science and technology at the White House Chief of Staff .

After Skolnikoff had acquired a Doctor of Philosophy ( Ph.D. ) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965, he took over a professorship in political science there. In addition, he taught from 1965 to 1972 as a lecturer (adjunct professor) at the Tufts University belonging Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy , and was further from 1967 to 1973 Chairman and President of the Science and Public Policy Studies Group . He was also active between 1967 and 1969 as secretary of a section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and between 1969 and 1970 in Geneva as a visiting professor at the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace . He was then head of the political science department at MIT between 1970 and 1974. He became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1971 . and also served as director of the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1972 and 1987.

Eugene Skolnikoff was also a member of the Advisory Board of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences from 1973 to 1977 and a member of the AAAS Commission on Public Political Science from 1973 to 1974. In 1977 he held the visiting professorship at the University of Edinburgh, named after clothing entrepreneur Montague Burton , and was also a special advisor on science and technology policy to the White House between 1977 and 1981 during the tenure of US President Jimmy Carter . In addition, he was a member of the board of trustees of the German Marshall Fund between 1979 and 1987, and from 1980 to 1986 he was chairman of the board of trustees of the foundation established to promote transatlantic relations. He was also a member of the board of trustees of the United Nations Research Institute For Social Development (UNRISD) between 1979 and 1985 and was a member of the US delegation to the UN meeting on social development in 1979. He was also a member of the board of directors of General Dynamics armaments company SACO Defense from 1984 to 1985 and a member of the Scientific Commission on Public Engineering of the American Association for the Advancement of Science from 1984 to 1989. In 1987 he was a visiting scholar at Yale University and a member of the State Department's Science and Technology Advisory Board, and in 1989 he was a visiting scholar at Balliol College, University of Oxford.

Most recently, between 1998 and 2005, Skolnikoff was chairman of the United Nations University's Institute for New Technologies INTECH (Institute New Technology) in Maastricht and in 2000 he held the Michael Dukakis visiting professorship for public policy at the American College of Thessaloniki .

His marriage to Winifred S. Weinstein on September 15, 1957 resulted in two sons and a daughter.

Publications

  • Science, technology, and American foreign policy , MIT Press, Boston 1967
  • The elusive transformation. Science, technology, and the evolution of international politics , Princeton University Press, Princeton 1993, ISBN 0-6910-8631-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1950-1999 by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
personal data
SURNAME Skolnikoff, Eugene Bertram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American electrical engineer, political scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania