Frank von Hippel

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Frank Niels von Hippel (born December 26, 1937 in Cambridge (Massachusetts) ) is an American theoretical physicist and analyst in disarmament and security issues and energy issues.

Life

Von Hippel studied physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Bachelor 1959) and received his doctorate in 1962 at Oxford University , where he was Rhodes Scholar . He was a post-doctoral student at the University of Chicago and from 1964 to 1966 at Cornell University . From 1966 to 1970 he was an assistant professor at Stanford University and from 1970 to 1973 at the Argonne National Laboratory . From 1973 to 1974 he was a Resident Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and from 1974 to 1978 he conducted research at Princeton University . He then worked at the Center for Environmental Studies in Princeton, from 1983 as Professor for Public and International Affairs. He is Professor and Co-Director of the Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

From 1993 to 1994 he was Assistant Director of National Security in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. From 1979 to 1984 he was Chairman of the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) and later the FAS Fund. From 2003 to 2005 he chaired the American Physical Society's Panel of Public Affairs .

In the 1970s he was known for analyzes of nuclear energy safety and advised the US Congress and the NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission), among others. But he also dealt with other areas of the energy sector. He was also active early on in matters of disarmament. In the 1980s and 1990s, he dealt in particular with the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons material, for example from the stocks of the former Soviet Union.

Von Hippel is the son of Arthur Robert von Hippel and Dagmar Franck, a daughter of James Franck . His brother Eric von Hippel is a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management . He comes from the East Prussian noble family Hippel .

Prizes and awards

He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Fonts

  • Citizen Scientist , American Institute of Physics, Simon and Schuster 1991
  • with Roald Sagdeev (Editor) Reversing the Arms Race: How to Achieve and Verify Deep Reductions in Nuclear Weapons , New York, Gordon and Breach 1990
  • with Joel Primack Advice and Dissent, Scientists in the Political Arena , Basic Books 1974
  • with Harold A. Feiveson, Bruce G. Blair, Jonathan Dean, Steve Fetter, James Goodby, George N. Lewis, Janne E. Nolan, Theodore Postol The Nuclear Turning Point: A Blueprint for Deep Cuts and De-alerting of Nuclear Weapons , Brookings Institution Press, 1999

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ For example Gray, von Hippel The fuel economy of light vehicles , Scientific American, May 1981
  2. ^ For example, on the effects of a nuclear war with Sidney Drell Limited was nuclear , Scientific American, November 1976
  3. ↑ MIT Professor von Hippel dies at 105; what leader in materials research. Massachusetts Institute of Technology , January 5, 2004, accessed June 26, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Frank von Hippel James Franck. Science and Conscience , Physics Today, May 2010
personal data
SURNAME Hippel, Frank von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hippel, Frank Niels from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Cambridge, Massachusetts