Gerald F. Tape

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Gerald Tape (left) in the International Atomic Energy Agency (1964)

Gerald Frederick Tape (born May 29, 1915 in Ann Arbor , Michigan , † November 20, 2005 ) was an American physicist .

Gerald Tape graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a bachelor's degree in 1935 and received his master's degree from the University of Michigan in 1936 , where he received his doctorate in nuclear physics in 1940. He then was an instructor at Cornell University until 1942 and at the MIT Radiation Laboratory during World War II , where work was carried out on the development of radar. In 1946 he became an assistant professor and later an associate professor at the University of Illinois .

He was Deputy Director of the Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1950/51 , Vice President and then President of the Associated Universities from 1962 to 1963 , a member of the United States Atomic Energy Commission from 1963 to 1969 and a US delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency from 1973 to 1980 . He was also a member of the US President's Science Advisory Committee from 1969 to 1973 and chaired the CIA's Nuclear Intelligence Panel . From 1970 to 1974 he was on the Defense Science Board and until 1973 as the successor to Robert Sproull its chairman.

In 1986 he became a member of the National Academy of Engineering . In 1987 he received the Enrico Fermi Prize , among other things for his commitment to the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. He also received the Meritorious Civilian Service Award of the Ministry of Defense and the Distinguished Public Service Award of the National Science Foundation awarded. In 1978 he received the Henry DeWolfe Smyth Nuclear Statesman Award .

Tape was a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Engineering .

He had been married to Josephine Waffen since 1939 and had three sons.

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  1. ↑ Birth and career data up to 2004 according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Tape, Gerald F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tape, Gerald Frederick (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Ann Arbor , Michigan
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 2005