Solomon J. Boxwood

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Solomon Jan Buchsbaum , called Sol Buchsbaum, (born December 4, 1929 in Stryj , † March 8, 1993 in Morristown (New Jersey) ) was a Polish-American physicist and science manager. He was already under Richard Nixon on the Advisory Committee on Science and Technology of the US President and chaired it under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush . In addition, from 1979 he was Vice President of Bell Laboratories , responsible, among other things, for technology systems.

Buchsbaum lost his parents in the Holocaust in Poland and survived (with his sister) because he was hidden in a Catholic orphanage. As a teenager, he emigrated to Canada, where he worked in a factory and, despite not attending school, won a scholarship in physics and mathematics at McGill University . In 1952 he earned his bachelor's degree and his master's degree in 1953, and in 1957 he received his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the thesis Interaction of Electromagnetic Radiation with a High Density Plasma . From 1958 he was at Bell Laboratories , where he dealt with plasma and solid state physics and held eight patents.

From 1972 to 1977 he was on the Defense Science Board. He has also served on the boards of directors at MIT, Stanford University , Rand Corporation , Argonne National Laboratory , Draper Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratories . Under President Jimmy Carter , he chaired the Energy Research Advisory Board and was an advisor to the Strategic Defense Initiative .

In 1962, Buchsbaum became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . He received the National Medal of Science in 1986 and was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering . In 1973 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

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