Alan Tower Waterman

Alan Tower Waterman
1st Director of the
National Science Foundation
In office
1951–1963
President
Succeeded byLeland J. Haworth
Personal details
Born(1892-06-04)June 4, 1892
Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York
DiedNovember 30, 1967(1967-11-30) (aged 75)
Washington, D.C.
Nationality
Alma materPrinceton
AwardsPublic Welfare Medal (1960)
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1963)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsU. of Cincinnati
Yale
Office of Scientific Research and Development
Office of Naval Research
NSF
ThesisOn the positive ionization from certain hot salts, together with some observations on the electrical properties of molybdenite at high temperatures (1916)
Doctoral advisorOwen Willans Richardson
Waterman is seated at left; to his right are Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty, Dr. S. Douglas Cornell and Dr. Alan Shapley. Standing: Dr. J. Wallace Joyce and Dr. Athelstan Spilhaus. Announcement of plans for the building and launching of the world's first man-made satellite, July 29, 1955. (NASA)

Alan Tower Waterman (June 4, 1892 – November 30, 1967[1]) was an American physicist.

  1. ^ "Waterman, Alan Tower, 1892-1967 - Social Networks and Archival Context". snaccooperative.org. Retrieved September 9, 2021.

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