User:Tillman/JASON founders, members, past and present
This is a DRAFT, intended for use at JASON (advisory group), to replace the deleted former list at [1]. Also see Talk:Membership list is inappropriate.
JASON founders, members and authors, past and present
[edit]JASON has no official membership list. This list has been compiled from Ann Finkbeiner's book The Jasons [1] and other reliable sources, as cited below. Individuals whose names appear only as authors of JASON studies are in Italic text, since not all study authors are members of JASON. Founders and other notable associated non-members are noted individually.
- Henry Abarbanel, Professor of Physics, University of California, San Diego. Jason member since 1974. [2]
- Michael P. Brenner, Professor of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics, Harvard University [2].[3] [4]
- Sidney D. Drell, theoretical physicist and arms control expert. Draft notes: ? Confirmed active in 2003 Author of a report then, ??) [1]
- Freeman Dyson, physicist and author. Active Jason member in 2003. [1], p. 250
- William Happer, atomic physicist, Princeton University. Jason member from 1976–"present". Chair, JASON Steering Committee, 1987–1990. [5]
- Claire E. Max, Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Jason member since 1983, its first female member. [6] [1], p.144.
- Richard A. Muller, professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Jason member since 1972, [7], active in 2003. [1], p 212.
- Kristofer Pister, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley. JASON member. [8]
- Roy Schwitters, Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at Austin. JASON member since 1996. [9] Chair of the JASON Steering Committee since 2004. [10]
- Herbert York (1921–2009), nuclear physicist. Not a Jason member. York was chief scientist of ARPA and helped to found JASON, 1959-60. [1], pp. 33-38.
Sources
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f Ann Finkbeiner, The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite, Viking/Penguin, 2006, ISBN 0-670-03489-4
- ^ Henry Abarbanel, Research Director for Science and Security, UCSD: "Since 1974, Abarbanel has been a member of JASON, a consulting group to the U.S. Government on technical matters."
- ^ Requirements for ASCI, JASON report, July 9, 2003
- ^ Engineering Microorganisms for Energy Production (2006), JASON report by Michael P. Brenner et al.
- ^ Happer biography at AIP, undated
- ^ Max's CV, May 2011: "1983– Jason Group, Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA"
- ^ Hydrogen Economy, 2003: "Since 1972, he has been a Jason consultant on U.S. national security."
- ^ Kristofer Pister at SWARM Lab, UC Berkeley (no date). "Dr. Pister is known for ... his membership in the JASON Defense Advisory Group."
- ^ Roy Schwitters: "Since 1996, Dr. Schwitters has been a member of JASON..."
- ^ Lecture Series presents Roy Schwitters, 7/19/2011 : "He has been the Chair of the JASON Steering Committee since 2004."