From the editor.Gerald Tape, who served on the Science Service Board of Trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. for more than 30 years, died Nov. 20. As a physicist during World War II, he worked on developing radar technology. He was later the deputy director of the Brookhaven National Laboratory Brookhaven National Laboratory, scientific research center, at Upton (town of Brookhaven), Long Island, N.Y. It was founded in 1947 by Associated Universities, a management corporation sponsored by nine eastern U.S. universities. , a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee In 1951 President of the United States Harry S. Truman established the Science Advisory Committee as part of the Office of Defence Mobilization (ODM). As a direct response to the launches of the Soviet artificial satellites, Sputnik 1 and Sputnik 2, on October 4 and November 3, , the chair of the Central Intelligence Agency's Nuclear Intelligence Panel, a commissioner to the Atomic Energy Commission Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), former U.S. government commission created by the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 and charged with the development and control of the U.S. atomic energy program following World War II. , and the president of Associated Universities Inc., which manages laboratories across the country. He served as the U.S. representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency International Atomic Energy Agency: see Atomic Energy Agency, International. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) International organization officially founded in 1957 to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy. from 1973 until he retired in 1980. Among his awards are the Department of Energy's Fermi Award for a distinguished career, the Defense Department's Meritorious Civilian Service Award, and the National Science Foundation's Distinguished Public Service Award. We are grateful for Gerald Tape's long commitment to Science Service and for his enthusiasm for Science News. The organization benefited greatly from his intelligence, diplomacy, and grace. --JULIE ANN MILLER, EDITOR IN CHIEF |
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