1. William Aaron Nierenberg was an American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and was director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1965 through 1986.
21 Facts About William Nierenberg
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William Nierenberg was a co-founder of the George C Marshall Institute in 1984.
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William Nierenberg went to Townsend Harris High School and then the City College of New York, where he won a scholarship to spend his junior year abroad in France at the University of Paris.
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William Nierenberg went on to graduate work at Columbia, but from 1941 spent the war years seconded to the Manhattan Project, working on isotope separation, before returning to Columbia to complete his PhD.
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In 1948, William Nierenberg took up his first academic staff position, as Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan.
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William Nierenberg was responsible for the determination of more nuclear moments than any other single individual.
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In 1965, William Nierenberg was asked to be director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
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William Nierenberg was director of SIO for 21 years, the longest serving director to date.
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William Nierenberg oversaw the Deep Sea Drilling Project, which produced scientific advances such as the discovery of deep-sea hydrocarbons, the finding that the Mediterranean Sea had once been a closed basin and even a dry seabed, and confirmation that present ocean basins are young.
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William Nierenberg was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1971 and to the governing Council of the Academy in 1979.
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William Nierenberg was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1965, the American Philosophical Society in 1975, and the National Academy of Engineering in 1983.
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In 1981, William Nierenberg became a founding member of the World Cultural Council.
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William Nierenberg served on a large number of panels and advisory committees, primarily after he returned from NATO.
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William Nierenberg served on various panels of the President's Science Advisory Committee.
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William Nierenberg was a member of the National Science Board from 1972 to 1978 and was appointed for another term from November 1982 to May 1988.
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William Nierenberg was a consultant to the National Security Agency, and served on many military-related panels.
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William Nierenberg was a member of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Advisory Council from 1978 to 1982 and served as its first chairman.
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William Nierenberg was Chairman of the OSTP Acid Rain Peer Review Panel, whose report "Acid Rain" was published in 1984.
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William Nierenberg took a strong interest in the problem of global warming.
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William Nierenberg supported this work and intervened personally when research funds for the program were threatened.
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William Nierenberg was appointed by the Academy to chair the committee to produce this report.