Frederick Seitz
Frederick Seitz is a physicist who helped build the atomic bomb during World War II.[1] Seitz is a former president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and acted as Chief scientist at the department of transportation during Ronald Reagan's presidency. Seitz was a leading figure in the development of earth observation satellites and was the first director of the National Weather Satellite Service. Seitz was associated with the George C. Marshall Institute. Between 1979-1985 Fred Seitz directed a program for the tobacco company R.J. Reynolds.[2] In 2006 an article in Vanity Fair by Mark Haertsgaard alleged that Seitz had helped RJ Reynolds to distribute $45 million in research funding during the 1970s and 1980s for medical studies that 'just happened to find no ill effects from smoking cigarettes' and served the interests of the tobacco industry.[3]
History
- 1950s Science advisor to NATO
- 1960S President of the National Academy of Sciences
- 1970s President of the Rockerfeller University
- 1979-? Director of a scientific research program for R.J. Reynolds[4]
Affiliations
George C. Marshall Institute | R.J. Reynolds
Notes
- ↑ Oreskes, N., & Conway, E., (2010), Merchants of Doubt, Bloomsbury Press: London, pp. 5
- ↑ Oreskes, N., & Conway, E., (2010), Merchants of Doubt, Bloomsbury Press: London, pp. 5
- ↑ Frederick Seitz, Frederick Seitz, the Telegraph, 14-March-2008
- ↑ Oreskes, N., & Conway, E., (2010), Merchants of Doubt, Bloomsbury Press: London, pp. 10
