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Space Science in the Twenty-First Century

Imperatives for the Decades 1995 to 2015

Overview

Membership

STEERING GROUP

Thomas M. Donahue, University of Michigan, Chairman
Don L. Anderson, California Institute of Technology
D. James Baker, Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc.
Robert W. Berliner, Pew Scholars Program, Yale University
Bernard F. Burke, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A. G. W. Cameron, Harvard College Observatory
George B. Field, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University
Herbert Friedman, Naval Research Laboratory
Donald M. Hunten, University of Arizona
Francis S. Johnson, University of Texas at Dallas
Robert Kretsinger, University of Virginia
Stamatios M. Krimigis, Applied Physics Laboratory
Eugene H. Levy, University of Arizona
Frank B. McDonald, NASA Headquarters
John E. Naugle, Chevy Chase, Maryland
Joseph M. Reynolds, The Louisiana State University
Frederick L. Scarf, TRW Systems Park
Scott N. Swisher, Michigan State University
David A. Usher, Cornell University
James A. Van Allen, University of Iowa
Rainer Weiss, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dean P. Kastel, Study Director
Ceres M. Rangos, Secretary

TASK GROUP ON EARTH SCIENCES

Don L. Anderson, California Institute of Technology, Chairman
D. James Baker, Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc.
Moustafa T. Chahine, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Adam M. Dziewonski, Harvard University
William M. Kaula, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Michael McElroy, Harvard University
Berrien Moore III, University of New Hampshire
Ronald G. Prinn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
S. Ichtiaque Rasool, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Roger Revelle, University of California at San Diego
Donald L. Turcotte, Cornell University

Paul F. Uhlir, Staff Officer
Anne L. Pond, Secretary

TASK GROUP ON PLANETARY AND LUNAR EXPLORATION

Donald M. Hunten, University of Arizona, Chairman
Arden L. Albee, California Institute of Technology
David C. Black, NASA Headquarters
Jacques Blamont, C.N.E.S.
William V. Boynton, University of Arizona
Robert A. Brown, Space Telescope Science Institute
A.G.W. Cameron, Center for Astrophysics
Thomas M. Donahue, University of Michigan
Larry W. Esposito, University of Colorado
Ronald Greeley, Arizona State University
Eugene H. Levy, University of Arizona
Harold Masursky, U.S. Geological Survey
David D. Morrison, University of Hawaii at Manoa
George W. Wetherill, Carnegie Institution of Washington

Paul F. Uhlir, Staff Officer
Anne L. Pond, Secretary

TASK GROUP ON SOLAR AND SPACE PHYSICS

Frederick Scarf, TRW, Chairman
Roger M. Bonnet, Agence Spatiale Europeene
Guenter E. Brueckner, Naval Research Laboratory
Alexander Dessler, Marshall Space Flight Center
William B. Hanson, University of Texas at Dallas
Thomas Holzer, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Francis S. Johnson, University of Texas at Dallas
Stamatios Krimigis, Applied Physics Laboratory
Louis Lanzerotti, Bell Laboratories
John Leibacher, National Solar Observatory
Robert MacQueen, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Carl E. McIlwain, University of California, San Diego
Andrew Nagy, University of Michigan
Eugene N. Parker, University of Chicago
George Paulikas, Aerospace Corporation
Raymond G. Roble, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Christopher Russell, University of California at Los Angeles
James Van Allen, University of Iowa

Richard C. Hart, Staff Officer
Carmela J. Chamberlain, Secretary

TASK GROUP ON ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS

Bernard Burke, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chairman
James Roger Angel, University of Arizona
Jacques Beckers, NOAO Advanced Development Program
Andrea Dupree, Center for Astrophysics
Carl E. Fichtel, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
George Field, Center for Astrophysics
Riccardo Giacconi, Space Telescope Science Institute
Jonathan Grindlay, Center for Astrophysics
Martin Harwit, Cornell University
Frank Low, University of Arizona
Frank McDonald, NASA Headquarters
Dietrich Muller, University of Chicago
Minoru Oda, ISAS
Klaus Pinkau, Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
Kenneth A. Pounds, University of Leicester
Irwin Shapiro, Center for Astrophysics
Susan Wyckoff, Arizona State University

Richard Hart, Staff Officer
Carmela J. Chamberlain, Secretary

TASK GROUP ON FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY

Rainer Weiss, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Co-Chairman
Joseph M. Reynolds, The Louisiana State University, Co-chairman
Peter Bender, University of Colorado
A. L. Berlad, University of California
Russell Donnelly, University of Oregon
Freeman Dyson, The Institute of Advanced Study
William M. Fairbank, Stanford University
Robert Hofstadter, Stanford University
George Homsy, Stanford University
James Larger, University of California
John E. Naugle, Consultant, Chevy Chase, Maryland
Rene Pellat, CNES
Remo Ruffini, Universita di Roma
Dudley Saville, Princeton University
John Robert Schrieffer, University of California

Dean P. Kastel, Staff Director
Ceres M. Rangos, Secretary

TASK GROUP ON LIFE SCIENCES

Scott Swisher, Michigan State University, Co-Chairman
David Usher, Cornell University, Co-Chairman
Meinrat Andreae, Florida State University
Stanley Awramik, University of California, Santa Barbara
Robert Berliner, Pew Scholars Program, Yale University
William DeCampli, Stanford Medical Center
James Ferris, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Robert Fowles, University of Utah
Andrew Knoll, Harvard University
Robert Kretsinger, University of Virginia
Lynn Margulis, Boston University
Raymond Murray, Michigan State University
Quentin Myrvik, Wake Forest University
John Oro, University of Houston
Tobias Owen, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Donald D. Trunkey, Oregon Health Services University
G. Donald Whedon, International Shrine Hospital
David White, Florida State University
Richard J. Wurtman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Richard Young, RCA Government Services

Joyce M. Purcell, Staff Officer
Judith L. Estep, Secretary

SPACE SCIENCE BOARD

Thomas M. Donahue, University of Michigan, Chairman
Philip H. Abelson, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Roger D. Blandford, California Institute of Technology
Larry W. Esposito, University of Colorado
Jonathan E. Grindlay, Center for Astrophysics
Donald N. B. Hall, University of Hawaii
Andrew P. Ingersoll, California Institute of Technology
William M. Kaula, NOAA
Harold P. Klein, The University of Santa Clara
John W. Leibacher, National Solar Observatory
Michael Mendillo, Boston University
Robert O. Pepin, University of Minnesota
Roger J. Phillips, Southern Methodist University
David M. Raup, University of Chicago
Christopher T. Russell, University of California, Los Angeles
Blair D. Savage, University of Wisconsin
John A. Simpson, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago
George L. Siscoe, University of California, Los Angeles
L. Dennis Smith, Purdue University
Darrell F. Strobel, Johns Hopkins University
Byron D. Tapley, University of Texas at Austin

Dean P. Kastel, Staff Director
Ceres M. Rangos, Secretary

COMMISSION ON PHYSICAL SCIENCES, MATHEMATICS, AND RESOURCES

Norman Hackerman, Robert A. Welch Foundation, Chairman
George F. Carrier, Harvard University
Dean E. Eastman, IBM Corporation
Marye Anne Fox, University of Texas
Gerhart Friedlander, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Lawrence W. Funkhouser, Chevron Corporation (retired)
Phillip A. Griffiths, Duke University
J. Ross Macdonald, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Charles J. Mankin, Oklahoma Geological Survey
Perry L. McCarty, Stanford University
Jack E. Oliver, Cornell University
Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Princeton University Observatory
William D. Phillips, Mallinckrodt, Inc.
Denis J. Prager, MacArthur Foundation
David M. Raup; University of Chicago
Richard J. Reed, University of Washington
Robert E. Sievers, University of Colorado
Larry L. Smarr, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Edward C. Stone, Jr., California Institute of Technology
Karl K. Turekian, Yale University
George W. Wetherill, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Irving Wladawsky-Berger, IBM Corporation

Raphael G. Kasper, Executive Director
Lawrence E. McCray, Associate Executive Director

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