Notable Accomplishments
- President of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1981-1993)
- Chairman of the National Research Council (1981-1993)
- Science Advisor to the President of the United States, Office of Science and Technology Policy (1977-1981)
- Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy (1977-1981)
- Professor of Geophysics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Chairman of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Professor of Geophysics at California Institute of Technology and Director of the Caltech Seismological Laboratory
- Life Member of the Corporation of MIT
- Board member of the Rockefeller University, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the Marine Biological Laboratory, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
- Member of the advisory council of CRDF Global
- Named three times most influential American scientist in annual surveys by U.S. News and World Report
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