Dr. Press has served as President of National Academy of Sciences and
Chairman of the National Research Council (1981-93); Science Advisor
to the President of the United States and Director, Office of Science
and Technology Policy (1977- 80); Professor of Geophysics and Chairman
of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at MIT; Professor
of Geophysics at California Institute of Technology and Director of
Seismological Laboratory. He is a life member of the Corporation of
MIT; and a board member of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
the Marine Biological Laboratory, and the Monterey Bay Research Institute.
He was the Cecil and Ida Green Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Institution
of Washington (1993-97). Dr. Press has been elected to fellowship in
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Astronomical Society,
the Royal Society (London), the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the
Academie des Sciences (France). He is the recipient of 30 honorary degrees
and was awarded the U.S. National Medal of Sciences, the Vannevar Bush
Award, the Pupin Medal from Columbia University, and the Japan Prize
from the Emperor in 1993. Dr. Press earned a B.S. from the City College
of New York in 1944 and an M.S.(1946) and Ph.D.(1949) from Columbia
University.
