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Sidney D. Drell
Professor of Theoretical Physics (Emeritus)
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University
Area(s) of expertise: Technical issues of national security and arms control, including related ethical issues, and the obligations of scientists as a community
Language(s) spoken: English
Contact Information:
650-926-2664
drell@slac.stanford.edu
More Information: www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/do/people/drell.html

PIO Contact: Earl Lane
202-326-6431
elane@aaas.org
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Sidney D. Drell is Professor of Theoretical Physics (Emeritus) at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University. He was also the Deputy Director until retiring in 1998. He did his undergraduate studies at Princeton University and his graduate work at U. of Illinois. In 1984 he was awarded a prize fellowship of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Since 1998 he has also been a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. Dr. Drell is a physicist and arms control specialist. Since 1960 he has been active as an advisor to the Executive and Legislative branches of government on national security and defense technical issues. He is a founding member of JASON, a group of academic scientists who consult for the government on issues of national importance, a member of the Advisory Committee to the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA/DOE), and acts as a consultant to the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is currently serving on the Advisory Council on the U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation (CRDF). Dr. Drell has received numerous awards, including the Leo Szilard Award for Physics in Science, Arms Control, and International Security in the Public Interest from the American Physical Society; the Hilliard Roderick Prize of the AAAS in Science, Arms Control and International Security; the Woodrow Wilson Award from Princeton University; the Gian Carlo Wick Commemorative Medal Award at the ICSC-World Laboratory; the Distinguished Associate Award of the Department of Energy; and the first I. Ya. Pomeranchuk Prize, awarded by the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, with Professor A. I. Akhiezer (Kharkov, Ukraine). He was named the Linus Pauling lecturer and medalist at Stanford University, and has been awarded the University of California Presidential Medal; the Enrico Fermi Award, which presented in 2000 on behalf of the President of the United States and the Secretary by the U.S. Department of Energy; an Honorary Doctors Degree from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel; the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, which is the U.S. intelligence community's highest honor; the William O. Baker Award; and the Heinz R. Pagels Human Rights of Scientists Award, New York Academy of Sciences.

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