Oral history interview with David Z. Robinson [electronic resource], 1998.

Biographical Note

Scientist

Scope and Contents

Childhood: Montreal; Harvard University: A.B., 1946, A.M., 1947, Ph.D. Chemical Physics, 1949; Americans for Democratic Action, Vice President of Cambridge chapter; Assistant Director for Research Study, Baird Associates, 1949-1959; Office for Naval Research, London, 1959-1960; member of the Optical Society to the International Commission for Optics; Office of the Scientific Advisor to the President, Science Advisory Committee, Communications Satellite Act, Air Traffic Control, White House-Kremlin hotline, liaison to the Ramsey Panel, liaison to National Science Foundation, 1961-1967; Vice President for Academic Affairs, New York University, student activities during Vietnam War era, 1967-1970; Vice President, Carnegie Corporation, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1970-1980; Board of Trustees of City University of New York, 1976-1981; Executive Vice President of Carnegie Corporation, 1981-1985; Executive V.P. Treasurer, Carnegie Corporation, 1988-1997; Director, Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, Government, 1988-1997; panel member, President's Science Advisory Committee on Hijacking; member, Naval Research Advisory Committee; member, Governor Hugh Carey's Task Force of Higher Education; reminiscences of colleagues.

Subjects

• Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government.
• Carnegie Corporation of New York.
• Grele, Ronald J., interviewer.
• Hearing, Brenda, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Physicists--Interviews.
• Robinson, David Z., 1927---Interviews.
• Science and state--United States.
• United States. President's Science Advisory Committee.

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