"Science Advisor To Pres Ford" Guyford Stever Signed 4X6 Card JG Autographs COA

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"Science Advisor To President Ford" Guyford Stever Hand Signed 4X6 Card.
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Horton Guyford Stever
(October 24, 1916 – April 9, 2010) was an
American
administrator
, physicist, educator, and engineer. He was a director of
National Science Foundation
(from February 1972 to August 1976)  Stever was raised in
Corning, New York
, principally by his maternal grandmother. He played football in high school. He graduated from
Colgate University
with an undergraduate degree in
physics
and then from
California Institute of Technology
in 1941 with a
Ph.D.
in physics. He joined the staff of the radiation lab at
MIT
. In 1942 he began serving the military as a civilian scientific liaison officer based in
London, England
until the end of
World War II
. After
D-Day
he was sent to
France
several times to study
German
technology. He returned to MIT after the war, serving as
associate dean
of engineering there from 1956 to 1959 and then as a department head. In 1965 he became the fifth
President
of
Carnegie Mellon University
(and the first under that name, in 1967), a position he held until 1972. Stever House, a dorm on Carnegie Mellon's campus is named for him. During this period, he was also chairman of the aeronautics and space engineering board for the
National Academy of Engineering
advising NASA and other Federal agencies.
He also served as the director of the National Science Foundation from 1972 until 1976. Between 1976 and 1977 he was President
Gerald Ford
's
Science Advisor
. He also served on the board of trustees of Science Service, now known as
Society for Science & the Public
, from 1982 to 2006. Stever received an LL.D. from
Bates College
in 1977. In 1997, he received the
Vannevar Bush Award
from the National Science Board. Stever died at his home in
Gaithersburg, Maryland
on April 9, 2010.