As the decades passed, Stever continued to exert lasting influence on countless scientific endeavors. He became intimately involved in America’s nascent guided missile program-and was to remain a key player in the anti-ballistic missile defense program that heralded the era of the Cold War. Stever returned home committed to serving his country. As a technical intelligence officer, these harrowing wartime years took him from the beachheads of Normandy to the German slave-labor factories responsible for building the V-2 rockets. Born of humble origins and orphaned at an early age, Stever journeyed from a small town in New York to work alongside British comrades who were developing and refining the critical radar technology that was to turn the tide of the war against the Germans. In this thoughtful and candid memoir, Stever recounts an extraordinary life that reveals as much about the man as about the major scientific and technological events of his day. Air Force, one-time Director of the National Science Foundation, professor at MIT for 20 years, member of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering, and science advisor to two presidents…Guy Stever was a central figure in twentieth century science-consistently on the front lines, changing the fate of a nation. Past president of Carnegie Mellon University, former Chief Scientist of the U.S. It was only later, as he walked through the wreckage of wartime London that he began to see science as central to a desperate struggle to survive. Science came into Guy Stever’s life as a pure and peaceful pursuit. Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences.Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education.Help Ordering Information New Releases Browse by Division Browse by Topic
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