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President to Nominate Richard C. Atkinson to be Deputy Director of the National Science Foundation [Position Appointments and Resignations]
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President to Nominate Richard C. Atkinson to be Deputy Director of the National Science Foundation [Position Appointments and Resignations]
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Digitized from Box 8 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MARCH 4, 1975
Office of the White House Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
The President today announced his intention to nominate Richard C.
Atkinson, of Stanford, California, to be Deputy Director of the National
Science Foundation. He will succeed Raymond L. Bisplinghoff who
resigned effective December 30, 1974, to accept the Presidency of the
University of Missouri at Rolla.
Since 1963, Dr. Atkinson has been Professor of Psychology at Stanford,
University. He also has been Associate Director of the Institute for
Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences at Stanford since 1961. In
1973 he became the Associate Dean of the School of Humanities and
Sciences at Stanford. From 1968 to 1974 he was Chairman of the Depart-
ment of Psychology. In 1957 he became an Assistant Professor of
Psychology at the University of California at Los Angeles after having
been a lecturer at Stanford in Applied Mathematics and Statistics Labora-
tories from 1956 to 1957.
Dr. Atkinson was born on March 19, 1929 in Oak Park, Illinois. He
received his Ph. B. degree from the University of Chicago in 1948 and his
Ph. D. degree from Indiana University in 1955.
He was a Guggenheim
Fellow from 1967 to 1968.
Dr. Atkinson is married to the former Rita Loyd and they have one child.
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