Memorandum, Recommendations of the Atomic Energy Commission for the General Advisory Committee

Recommendation of the Atomic Energy Commission for the General Advisory Committee TRUMAN - James B. CONANT, President of Harvard University. Chairman, National Defense Research Committee. Dr. Conant has had a leading role in the policy formation of the Atomic Energy Project since its earliest days. Lee A. DU BRIDGE, President of the California Institute of Technology. War-time Director, Radiation Laboratory of OSRD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. DuBridge is an outstanding experimental physicist with broad experience, and distinguished scientific leader not connected with the Atomic Energy Project previously. personal Enrico FERMI, Winner of Nobel prize in physics. Professor of Physics, University of Chicago. An outstanding experimental and theoretical physicist who has played the leading role scientifi- cally in the realization of the nuclear chain reaction. J. R. OPPENHEIMER, Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of California. War-time Director, Los Alamos Laboratories of the Manhattan Project. Member, State Department Board of Consultants responsible for the Report on the International Control of Atomic Energy. An outstanding theoretical physicist with the broadest insight into all the problems in the development of atomic energy. I. I. RABI, Winner of Nobel prize in physics. Professor of physics, Columbia University. War-time Associate Director, Radi- ation Laboratory of OSRD at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology, and consultant for the Los Alamos Laboratories of the Manhattan Project. An outstanding experimental physicist and a recognized leader whose counsel has been widely sought on scien- tific questions. Hartley ROWE, Vice President and Chief Engineer, United Fruit Company. In charge of Transportation Equipment Development for the OSRD; Technical Advisor to SHAEF; engineering advisor and consultant to the Manhattan Project. Mr. Rowe is widely recog- nized for his experience and achievements in engineering. Glenn T. SEABORG, Professor of Chemistry, University of California. A chief radio-chenist for the Manhattan Project at the Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago. Outstanding for his work in the discovery and elucidation of plutonium and other elements beyond uranium.