Members of the NIST Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (VCAT) from 1901-1987

Name	Title and Organization	Years Served
Albert Ladd Colby	Consulting Engineer in Metallurgy & Secretary Association of American Steel Manufactures	1901-1907
Dr. Elihu Thomson	Electrical Engineer General Electric Co.	1901-1918
Dr. Ira Remsen	Director of Chemical Laboratory & President John Hopkins University	1901-1909
Dr. Henry S. Pritchett	President Massachusetts Institute of Technology; later President Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching	1901-1910
Prof. Edward L. Nichols	Professor of Physics Cornell University	1901-1911
Dr. Robert S. Woodward	President Carnegie Institution of Washington	1908-1912
Prof. Henry M. Howe	Professor of Metallurgy Columbia University	1909-1914
Prof. Arthur G. Webster	Director, Physics Laboratory Clark University	1910-1915
Prof. John F. Hayford	Director, College of Engineering Northwestern University	1912-1921
Prof. Arthur E. Kennelly	Professor of Electrical Engineering Harvard University	1912-1917
John R. Freeman	Consulting Engineer	1915-1924 & 1926-1931
Prof. William A. Noyes	Director, Chemical Laboratory University of Illinois	1915-1920

Prof. Joseph S. Ames	Director, Physical Laboratory John Hopkins University	1917-1922
Prof. Fred W. McNair	President Michigan College of Mines	1921-1923

Prof. Wilder D. Bancroft	Professor of Physical Chemistry Cornell University	1920-1925
Dr. Ambrose Swasey	Chairman of the Board Warner & Swasey Co.	1921-1926
Dr. Samuel W. Stratton	President Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1923-1931
Gano Dunn	President J.G. White Engineering Corporation	1923-1948
Prof. William F. Dunrad	Professor of Mechanical Engineering Leland Stanford University	1924-1929
Dr. Willis R. Whitney	Director General Electric Research Laboratory	1925-1930

Dr. Charles F. Kettering	Director of Research & Vice President General Motors Corp.	1929-1934 & 1947-1952

Dr. Charles L. Reese	Consulting Chemist E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.	1930-1935
Mr. Morris E. Leeds	President Leeds & Northrup Co.	1931-1941

Dr. Karl T. Compton	President Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1931-1947
Dr. William D. Coolidge	Vice President & Director of Research General Electric Co.	1935-1949

Dr. Frank B. Jewett	Vice President of Research & Development American Telephone & Telegraph Co.; and President National Academy of Sciences	1935-1945
Dr. Vannevar Bush	President Carnegie Institution of Washington; and Director Office of Scientific Research & Development	1942-1946

Dr. Harold C. Urey	Research Professor of Chemistry University of Chicago	1945-1950
Dr. Eugene P. Wigner	Metallurgical Laboratory University of Chicago; and Director of Research Clinton Laboratories	1946-1951

Dr. Robert F. Mehl	Director, Metals Research Laboratory Carnegie Institute of Technology	1948-1953
Dr. Donald H. Menzel	Chairman, Department of Astronomy Harvard University; and Associate Director Harvard Observatory	1949-1954

Dr. Detlev W. Bronk	President Johns Hopkins University	1950-1960
Prof. John H. Van Vleck	Dean, Division of Applied Science Harvard University	1951-1956

Dr. Mervin J. Kelly	President Bell Telephone Laboratories	1952-1962
Dr. Clyde E. Williams	Director Battelle Memorial Institute	1953-1958

Dr. Crawford H. Greenewalt	President E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.	1954-1964
Prof. Frederick Seitz	Chairman, Department of Physics University of Illinois	1956-1961

Dr. Lloyd V. Berkner	Scientific Research Administrator; Chairman Space Science Board National Academy of Sciences	1957-1962
Prof. Charles H. Townes	Department of Physics Columbia University; and Consultant Brookhaven National Laboratories	1960-1965

Emanuel R. Priore	Vice President and Chief Scientist International Business Machines Corporation	1962-1972
Elmer W. Engstrom	President Radio Corporation of America	1963-1971

Paul C. Cross	President Mellon Institute	1964-1969
Norman F. Ramsey	Department of Physics Harvard University	1965-1970 & 1982-1987

Robert L. Sproull	Vice President University of Rochester	1966-1971
Jack E. Goldman	Senior Vice President, Research and Development, Xerox Corporation	1969-1974

James C. Fletcher	President University of Utah	1970-1971
Milton Harris	Founder Harris Research Laboratories, Inc.	1971-1973

Arthur M. Bueche	Vice President, Research and Development General Electric Company	1971-1975
H. Guyford Stever	President Carnegie Mellon	1971-1971
John G. Truxal	Dean, College of Engineering State University of New York at Stonybrook	1972-1976
Charles E. Peck	Vice President, Construction Group Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation	1972-1977
Edwin A. Gee	Senior Vice President E.I. du Pont	1973-1978
Robert H. Dicke	Department of Physics Princeton University	1974-1979
W. Dale Compton	Vice President, Research Ford Motor Company	1975-1980
William D. Carey	Executive Officer American Association for the Advancement of Science	1976-1981
William K. Linvill	Department of Engineering Economics Stanford University	1977-1980
Dorothy M. Simon	Vice President Research Avco Corporation	1978-1983
Walter H. Stockmayer	Department of Chemistry Dartmouth College	1979-1984
Russell G. Meyerand Jr.	Vice President, Technology United Technologies Corp.	1980-1985
Bernard M. Oliver	Vice President Hewlett-Packard Company	1981-1986
Robert H. Pry	Consultant Gould Inc.	1983-1988
William D. Manly	Senior Vice President Cabot Corporation	1984-1989*
Arden L. Bement	Vice President, Technical Resources, Service and Technology Department TRW, Inc.	1985-1990*
John G. Bollinger	Dean, College of Engineering University of Wisconsin	1987-1991*



*Membership carried over from the NBS Visiting Committee to the NIST Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology created in 1988.