Present Activities:

• Member, President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
• Member, Non-Proliferation Advisory Panel, U.S. Government
• Adjunct Professor, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
• Member, JASON Division, The MITRE Corporation
• Chairman, University of California President's Council on the National Laboratories
• Member, Council on Foreign Relations, New York
• Member, Board of Governors, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
• Member, Board of Directors, "Annual Reviews, Inc."
• Member, Board of Directors, International Science Foundation
• Advisor, Ploughshares Fund, San Francisco

Professional Societies:

• American Physical Society (Fellow) -- President, 1986
• National Academy of Sciences
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• American Philosophical Society
• Academia Europaea
• Phi Beta Kappa
• Sigma Xi
• Phi Kappa Phi

Research Interests:

• Theoretical Physics: Elementary Particle Physics and Quantum Theory
• National security and arms control

Awards and Honors:

• Fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 1984--1989
• Ernest Orlando Lawrence Memorial Award for research in Theoretical Physics, 1972
• University of Illinois Alumni Award for Distinguished Service in Engineering (1973); Alumni Achievement Award, 1988
• Guggenheim Fellowship, 1961--1962 and 1971--1972
• Richtmyer Memorial Lecturer to the American Association of Physics Teachers, San Francisco, California, 1978
• Leo Szilard Award for Physics in the Public Interest, 1980 presented by the American Physical Society
• 1983 Honoree of the Natural Resources Defense Council for work in arms control
• Lewis M. Terman Professor and Fellow, Stanford University (1979--1984)
• 1993 Hilliard Roderick Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Science, Arms Control, and International Security
• 1994 Woodrow Wilson Award, Princeton University, for "Distinguished Achievement in the Nation's Service"
• 1994 Co-recipient of the "Ettore Majorana -- Erice -- Science for Peace Prize"
• 1995 John P. McGovern Science and Society Medalist of Sigma Xi
• 1996 Gian Carlo Wick Commemorative Medal recognizing outstanding publications in the field of mathematical physics.

Recent Activities (Government):

• 1995, Chair, JASON Study for DOE on Nuclear Testing
• 1994, Chair, JASON Study for DOE on Science-Based Stockpile Stewardship
• 1990-1993, Chairman, Technology Review Panel, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
• 1971-1993, Member, Board of Directors, The Arms Control Association, Washington, D.C.
• 1991-1993, Member, Director's Advisory Committee, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• 1990-1991, Chairman, House Armed Services Committee Panel on Nuclear Weapons Safety
• 1975-1991, Consultant, Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress
• 1974-1985, Member, High Energy Physics Advisory Panel, U.S. Department of Energy, Chairman 1974-82; Chairman of HEPAP
• Subpanel on Superconducting Super-Collider Physics (1990) and on the Vision for the Future of High Energy Physics (1994)
• 1978-1982, Consultant, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
• 1977-1982, Consultant, Office of Science and Technology Policy
• 1973-1981, Consultant, National Security Council
• 1969-1981, Consultant, U. S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
• 1978-1980, Member, Energy Research Advisory Board, U. S. Department of Energy
• 1974-1976, Member, U. S. Defense Science Board Task Force
• 1966-1970, Member, President's Science Advisory Committee
• 1960-1973, Consultant, Office of Science and Technology, Executive Office ofthe President,and Member (or Chairman) of PSAC Panels on national security problems

Recent Activities (Academic):

• 1995 Kovler Lecturer, U. of Chicago
• 1991, First Colonel Tom Johnson Visiting Scholar at West Point Military Academy
• 1989-1996, Adjunct Professor, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
• 1988-1993, Member, Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government
• 1984--1991, Member, Aspen Strategy Group
• 1977--1990, Member, American Committee on U.S.-Soviet Relations (formerly Committee on East-West Accord) [Member, Science Advisory Committee]
• 1983--1989, Co-Director, Stanford Center for International Security and Arms Control
• Spring, 1988 Hans Bethe Lecturer, Cornell University
• 1969--1986, Executive Head, Theoretical Physics, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
• Spring 1984, I. I. Rabi Visiting Professor, Columbia University
• 1984, 1990 Visiting Professor, Rockefeller University Spring
• 1983 Danz Lecturer, University of Washington, Seattle
• 1974--1983 Member, Board of Trustees, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey (currently emeritus)
• Spring 1979, Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford University
• Spring 1975, Schrodinger Visiting Professor, University of Vienna, Austria
• 1972, Amos de Shalit Lecturer, Weizmann Institute
• Spring 1972, Visiting Professor, University of Rome, Italy
• Spring 1971, Dupont Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania
• Fall 1962 and 1970, Visiting Professor and Loeb Lecturer, Harvard University
• 1991-1993, Chairman, International Advisory Committee of the University of California's Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC)
• 1985-1990, Member, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Advisory Board
• 1971-1993, Member, Board of Directors, The Arms Control Association, Washington, D.C.

Personal Data:

Born September 13, 1926 - Atlantic City, New Jersey
Married (Harriet J. Stainback, Minter City, Mississippi)
Children (Daniel W., Persis S., and Joanna H.)

Selected Publications:

• Three books and numerous papers in theoretical physics
• Facing the Threat of Nuclear Weapons (University of Washington Press, 1983; 2nd Edition 1989)
• Sidney Drell on Arms Control, edited by Kenneth W. Thompson (University Press of America, 1988)
• The Reagan Strategic Defense Initiative: A Technical, Political, and Arms Control Assessment (with P. J. Farley and D. Holloway) (Ballinger, 1984)
• Sakharov Remembered: A Tribute by Friends and Colleagues (American Institute of Physics, 1991) Edited with Sergei Kapitsa
• In the Shadow of the Bomb: Physics and Arms Control (American Institute of Physics, 1993)
• Reducing Nuclear Danger with McGeorge Bundy and William J. Crowe, Jr. (Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1993)

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