Research Corporation for Science Advancement

About RCSA

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Board of Directors from 1912 to Present

Current Board of Directors

Patricia C. Barron is a corporate director and is retired from the position of clinical associate professor at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University. She is chair of the Audit Committee and a member of the Executive Committee and the Science Advancement Committee.

G. Scott Clemons is managing director of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. He is a member of the Finance Committee and the Science Advancement Committee.

Peter K. Dorhout is vice provost for graduate studies and assistant vice president for research at Colorado State University. He is chair of the Science Advancement Committee and a member of the Governance and Nominating committees and the Executive Committee.

James M. Gentile is president & CEO of Research Corporation for Science Advancement. He is a member of the Executive Committee and the Science Advancement Committee.

Robert B. Hallock is a distinguished professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is a member of the Audit Committee and the Science Advancement Committee.

Robert Holland, Jr. is an industry partner with Williams Capital Partners. He is a member of the Governance and Nominating committees, the Finance Committee and the Science Advancement Committee.

Brent L. Iverson is a professor of chemistry & biochemistry at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a member of the Finance Committee and the Science Advancement Committee.

Gayle P.W. Jackson is president of Energy Global, Inc. She is chair of the board, chair of the Executive Committee and a member of the Science Advancement Committee.

Suzanne D. Jaffe is president of S.D.J. Associates. She is chair of the Finance Committee, a member of the Executive Committee, the Governance and Nominating committees and the Science Advancement Committee.

Seth Lederman is Associate Professor at Columbia University and a founder of biopharmaceutical companies; Vela, Targent, Krele and Plumbline Pharmaceuticals. He is a member of the Audit Committee, the Science Advancement Committee and the President's Advisory Council.

Elizabeth McCormack is a professor of physics at Bryn Mawr College.  She is a member of the Science Advancement Committee.

Patrick S. Osmer is vice provost for graduate studies and dean of the Graduate School of Ohio State University. He is chair of the Governance and Nominating committees and a member of the Science Advancement Committee.


Directors Emeriti



                                               Charles G. Abbot
Smithsonian Institution
1928-1947

Arthur S. Adams
American Council on Education
1953-1959

Frederick R. Adler
Adler & Co.
1984-3/1988

Herbert S. Adler
Halcyon/Alan B. Slifka Management Co., LLC
1997-2006 

Leo H. Baekeland
General Bakelite Co.
1916-1918

R. Palmer Baker, Jr.
Lord, Day & Lord
1980-1989

Boris A. Bakhmeteff
Lion Match Co., Inc.
1947-1951

Joseph W. Barker
Research Corporation
1934-1975
Elected Director Emeritus & "Honorary Chairman for Life" 1975

Isaiah Bowman
Johns Hopkins University
1934-1946

Edwin S. Burdell
The Cooper Union
1953-1960

Vannevar Bush
Carnegie Institution of Washington
1939-1946

Carlyle G. Caldwell
National Starch & Chemical Corp.
1973-1985

W. Gibson Carey, Jr.
The Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co.
1947-1947

Leonard Carmichael
Smithsonian Institution
1953-1973 

J. J. Carty
American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
1917-1924

James S. Coles
Bowdoin College
1958-1985

Paul J. Collins
Citibank, NA.
1977-1988
Elected Director Emeritus 1989

Karl T. Compton
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1933-1953 

Howard Coonley
The Walworth Co. 1935-1963

Stuart B. Crampton
Williams College
1989 - 2008

Harvey N. Davis
Stevens Institute of Technology
1931-1952

Burt N. Dorsett
College Retirement Equities Fund
1972-1990

Michael P. Doyle
Trinity University
1989-2002

William L. Dudley
Vanderbilt University
1912-1912

T. Coleman du Pont
E.I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Co.
1912-1930

Joseph C. Elgin
Princeton University
1963-1977

Conrad A. Elvehjem
University of Wisconsin
1960-1962 

Herman Frasch
Union Sulphur Co.
1914-1914

John D. Garrison
Lord, Day & Lord
1962-1980

Robert M. Gavin, Jr.
Macalester College
1991-2003

Roger E. Gay
The Bristol Brass Corp.
1951-1957 

Frederick A. Goetze
Columbia University
1912-1950 


 

Hamilton Hadley
United States Trust Co. of New York
1931-1957

Arthur A. Hamerschlag
Research Corporation
1921-1927

Henry T. Heald
Illinois Institute of Technology
1947-1958 

Carl W. Hedberg
Research-Cottrell, Inc.
1957-1963

Elwood Hendrick
Arthur D. Little, Inc.
1921-1930

William G. Hendrickson
American Home Products Corp.
1975-1989

J. William Hinkley
Research Corporation
1957-1967

Harold L. Hoefman
Link-Belt Co.
1950-1970

James A. Jacobson
The Chase Manhattan Bank
1947-1979

Hennen Jennings
Mining Engineer
1912-1920

John W. Johnstone, Jr.
Olin Corp.
1987-1998

Elon H. Hooker
Hooker Electrochemical Co.
1912-1938

Otto H. Kahn
Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
1915-1934

James R. Killian, Jr.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1957-1960

Charles W. H. Kirchhoff
Mining Engineer
1912-1914

Theodore E. Knowlton
Consulting Engineer
1918-1920

George F. Kunz
Tiffany & Co.
1914-1922 

Benjamin B. Lawrence
Consulting Engineer
1912-1921

Ivy L. Lee
Publicist
1925-1934

Isaac N. Lewis
Colonel, United States Army (Retired)
1923-1931

Arthur D. Little
Arthur D. Little, Inc.
1912-1921

Alfred Lee Loomis
Scientist
1930-1933; 1948-1959

Cohn B. Mackay
University of New Brunswick, Canada
1960-1991

Margaret L. A. MacVicar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1985-1990  

William C. McClellan
Union Electric Co. of Missouri
1944-1950

T.C. Meadows
American Agricultural Chemical Co.
1912-1915

Dave Hennen Morris
Counselor-at-Law
1923-1944

Robert W. Morse
Case Western Reserve University
1970-1988

Pauline Newman
FMC Corporation
1982-1984

W. H. Nichols
Nichols Copper Co.
1913-1914 

Frederick H. Osborn
Business Administrator
1929-1937 

Harold S. Osborne
American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
1951-1963


William Barclay Parsons
Consulting Engineer
1914-1917

John C. Pennie
Counselor-at-Law
1921-1922

George W. Perkins
J.P. Morgan & Co.
1915-1920

Arthur E. Pew, Jr.
Sun Oil Co.
1952-1957

M. Bernard Philipp
Counselor-at-Law
1912-1916

John B. Pine
Counselor-at-Law
1912-1922 

Howard A. Poillon
Research Corporation
1920-1950

Mark S. Reardon, 3rd
Counselor-at-Law
1912-1912

S. Dillon Ripley
Smithsonian Institution
1965-1977

John P. Schaefer
Research Corporation 1974-2007

Charles H. Schauer
Research Corporation
1968-1984

John E. Schork
Research-Cottrell, Inc.
1979-1980 

Lloyd N. Scott
Counselor-at-Law
1912-1915; 1923-1947

Frederick Seitz
National Academy of Sciences
1966-1983

L. Donald Shields
Southern Methodist University
1983-1986

George L. Shinn
Merrill Lynch & Co.
1975-1987
Elected Director Emeritus 1987

Lloyd P. Smith
Aeronutronic Division of the Ford Motor Co.
1960-1975

Orin R. Smith
Engelhard Corp.
1985-1988

Horace B. Speakman
Ontario Research Foundation
1935-1965
Elected Director Emeritus 1965

Charles A. Stone
Stone & Webster, Inc.
1912-1921; 1929-1941

Whitney A. Stone
Stone & Webster, Inc.
1941-1951

James J. Storrow
Lee, Higginson & Co.
1912-1918

Elihu Thomson
Electrical Engineer
1912-1913

Clinton Paul Townsend
Counselor-at-Law
1925-1931 

Byron K. Trippet
Wabash College
1960-1964

Joan Selverstone Valentine
University of California, Los Angeles
1986-2004

Calvin A. VanderWerf
Hope College
1965-1988

Charles D. Walcott
Smithsonian Institution
1912-1927

G. King Walters
Rice University
1977-2004

Robert E. Waterman
Member, Williams-Waterman Fund
1963-1972

Theodore M. Welp
Tucson Electric Power Co.
1984-1989

Alexander Wetmore
Smithsonian Institution
1947-1953

Milton C. Whitaker
U.S. Industrial Chemicals, Inc.
1918-1920