Former Members of the Board of Directors
Charles G. Abbot
Smithsonian Institution
1928-1947
Arthur S. Adams
American Council on Education
1953-1959
Frederick R. Adler
Adler & Co.
1984-1988
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
Patricia C. Barron*^
Quaker Chemical and Teleflex
2003-2012
Boris A. Bakhmeteff
Lion Match Co., Inc.
1947-1951
Joseph W. Barker*^
Research Corporation
1934-1975
Lars Bildsten*^
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
2014-2023
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
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
James M. Gentile
Research Corporation
2005-2013
Frederick A. Goetze
Columbia University
1912-1950
Hamilton Hadley*
United States Trust Co. of New York
1931-1957
Nancy Haegel
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
2018-2023
Robert B. Hallock*
University of Massachusetts Amherst
2003-2015
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
Robert Holland Jr.*
Williams Capital Partners
1997-2010
Jonathan Hook
Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation
2011 - 2017
Elon H. Hooker^
Hooker Electrochemical Co.
1912-1938
Gayle Jackson*^
Energy Global Inc.
2004 -2017
James A. Jacobson*
The Chase Manhattan Bank
1947-1979
Suzanne Jaffe*
President S.D.J. Associates
1990- 2013
Hennen Jennings
Mining Engineer
1912-1920
John W. Johnstone, Jr.*
Olin Corp.
1987-1998
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
Seth Lederman
Columbia University
2007-2011
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
Colin 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
Elizabeth McCormack*^
Bowdoin College
2009 – 2018
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
Patrick S. Osmer*^
The Ohio State University
2002-2014
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
Jack Pladziewicz
Research Corporation
2013-2014
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
Robert Shelton
Research Corporation
2014-2017
L. Donald Shields
Southern Methodist University
1983-1986
George L. Shinn*
Merrill Lynch & Co.
1975-1987
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
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
David L. Wenner*
Retired
2011-2020
Alexander Wetmore
Smithsonian Institution
1947-1953
Milton C. Whitaker
U.S. Industrial Chemicals, Inc.
1918-1920
Laurel L. Wilkening
University of California, Irvine
1991-2003
Francis S. Williams*
F. Eberstadt & Co.
1963-1973
Robert R. Williams*
Research Corporation,
1951-1959
Joan B. Woodard*
Sandia National Laboratories,
2014-2023
* Denotes Emeriti
^ Denotes Board Chair