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

James DeNaut
2018-2026
Sea Court Capital

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