Presidential Science Advisors

From Scienticity

Advisor	Title	Served	Term
Vannevar Bush	D, OSRD	F.D. Roosevelt	1941--1947
Oliver E. Buckley		Truman	1951--1952
Lee A. DuBridge		Truman & Eisenhower	1952--1956
Isidor I. Rabi		Eisenhower	1956--1957
James R. Killian, Jr		Eisenhower	1957--1959
George B. Kistiakowsky		Eisenhower	1959--1961
Jerome B. Wiesner		Kennedy & Johnson	1961--1964
Donald F. Hornig	D, OST	Johnson	1964--1969
Lee A. Dubridge	D, OST	Nixon	1969--1970
Edward E. David, Jr.	D, OST	Nixon	1970--1973
H. Guyford Stever	D, OSTP	Ford	1973--1977
Frank Press	D, OSTP	Carter	1977--1981
Benjamin Huberman	AD, OSTP	Reagan	1981
George A. Keyworth, II	D, OSTP	Reagan	1981--1985
John P. McTague	AD, OSTP	Reagan	1986
Richard G. Johnson	AD, OSTP	Reagan	1986
William R. Graham, Jr	D, OSTP	Reagan	1986--1989
Thomas P. Rona	AD, OSTP	Reagan	1989
D. Allan Bromley	D, OSTP	G.H.W. Bush	1989--1993
John H. Gibbons	D, OSTP	Clinton	1993--1998
Kerri-Ann Jones	AD, OSTP	Clinton	1998
Neal F. Lane	D, OSTP	Clinton	1998--2001
Rosina Bierbaum	AD, OSTP	G.W. Bush	2001
Clifford Gabriel	AD, OSTP	G.W. Bush	2001
John H. Marburger III	D, OSTP	G.W. Bush	2001--present

Notes

• "D" = Director
• "AD" = Acting Director
• "OSRD" = Office of Scientific Research and Development, created in 1941 to oversee the Manhattan project
• "OST" = Office of Science and Technology, established in July 1961
• "OSTP" = Office of Science & Technology Policy, established in June 1973

Sources

• White House Office of Science & Technology Policy
• "Events in the Life of Vannevar Bush", Brown University Computer Graphics Group of the Graphics and Visualization Center, 1996.
• "Vannevar Bush", University of San Diego History Department, c. 2000.