Dr. Emanuel R. Piore, Jewish physicist, electronics specialist and director of research for International Business Machines, has been named by Eisenhower to membership on the President’s Science Advisory Committee. Four other famous scientists, including two Nobel Prize winners, were named to the Committee with Dr. Piore, bringing membership of the Committee to 18.
Dr. Piore was born in Vilna, Russia, in 1908, and has been in the United States since 1917. He received his doctorate at the University of Wisconsin in 1930. His wife is the former Nora Kahn, daughter of Alexander Kahn general manager of the Yiddish newspaper, the Jewish Daily Forward.
Appointed by the President along with Dr Piore were Dr. Glen T. Seaborg, Nobel laureate in chemistry, of the University of California; Dr. John Bardeen, Nobel laureate in physics of the University of Illinois; Dr. Cyrii S. Smith professor of metallurgy at the University of Chicago; and Dr. Britton Chance, a biophysicist, who is director of the Johnson Foundation at the University of Pennsylvania.
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