Hertz Director 1972-2006

Arthur R. Kantrowitz, was Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, Dartmouth College. He earned his B.S., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in physics at Columbia University. He taught aeronautical engineering and engineering physics at Cornell for ten years, and then founded and was CEO of the Avco Everett Research Laboratory. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Astronautical Society; an honorary fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; and was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. He was a Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellow, and recipient of the Roosevelt Medal of Honor for Distinguished Service in Science. He was an honorary trustee of the University of Rochester, an honorary life member of the Board of Governors of The Technion, and an honorary professor of the Huazhong Institute of Technology in Wuhan, China. He held 21 patents and authored or coauthored some 200 scientific and professional papers and articles. He was a director of the Hertz Foundation and a former member of the advisory board to television's popular "Nova" program. He served our government on advisory boards to the Ford White House, the Department of Commerce, NASA, the General Accounting Office, and the National Science Foundation.