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Harvey Brooks
Harvey Brooks
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in 1940 under the direction of Nobel Laureate John Van Vleck. He was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows from 1940–1942 and a staff member in the Harvard underwater sound laboratory from 1941 to 1945.
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From 1975 to 1980 he co-chaired the largest and most complex committee effort ever undertaken by the National Research Council, generating the prescient and influential study of America's energy future, Energy in Transition 1985-2010. Harvey's prodigious output of scholarly articles and chapters on science and technology policy, extending over five decades, conveyed a striking proportion of the seminal ideas that shaped this field.
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Lawrence Award of the Atomic Energy Commission, the Philip Hauge Abelson Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and many other honors awards including six honorary doctorates. For all of his erudition, experience, and distinction, though, Harvey was absolutely without arrogance or affectation.
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