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Sidney Drell is a theoretical physicist who works on high-energy and elementary-particle processes, as well as on technical issues of arms control and national security.
Since 1960, Drell has been active as an advisor to the executive and legislative branches of the U.S. government on issues of national security and science policy. He is the author of In the Shadow of the Bomb: Physics and Arms Control (1993), co-author with McGeorge Bundy and William J. Crowe, Jr. of Reducing Nuclear Danger (1993), and co-author with James Goodby of The Gravest Danger: Nuclear Weapons (2003).
Biography
Drell is a professor emeritus in the Physics Department at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Until retiring in 1998, he served as deputy director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. He is also a founding member of JASON, a group of academic scientists who consult for the government on issues of national importance, and acts as a consultant to the Los Alamos National Laboratory. From 1993 to 2001, Drell served as a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.
Drell received an A.B. (1946) from Princeton University and an M.A. (1947) and a Ph.D. (1949) from the University of Illinois.
Last updated January 1, 2005.
Published on November 1, 1984
