Frederick Seitz

Template:Short description {{#invoke:infobox|infoboxTemplate | bodyclass = vcard | bodystyle = {{#if:|width: {{{mainwidth}}}}} | child = {{{embed}}}

| abovestyle = font-size: 100%;

| above = {{#if:|

{{{honorific-prefix}}}

}}

{{#if:|

{{{honorific-suffix}}}

}}

| subheaderstyle = font-size:125%; font-weight:bold;

| subheader = {{#ifeq:{{{embed}}}|yes||{{#if:|{{#if:|

}}{{{native_name}}}{{#if:|

}}}}}}

| image = {{#invoke:InfoboxImage|InfoboxImage|image=File:Dr. Frederick Seitz & Dr. H.A. Kramers Oak Ridge (8365596582).jpg|size=|sizedefault=frameless|upright=1|alt=|suppressplaceholder=yes}} | image2 = {{#invoke:InfoboxImage|InfoboxImage|image=|size=|sizedefault=frameless|upright=1|alt=|suppressplaceholder=yes}} | image3 = {{#invoke:InfoboxImage|InfoboxImage|image=|sizedefault=frameless|upright=1|alt=|suppressplaceholder=yes}} | captionstyle = line-height:normal;padding-top:0.2em; | caption{{#if:|3|{{#if:|2}}}} = Frederick Seitz and H.A. Kramers

| headerstyle = color: #202122; {{#ifeq:{{{embed}}}|yes|background:#eee|background:lavender}}

| data2 = | header3 = {{#if:Template:Birth date San Francisco, California, U.S.Template:Death date and age New York City, New York, U.S.Stanford University (BS)
Princeton University (PhD)|Personal details}} | label4 = Pronunciation | data4 =

| label5 = Born | data5 = {{#invoke:Separated entries|br

|1 = {{#if:|

{{{birthname}}}

}}

|2 = Template:Birth date
|3 = San Francisco, California, U.S.
}}

| label6 = Died | data6 = {{#invoke:Separated entries|br|Template:Death date and age|New York City, New York, U.S.}}

| label7 = {{#ifexpr: Template:Strfind short

   | Manner |{{#if:|Manner|Cause}} }} of death

| data7 = {{#if:||}}

| label8 = Resting place | class8 = label | data8 = {{#invoke:Separated entries|br||}}

| label9 = Citizenship | data9 =

| label10 = Nationality | data10 = {{#switch:{{#invoke:delink|delink|}} | {{#ifeq:Template:Country2nationality|{{#invoke:delink|delink|}}|{{#invoke:delink|delink|}}}} = | {{#ifeq:Template:Find country|England|British}} = | #default = }}

| label11 = Political party | data11 = {{#switch: | = | Democrat | Democratic | Democrat = Democratic | Republican | United States Republican Party | Republican | Republican Party = Republican | Conservative Party | Conservative = Conservative | Labour Party | Labour = Labour | Conservative Party | Conservative = Conservative | Liberal Party | Liberal = Liberal | KMT | Kuomintang | KMT | KMT | Kuomintang | Kuomintang (KMT) | Kuomintang (KMT) = Kuomintang | DPP | DPP | Democratic Progressive Party = Democratic Progressive Party | #default = }}

| label12 = Other political
affiliations | data12 =

| label13 = Height | data13 = {{#if:|Template:Infobox person/height}}

| label14 = Spouse{{#if:|s|{{#invoke:Detect singular|pluralize||likely=(s)|plural=s}}}} | data14 =

| label15 = Domestic partner{{#invoke:Detect singular|pluralize||likely=(s)|plural=s}} | data15 =

| label16 = Relations | data16 =

| label17 = Children | data17 =

| label18 = Parent{{#if:|{{#invoke:Detect singular|pluralize||likely=(s)|plural=s}}|{{#ifexpr:Template:Count > 1|s}}}} | data18 = {{#if:|{{{parents}}}|{{#invoke:list|unbulleted|{{#if:|{{{father}}} (father)}}|{{#if:|{{{mother}}} (mother)}}}}}}

| label19 = Relatives | data19 =

| label20 = Residence{{#invoke:Detect singular|pluralize||likely=(s)|plural=s}} | class20 = {{#if:Template:Death date and age New York City, New York, U.S.||label}} | data20 =

| label21 = Education | data21 = Stanford University (BS)
Princeton University (PhD)

| label22 = Alma mater | data22 =

| label23 = Occupation | data23 =

| label24 = Profession | data24 =

| label25 = Known for | data25 =

| label26 = Salary | data26 =

| label27 = Cabinet | data27 =

| label28 = Committees | data28 =

| label29 = Portfolio | data29 =

| label30 = {{#if:|Civilian awards|Awards}} | data30 =

| label31 = {{{blank1}}} | data31 =

| label32 = {{{blank2}}} | data32 =

| label33 = {{{blank3}}} | data33 =

| label34 = {{{blank4}}} | data34 =

| label35 = {{{blank5}}} | data35 =

| label36 = Signature | data36 = {{#if:|[[File:{{{signature}}}|{{#if:|{{{signature_size}}}|128x80px}}|class=skin-invert|alt=|Frederick Seitz's signature]]}}

| label37 = Website | data37 =

| label38 = Nickname{{#invoke:Detect singular|pluralize||likely=(s)|plural=s}} | data38 =

| header39 = {{#if:|Military service}}

| label40 = Allegiance | data40 =

| label41 = {{#if:||Branch/service}} | data41 =

| label42 = {{#if:||Years of service}} | data42 =

| label43 = {{#if:||Rank}} | data43 =

| label44 = {{#if:||Unit}} | data44 =

| label45 = Commands | data45 =

| label46 = {{#if:||Battles/wars}} | data46 =

| label47 = {{#if:|Military awards|Awards}} | data47 =

| label48 = {{{military_blank1}}} | data48 =

| label49 = {{{military_blank2}}} | data49 =

| label50 = {{{military_blank3}}} | data50 =

| label51 = {{{military_blank4}}} | data51 =

| label52 = {{{military_blank5}}} | data52 =

| below =

{{#if:| As of {{{date}}}{{#if:|, {{{year}}}}}}}

{{#if:|Source: [{{{source}}}]}}

}}{{#if:|{{#ifeq:{{#ifeq:|no|yes}}|yes||}} }}{{#if:|{{#ifeq:{{#ifeq:|no|yes}}|yes||}} }}{{#if:|{{#if:||{{#ifeq:{{#ifeq:|no|yes}}|yes||}}}} }}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:Infobox officeholder with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| regexp1 = 1blankname[%d]* | regexp2 = 1namedata[%d]* | regexp3 = 2blankname[%d]* | regexp4 = 2namedata[%d]* | regexp5 = 3blankname[%d]* | regexp6 = 3namedata[%d]* | regexp7 = 4blankname[%d]* | regexp8 = 4namedata[%d]* | regexp9 = 5blankname[%d]* | regexp10 = 5namedata[%d]* | allegiance | alma_mater | regexp11 = alongside[%d]* | alt | regexp12 = ambassador_from[%d]* | regexp13 = appointed[%d]* | regexp14 = appointer[%d]* | regexp15 = assembly[%d]* | awards | battles | battles_label | birth_date | birth_name | birth_place | birthname | regexp16 = blank[%d]* | bodyclass | branch | branch_label | cabinet | candidate | caption | categories | regexp17 = chancellor[%d]* | children | citizenship | regexp18 = co%-leader[%d]* | commands | committees | regexp19 = constituency[%d]* | regexp20 = constituency_AM[%d]* | regexp21 = constituency_MP[%d]* | regexp22 = convocation[%d]* | regexp23 = country[%d]* | regexp24 = data[%d]* | date | death_cause | death_date | death_manner | death_place | demo | regexp25 = deputy[%d]* | regexp26 = district[%d]* | education | election_date | embed | father | regexp28 = firstminister[%d]* | footnotes | regexp29 = governor[%d]* | regexp30 = governor_general[%d]* | regexp31 = governor%-general[%d]* | height | honorific_prefix | honorific-prefix | honorific_suffix | honorific-suffix | image | image name | image_name_alt | image_size | imagesize | image_upright | incumbent | regexp32 = jr/sr[%d]* | regexp33 = jr/sr and state[%d]* | known_for | regexp34 = leader[%d]* | regexp35 = legislature[%d]* | regexp36 = lieutenant[%d]* | regexp37 = lieutenant_governor[%d]* | mainwidth | regexp38 = majority[%d]* | regexp39 = majority_floor_leader[%d]* | regexp40 = majority_leader[%d]* | regexp41 = majorityleader[%d]* | mawards | regexp42 = military_blank[%d]* | regexp43 = military_data[%d]* | regexp44 = minister[%d]* | regexp45 = minister_from[%d]* | regexp46 = minority_floor_leader[%d]* | regexp47 = minority_leader[%d]* | regexp48 = minorityleader[%d]* | regexp49 = module[%d]* | regexp50 = monarch[%d]* | mother | name | nationality | native_name | native_name_lang | nickname | nocat | regexp51 = nominator[%d]* | nominee | occupation | regexp52 = office[%d]* | opponent | regexp53 = order[%d]* | otherparty | parents | regexp54 = parliament[%d]* | regexp55 = parliamentarygroup[%d]* | partner | party | party_election | portfolio | regexp56 = preceded[%d]* | regexp57 = preceding[%d]* | regexp58 = predecessor[%d]* | regexp59 = premier[%d]* | regexp60 = president[%d]* | regexp61 = primeminister[%d]* | regexp62 = prior_term[%d]* | profession | pronunciation | rank | rank_label | relations | relatives | residence | resting_place | resting_place_coordinates | restingplace | restingplacecoordinates | regexp63 = riding[%d]* | runningmate | salary | serviceyears | serviceyears_label | signature | signature_alt | signature_size | smallimage | smallimage_alt | source | speaker | speaker_office | spouse | spouses | regexp64 = state[%d]* | regexp65 = state_assembly[%d]* | regexp66 = state_delegate[%d]* | regexp67 = state_house[%d]* | regexp68 = state_legislature[%d]* | regexp69 = state_senate[%d]* | regexp70 = status[%d]* | regexp71 = suboffice[%d]* | regexp72 = subterm[%d]* | regexp73 = succeeded[%d]* | regexp74 = succeeding[%d]* | regexp75 = successor[%d]* | regexp76 = taoiseach[%d]* | regexp77 = term[%d]* | regexp78 = term_end[%d]* | regexp79 = term_label[%d]* | regexp80 = term_start[%d]* | regexp81 = termend[%d]* | regexp82 = termlabel[%d]* | regexp83 = termstart[%d]* | regexp84 = title[%d]* | unit | unit_label | regexp85 = vicegovernor[%d]* | regexp86 = vicepremier[%d]* | regexp87 = vicepresident[%d]* | regexp88 = viceprimeminister[%d]* | regexp89 = assuming[%d]* | website | width | year }}

Frederick Seitz (July 4, 1911 – March 2, 2008) was an American physicist, a pioneer of solid state physics, and climate change denier. Seitz was the 4th president of Rockefeller University from 1968 to 1978, and the 17th president of the National Academy of Sciences from 1962 to 1969. Seitz was the recipient of the National Medal of Science, NASA's Distinguished Public Service Award, and other honors.

He founded the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and several other material research laboratories across the United States.<ref name=PhysicsToday>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead link</ref> Seitz was also the founding chairman of the George C. Marshall Institute.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Background and personal lifeEdit

Seitz was born in San Francisco on July 4, 1911. His mother was also from San Francisco and his father, after whom he was named, was born in Germany.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Seitz graduated from Lick-Wilmerding High School in the middle of his senior year, and went on to study physics at Stanford University obtaining his bachelor's degree in three years,<ref name=PhysicsToday /> graduating in 1932.<ref name=TDo /> He married Elizabeth K. Marshall on May 18, 1935.<ref>Current biography yearbook, Volume 17, H.W. Wilson Company, 1957. p564</ref>

Seitz died March 2, 2008, in New York.<ref name=NYTobit>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was survived by a son, three grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.<ref name=NYTobit />

Early careerEdit

File:Wigner–Seitz cell.svg

Construction of a Wigner–Seitz primitive cell.

Seitz moved to Princeton University to study metals under Eugene Wigner,<ref name=PhysicsToday /> gaining his PhD in 1934.<ref name=NYTobit /><ref name="thesis-seitz-1934">Template:Cite thesis</ref> He and Wigner pioneered one of the first quantum theories of crystals, and developed concepts in solid-state physics such as the Wigner–Seitz unit cell<ref name=PhysicsToday /> used in the study of crystalline material in solid-state physics.

Academic careerEdit

After graduate studies, Seitz continued to work on solid state physics, publishing The Modern Theory of Solids in 1940, motivated by a desire to "write a cohesive account of the various aspects of solid-state physics in order to give the field the kind of unity it deserved". The Modern Theory of Solids helped unify and understand the relations between the fields of metallurgy, ceramics, and electronics. He was also a consultant on many World War II-related projects in metallurgy, radiation damage to solids and electronics amongst others. He, along with Hillard Huntington, made the first calculation of the energies of formation and migration of vacancies and interstitials in copper, inspiring many works on point defects in metals.<ref name=PhysicsToday /> The scope of his published work ranged widely, also covering "spectroscopy, luminescence, plastic deformation, irradiation effects, physics of metals, self-diffusion, point defects in metals and insulators, and science policy".<ref name=PhysicsToday />

Early in his academic career, Seitz served on the faculty of the University of Rochester (1935–37)<ref name=TDo /> and after an interlude as a research physicist at General Electric Laboratories (1937–39)<ref name=TDo /> he was at the University of Pennsylvania (1939–1942) and then the Carnegie Institute of Technology (1942–49).<ref name=TDo />

From 1946 to 1947, Seitz was director of the training program in atomic energy at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He was appointed professor of physics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1949, becoming chairman of the department in 1957 and dean and vice-president for research in 1964. Seitz also served as an advisor to NATO.<ref name=NYTobit /> From 1962 to 1969 Seitz served as president of the United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS), in a full-time capacity from 1965.<ref name=NAS>United States National Academy of Sciences, 7 March 2008, Past NAS President Frederick Seitz Dies at 96 Template:Webarchive</ref> As NAS president he initiated the Universities Research Association, which contracted with the Atomic Energy Commission to construct the world's largest particle accelerator at the time, Fermilab.<ref name=PhysicsToday />

He was the president of Rockefeller University from 1968 to 1978 during which he helped to launch new research programs in molecular biology, cell biology, and neuroscience as well as creating a joint MD-PhD program with Cornell University.<ref name=NYTobit /> He retired from Rockefeller University in 1979, when he was made President Emeritus.

Consultancy careerEdit

After Seitz published a paper on the darkening of crystals, DuPont asked him in 1939 for help with a problem they were having with the stability of chrome yellow. He became "deeply involved" in their research efforts.<ref>Frederick Seitz, Norman G. Einspruch, Electronic genie: the tangled history of silicon. University of Illinois Press, 1998. pp. 128–29</ref> Among other things, he investigated the possible use of non-toxic silicon carbide as a white pigment.<ref name="aipOral">Template:Cite interview</ref> Seitz was a director of Texas Instruments (1971–1982) and of Akzona Corporation (1973–1982).<ref name=who />

Shortly before his 1979 retirement from Rockefeller University, Seitz began working as a permanent consultant for the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, advising their medical research program<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> until 1988.<ref name=NYTobit /> Reynolds had previously provided "very generous" support for biomedical work at Rockefeller.<ref>Frederick Seitz, 29 May 1979 Presentation to International Advisory Committee of RJ Reynolds Template:Webarchive</ref> Seitz later wrote that "The money was all spent on basic science, medical science," and pointed to Reynolds-funded research on mad cow disease and tuberculosis.<ref name=NYTobit /> Nonetheless, later academic studies of tobacco industry influence concluded that Seitz, who helped allocate $45m of Reynolds' research funding,<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> "played a key role... in helping the tobacco industry produce uncertainty concerning the health impacts of smoking."<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> According to a tobacco industry memo from 1989, Seitz was described by an employee of Philip Morris International as "quite elderly and not sufficiently rational to offer advice."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 1984 Seitz was the founding chairman of the George C. Marshall Institute,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=indepinst>The Independent Institute, Research Fellow: Frederick Seitz. Retrieved 15 September 2010.</ref> and was its chairman until 2001.<ref name="archive1">George C. Marshall Institute, {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=PBS>Template:Cite interview</ref> The Institute was founded to argue for President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative,<ref name=Oreskes>Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, 10 August 2010, "Distorting Science While Invoking Science Template:Webarchive", Science Progress</ref> but "in the 1990s it branched out to become one of the leading think tanks trying to debunk the science of climate change."<ref>Daily Telegraph, 14 March 2008, Frederick Seitz</ref><ref>The Institute was described as a "central cog in the denial machine" in a Newsweek cover story on global warming. – Template:Cite news</ref> A 1990 report co-authored with Institute co-founders Robert Jastrow and William Nierenberg "centrally informed the Bush administration's position on human-induced climate change".<ref>George E. Marcus, Paranoia within reason: a casebook on conspiracy as explanation, University of Chicago Press, 1999. p.117</ref> The Institute also promoted environmental skepticism more generally. In 1994, the Institute published a paper by Seitz titled Global warming and ozone hole controversies: A challenge to scientific judgment. Seitz questioned the view that CFCs "are the greatest threat to the ozone layer".<ref name="Conversationwith">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In the same paper, commenting on the dangers of secondary inhalation of tobacco smoke, he concluded "there is no good scientific evidence that passive inhalation is truly dangerous under normal circumstances."<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Seitz was a central figure amongst global warming deniers.<ref name=NYTobit /><ref>According to Merchants of Doubt, Seitz was a central climate change denial figure.</ref> He was the highest-ranking scientist among a band of doubters who, beginning in the early 1990s, resolutely disputed suggestions that global warming was serious threat.<ref name=herts2006 /> Seitz argued that the science behind global warming was inconclusive and "certainly didn't warrant imposing mandatory limits on greenhouse-gas emissions".<ref name=herts2006>Hertsgaard, Mark (May 2006). While Washington Slept Vanity Fair.</ref> In 2001 Seitz and Jastrow questioned whether global warming is anthropogenic.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Seitz signed the 1995 Leipzig Declaration and, in an open letter inviting scientists to sign the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine's global warming petition, called for the United States to reject the Kyoto Protocol.<ref name=NYTobit /> The letter was accompanied by a 12-page article on climate change which followed a style and format nearly identical to that of a contribution to Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a scientific journal,<ref name=envirco2>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> even including a date of publication ("October 26") and volume number ("Vol. 13: 149–164 1999"), but was not actually a publication of the National Academy of Science (NAS). In response the United States National Academy of Sciences took what the New York Times called "the extraordinary step of refuting the position of one [of] its former presidents."<ref name=NYTobit /><ref name=NAS200498>Template:Cite press release</ref><ref name="Science-1998">Template:Cite journal</ref> The NAS also made it clear that "The petition does not reflect the conclusions of expert reports of the Academy."<ref name=NAS200498 />

Seitz worked extensively with Fred Singer during his consultancy career for tobacco and oil corporations in matters of health and climate change, respectively.<ref name = Oresk />

PublishingEdit

Seitz wrote a range of scientific books in his field, including The Modern Theory of Solids (1940) and The Physics of Metals (1943). Later he co-authored books such as the Theory of Lattice Dynamics in the Harmonic Approximation (1971) and Solid State Physics.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The latter, begun in 1955, with David Turnbull, reached 60 volumes by 2008, with Seitz remaining an active editor until volume 38 in 1984.<ref name=PhysicsToday /> Solid State Physics continues to be published by Elsevier.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> After his retirement he co-authored a book on global warming, published via the George C. Marshall Institute he chaired. He published his autobiography in 1994. Other works included biographies of American physicist Francis Wheeler Loomis (1991) and Canadian inventor Reginald Fessenden (1999), a history of silicon, and a history of the US National Academy of Sciences (2007).

CriticismEdit

In the early 1970s, Seitz became unpopular for his support of the Vietnam war, a position which most of his colleagues on the President's Science Advisory Committee did not share. In the late 1970s, Seitz also parted company with his scientific colleagues on questions of nuclear preparedness. Seitz was committed to "a muscular military strengthened by the most technologically advanced weaponry", while the scientific community generally supported arms limitations talks and treaties. Seitz was also ardently anti-communist and his support for aggressive weapons programs was a reflection of this.<ref name = Oresk>Oreskes, Naomi and Conway, Erik M. (2010). Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, Bloomsbury, pp. 25–29.</ref>

In their book Merchants of Doubt, science historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway state that Seitz and a group of other scientists fought the scientific evidence and spread confusion on many of the most important issues of the 20th and 21st centuries like harmfulness of tobacco smoke, acid rain, CFCs, pesticides and global warming. Seitz said that American science had become "rigid", and his colleagues had become closed-minded and dogmatic. According to Oreskes and Conway, Seitz used normal uncertainties of scientific evidence to spread doubt about the harmfulness of tobacco smoke.<ref name="Oresk" />

Seitz was also a principal organizer of the infamous Oregon Petition, where numerous signatories claimed that there was no evidence that greenhouse gases were responsible for global warming. Despite Seitz being a past President of the US National Academy of Sciences, the NAS issued a press release stating "The petition project was a deliberate attempt to mislead scientists and to rally them in an attempt to undermine support for the Kyoto Protocol. The petition was not based on a review of the science of global climate change, nor were its signers experts in the field of climate science."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Journalists subsequently found that the identities of the vast majority of signatories could not be verified,<ref>Brown, Joe. 700 Club anchor touted global warming skeptics' petition reportedly signed by non-scientists, fictitious characters. Media Matters, 14th Feb 2006. https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2006/02/14/700-club-anchor-touted-global-warming-skeptics/134878</ref> because the petition's organizers had no process for identity authentication. Further, the supposed scientific article that claimed to refute global warming (and which accompanied the petition) was in fact a non-peer reviewed article from the "Journal of the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons", which was published by Arthur Robinson, the petition's co-organizer.<ref>Template:Cite news Updated December 6, 2017.</ref> This journal advocates scientifically discredited viewpoints such as claiming that there is no connection between the HIV virus and AIDS, and is not indexed in PubMed.

Oreskes and Conway were critical of Seitz's involvement in the tobacco industry. They stated that Seitz stood against the scientific consensus that smoking was dangerous to people's health, and helped to create confusion and doubt on this issue.

Awards and recognitionEdit

Seitz was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1946.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1952, serving as its President from 1962 to 1969.<ref name=NAS /> He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1962.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He received the Franklin Medal (1965). In 1973 he was awarded the National Medal of Science "for his contributions to the modern quantum theory of the solid state of matter."<ref name=NYTobit /> He also received the United States Department of Defense Distinguished Service Award; the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Distinguished Public Service Award; and the Compton Award, the highest honor of the American Institute of Physics.<ref name=NYTobit /> In addition to Rockefeller University, 31 universities in the US and abroad awarded Seitz honorary degrees.<ref name=RU>Rockefeller University, 4 March 2008, Frederick Seitz – Lounsberry director and past president – dies at 96. Template:Webarchive</ref> He was also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.<ref name=RU />

Seitz served on a range of boards of charitable institutions, including (as chair) John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1976–1983<ref name=who />) and Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation,<ref name=TDo /> and (as trustee) American Museum of Natural History (from 1975<ref name=who />) and Institute of International Education.<ref name=TDo>Rockefeller University, Biography of Frederick Seitz Template:Webarchive, November 1985</ref> He was also a board member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.<ref name=TDo /> Other appointments to a range of national and international agencies included serving on the Defense Science Board and serving as chair of the US delegation to the United Nations Committee on Science and Technology.<ref name=TDo /> He also served on the board of trustees of Science Service, now known as Society for Science & the Public, from 1971 to 1974.

In 1981, Seitz became a founding member of the World Cultural Council.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Positions heldEdit

Academic

Carnegie Tech, head of the physics department (1946–?)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

|CitationClass=web }}</ref>

University of Illinois, professor of physics (1949–1964)<ref name=PhysicsToday />
American Institute of Physics, chairman (1954–1959)<ref name=PhysicsToday />
Academic Press, editor (1955–1984)<ref name=PhysicsToday />
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, (1959–1960)<ref name=PhysicsToday />
American Physical Society, chairman (1961)<ref name=PhysicsToday />
United States National Academy of Sciences, president (1962–1969)<ref name=NAS />
Rockefeller University, president emeritus (1968–1978)<ref name=PhysicsToday />
Physica Status Solidi B, editorial board member<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

|CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Private sector

George C. Marshall Institute, co-founder, chairman (1984–2001)<ref name=indepinst /><ref name="archive1" /><ref name=PBS />
Richard Lounsbery Foundation, president (1995–1997),<ref name=who>The International Who's Who 2004, Europa Publications</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

|CitationClass=web }}</ref> chairman (since 1998)<ref>Frederick Seitz, chairman of the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, at the 1998 Global Assembly of the World Academy of Art and Sciences, Vancouver BC, Canada</ref><ref name="Lounsbery_2008">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Science and Environmental Policy Project, chair (?–?)<ref name="SEPP">Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) Board of Directors Template:Webarchive, accessed 19 Sep 2010</ref>
Advancement of Sound Science Center, member of advisory board<ref>New York Times, 26 April 1998, Industrial Group Plans to Battle Climate Treaty.</ref>

BooksEdit

Frederick Seitz, A matrix-algebraic development of the crystallographic groups, Princeton University, 1934
Frederick Seitz, The modern theory of solids, McGraw-Hill, 1940
Frederick Seitz, The physics of metals, McGraw-Hill, 1943
Robert Jastrow, William Aaron Nierenberg, Frederick Seitz, Global warming: what does the science tell us?, George C. Marshall Institute, 1990
Robert Jastrow, William Aaron Nierenberg, Frederick Seitz, Scientific perspectives on the greenhouse problem, Marshall Press, 1990
Frederick Seitz, Francis Wheeler Loomis: August 4, 1889 – February 9, 1976, National Academy Press, 1991
Template:Cite book
Nikolaus Riehl and Frederick Seitz, Stalin's Captive: Nikolaus Riehl and the Soviet Race for the Bomb (American Chemical Society and the Chemical Heritage Foundations, 1996) Template:ISBN.

This book is a translation of Nikolaus Riehl's book Zehn Jahre im goldenen Käfig (Ten Years in a Golden Cage) (Riederer-Verlag, 1988); but Seitz wrote a lengthy introduction. It contains 58 photographs.