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Facts about National Academy of Sciences and NAE

April 1990

President: Frank Press
Home Secretary: Peter Raven, botanist, eco-enthusiast
Foreign Secretary: James B. Wijngaarden, former William Gordon

Councillors: (newly elected 1990)
Kenneth J. Arrow (NAS, IOM)
Jack Halpern (NAS)
Mary Jane Osborn (NAS)
J. Robert Schrieffer (NAS)

NRC commissions

Commission on geosciences, environment and resources
M. Gordon Wolman
Stephen Rattien, executive director

Ocean Studies Board
Board on Atmospheric Scieeces and Climate
Polar Research Board
Committee on Global Change
Board on Earth Sciences and Resources
Board on Radioactive Waste Management
Water Science and Technology Board, jointly with CETS
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, jointly with CLS
Geophysics Study Committee
Geophysical World Data Centers
[Also U.S. National Committees]

Commission on physical sciences, mathematics and applications (CPSMA)
Norman Hackerman, chairman
Norman Metzger, executive director

Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology
Computer Science and Technology Board
Board on Mathematical Sciences
Board on assessment of NIST Programs
Numerical Data Advisory Board
Space Studies Board
Board on Physics and Astronomy
Committee on Radio Frequencies
Naval Studies Board
Committee on Inertial Confinement Fusion
[Also U.S. National Committees]

as of 1990 April
President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology
D. Allan Bromley, chairman
Norman E. Borlaug, NAS
Solomon J. Buchsbaum, NAS, NAE
Charles Drake
Ralph E. Gomory, NAS,NAE
Bernadine P. Healy (IOM)
Peter W. Likins NAE
Thomas E. Lovejoy
Walter E. Massey
John P. McTague
Daniel Nathans, NAS
David Packard, NAE
Harold T. Shapiro, IOM

CETS = Commission on Engineering and Technical systems

The academy or NRC can initiate some studies.  How about one on
a national computerized library?  The sections of NAS and NAE could
initiate it.