Harvey Brooks

Harvey Brooks (August 5, 1915 – May 28, 2004) was an American physicist, "a pioneer in incorporating science into public policy",

notable for helping to shape national science policies and who served on science advisory committees in the administrations of Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson.

Brooks was also notable for his contributions to the fundamental theory of semiconductors and the band structure of metals. and the Council on Foreign Relations.

He received the Ernest O. Lawrence Award of the Atomic Energy Commission, the Philip Hauge Abelson Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Chronology 1915: born in Cleveland, Ohio on August 5 1937: B.S. in mathematics, Yale University 1940: Ph.D in physics, Harvard University 1945: married to Helen G. Lathrop on October 20 1940–1946: faculty member, Harvard University 1946–1950: Associate Head of the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, General Electric 1950–1957: Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, Harvard University 1957–1975: Dean, the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS), Harvard University 1961: Elected to the American Philosophical Society 1962: Elected to the National Academy of Sciences 2004: death