Clifford C. Furnas

Clifford C. Furnas

Clifford Cook Furnas (October 24, 1900 – April 27, 1969) was an author, Olympic athlete, scientist, expert on guided missiles, university president, and public servant. He was first cousin of the author Evangeline Walton.

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Olympic career

  • 1920 Olympic Games, Antwerp, Belgium[1]
  • 1922 Big 10 Conference Medal, for best combined scholastic and athletic record

Education

Academic career

  • 1922-1924 Teacher of Mathematics, Shattuck School, Minnesota
  • 1924-1925 Research Chemist with U.S. Steel Corporation
  • 1926-1931 Physical Chemist with U.S. Bureau of Mines
  • 1931-1941 Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Yale University
  • 1941-1942 Technical aide at the National Defense Research Committee
  • 1943-1946 Director of Curtiss-Wright Aeronautical Research Laboratory at Buffalo, New York
  • 1946-1954 Director and Executive Vice President of Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory
  • 1954-1962 Chancellor, University of Buffalo
  • 1962-1966 President, State University of New York at Buffalo[2]
  • 1962-1966 President, Western New York Nuclear Research
  • 1966-1969 President Emeritus, State University of New York at Buffalo

Government career

  • 1952-1953 Chairman, Guided Missile Commission, Research and Development Board
  • 1954-1957 Chairman, U.S. Department of Defense Advisory Panel on Aeronautics
  • 1954-1969 Member, U.S. Army Science Advisory Panel
  • 1955-1957 Member of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
  • 1955-1957 Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Development
  • 1956-1957 Chairman, Air Navigation Development Board
  • 1957-1969 Member of the Defense Science Board
  • 1958-1969 Member of the Naval Research Advisory Committee
  • 1961-1965 Chairman of the Defense Science Board
  • 1961-1969 Chairman, New York Advisory Council, Industrial Research and Development
  • 1968-1969 Vice-Chairman, National Research Council

Publications

  • 1932 America’s Tomorrow
  • 1935 The Unfinished Business of Science
  • 1936 The Next Hundred Years
  • 1937 Man, Bread and Destiny
  • 1937 Technological Trends and National Policy (section on metallurgy)
  • 1939 The Storehouse of Civilization
  • 1940 The Individual and the World
  • 1940 Excerpts from Our Intellectual World Sections 9-13, Division II of The Individual and the World
  • 1948 Research in Industry
  • 1957 Sputnik. Why did the US lose the race? Critics speak up, Life Magazine, October 21, 1957
  • 1966 The Engineer

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Academic offices
Preceded by
T. R. McConnell
Chancellor of the University at Buffalo
1954 – 1962
Office abolished
New office President of the University at Buffalo
1962 – 1966
Succeeded by
Claude E. Puffer (acting)
Government offices
Preceded by
Donald A. Quarles
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Research and Development)
1955 – 1957
Succeeded by
Frank D. Newbury
Preceded by
Howard P. Robertson
Chairman of the Defense Science Board
1961 – 1965
Succeeded by
Robert L. Sproull



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