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Frank Press (born December 4, 1924) is an American geophysicist.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Press is the recipient of 30 honorary degrees. He graduated with his B.S. degree from the City College of New York (1944). Went on to complete his M.A. (1946) and Ph.D. (1949) degrees from Columbia University.

Notable accomplishments

• President of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1981-1993)
• Chairman of the National Research Council (1981-1993)
• Science Advisor to the President of the United States, Office of Science and Technology Policy (1977-1980)
• Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy (1977-1980)
• Professor of Geophysics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Chairman of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
• Professor of Geophysics at California Institute of Technology and Director of the Caltech Seismological Laboratory
• Life Member of the Corporation of MIT
• Board member of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the Marine Biological Laboratory, and the Monterey Bay Research Institute

Awards

• U.S. National Medal of Sciences
• Vannevar Bush Award
• Pupin Medal from Columbia University
• Japan Prize from the Emperor of Japan (1993)
• Lomonosov Gold Medal, 1997
• Pick and Gavel Award from the Association of American State Geologists, 2007

Publications

• Understanding earth (ISBN 0716735040) by Press, Frank., Siever, Raymond. W.H. Freeman, c2001
• "The role of geoscientists in providing credible advice to government officials" Press, Frank. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, vol.30, no.7, pp.247, 1998
• "Growing up in the Golden Age of Science" Press, Frank. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, vol.23, pp.1-9, 1995
• "Patterns of seismic release in the Southern California region" Press, Frank; Allen, Clarence. Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 100, no. B4, pp.6421-6430, 10 Apr 1995
• "Needed: Coherent budgeting for science and technology" Press, F. (1995) Science 270 (5241), pp. 1448-1450
• "The restructuring of science in research universities in the post-industrial society" Press, Frank. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, vol.26, no.7, pp.154, 1994
• "Geoscience education as viewed from the National Academy of Sciences" Press, Frank. Journal of Geological Education, vol.39, no.2, pp.98-100, Mar 1991
• "Science and the public welfare" Press, Frank. Earthquakes and Volcanoes, vol.22, no.3, pp.93, 1991
• "Role of education in technological competitiveness" Press, Frank (1990) Siemens review 57 (2), pp. 4
• "An international decade for natural disaster reduction" Press, Frank. USGS Open-File Report No. 88-0361, pp.53-61, 1988
• Earth (ISBN 0716717433) by Press, Frank., Siever, Raymond. W.H. Freeman, c1986.
• "Science and creationism" Press, Frank. Geotimes, vol.29, no.5, pp.9, May 1984
• "Science and technology in the White House, 1977 to 1980; Part 2" Press, Frank. Science, vol.211, no.4479, pp.249-256, 16 Jan 1981
• "Science and technology in the White House, 1977 to 1980; Part 1" Press, Frank. Science, vol.211, no.4478, pp.139-145, 09 Jan 1980
• "Earthquake Prediction" Press, Frank. Scientific American, vol.232, no.5, pp.14-23, 1975
• "Structure of the Earth and Moon: A Comparison" Press, Frank. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, vol.55, no.4, pp.323, 1974
• "The Earth and the Moon" Press, Frank. Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol.34, no.8, pp.732, 1972
• "Probing the earth with nuclear explosions" by Griggs, D. T., Press, Frank., Rand Corporation. (1959) Issued by the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory as UCRL-6013.