Louis Lanzerotti is one of eight scientists nominated by President Bush to serve on the National Science Board, the panel that oversees NSF. Lanzerotti, a physics professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a consultant to Lucent Technologies’ Bell Laboratories, has focused his recent research on space weather and the effects of the Sun on Earth’s space environment. He also serves on a National Research Council committee that is studying whether to prolong the life of the Hubble Space Telescope (see Physics Today, Physics Today 0031-9228 57 10 2004 33 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1825263 October 2004, page 33 ).
In addition to Lanzerotti, the other nominees are Dan Arvizu, executive director for energy technologies at the University of Chicago; Steven Beering, president emeritus of Purdue University; G. Wayne Clough, president of the Georgia Institute of Technology; Kelvin Kay Droegemeier, director of the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms at...
