Before running for Congress, Holt was the Assistant Director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, an arms control expert at the State Department, an APS Congressional Fellow and a professor at Swarthmore College. Holt was a recent chair of the APS Forum on Education. Vern Ehlers was a NATO post-doc and did nuclear physics research at LBL for several years before becoming a professor at Calvin College prior to coming to Congress. Robert C. Richardson to serve as members of the National Science Board. The National Science Board establishes the policies of the National Science Foundation.
Board members serve six year terms.
Richardson, of Ithaca, New York, is currently a Professor of Physics at Cornell University. In 1996, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics along with colleagues David Lee and Douglas Osheroff. Jones, of Charlottesville, Virginia, is currently a University Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia. Ferguson, of Grinnell, Iowa, is currently a Professor of Mathematics and formerly the President of Grinnell College in Iowa. Copyright 1998, The American Physical Society.