What key details about alan tower waterman can be extracted from the following bio? Bio: alan tower waterman -lrb- june 4 , 1892 -- november 30 , 1967 -rrb- was an american physicist . born in cornwall-on-hudson , new york , he grew up in northampton , massachusetts . his father was a professor of physics at smith college . alan also became a physicist , doing his undergraduate and doctoral work at princeton university , from which he obtained his ph.d. in 1916 . he joined the faculty of the university of cincinnati , and married mary mallon -lrb- sister of h. neil mallon -rrb- there in august 1917 . he later became a professor at yale university , and moved to north haven , connecticut in 1929 . during world war ii , he took leave of absence from yale to become director of field operations for the office of scientific research and development , and the family moved to cambridge , ma . he continued his government work and became deputy chief of the office of naval research . in 1950 , he was appointed as first director of the u.s. national science foundation -lrb- nsf -rrb- . waterman was awarded the public welfare medal from the national academy of sciences in 1960 . he served as director until 1963 , when he retired and was subsequently awarded the presidential medal of freedom . he died in 1967 . alan and mary had six children : alan jr. , an atmospheric physicist , neil , barbara , anne , guy , the well-known climber , and mary . besides his scientific talents , he was an accomplished musician and an avid outdoorsman , and eventually became a licensed maine guide . the crater waterman on the moon is named after him , as is mount waterman in the hughes range of antarctica . since 1975 , the national science foundation has annually issued the alan t. waterman award -lrb- named in waterman 's honor -rrb- to a promising young researcher .
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- prizes is public freedom -lrb- 1963 -rrb- welfare medal -lrb- 1960 -rrb- presidential medal of- death date is 30 november 1967- field is physics- work institution is u. development office of naval research nsf of cincinnati yale office of scientific research and- birth date is 4 june 1892- name is alan tower waterman- nationality is us- birth place is cornwall-on-hudson , new york- alma mater is princeton