Occupation Physicist Name Frank von | Awards MacArthur Fellowship | |
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Alma mater MIT and Oxford University Books Advice and Dissent: Scientists in the Political Arena, Citizen Scientist: Collected Essays of Frank Von Hippel Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Oxford | ||
Frank N. von Hippel: "Japan's plutonium stockpile and the approach to reprocessing"
Frank N.J. von Hippel is an American physicist, born in 1937. He is Professor and Co-Director of Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University and Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
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- Frank N von Hippel Japans plutonium stockpile and the approach to reprocessing
- Positions held
- Research interests
- Awards
- Degrees
- Works
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He is Arthur von Hippel´s son, and Eric von Hippel´s brother.
Positions held
Frank von Hippel, is a theoretical physicist, and a Professor of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Prior to working at Princeton, he worked for ten years in the field of theoretical elementary-particle physics.
In the 1980s, as chairman of the Federation of American Scientists, Von Hippel partnered with Evgenyi Velikhov in advising Mikhail Gorbachev on the technical basis for steps to end the nuclear arms race.
From 1993 to 1995, he was the Assistant Director for National Security in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
He now serves on the National Advisory Board of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, the research arm of Council for a Livable World. He is Co-Chair of the International Panel on Fissile Materials.
Research interests
Primary areas of policy research include: nuclear arms control and nonproliferation, nuclear power and energy issues, improving automobile fuel economy, and checks and balances in policymaking for technology. He played a major role in developing cooperative programs to increase the security of Russian nuclear-weapons-usable materials.
Von Hippel and his colleagues have worked on fissile material policy issues for the past 30 years, including contributions to: "ending the U.S. program to foster the commercialization of plutonium breeder reactors, convincing President Gorbachev to embrace the idea of a Fissile Material Production Cutoff Treaty, launching the U.S.-Russian cooperative nuclear materials protection, control and accounting program, and broadening efforts to eliminate the use of high-enriched uranium in civilian reactors worldwide".