CIA ADVISER NAMED TO FILL VACANCY ON AEC

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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 1999
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President Chooses o-
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CIA ADVIS IC
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VACANCY ON
essor at Institute Headid
by Oppenheimer
WASHITYGTON, Oct.
President iseniower today na d
a 50-year-old athematies prof -
sor, Dr. John Von Neumann,
the remaining vacancy on the five
man Atomic 1/nergy Conimisslo
A naturalized American who was
born in Budapest, Hungary, Von;
Neumann " seeds Eugene M.
Zuckert in the $18,000-a-year post
for a five. year term ending June
30, 1959. Zuckert left when his
term expired last June 30..
Von Neumann has compiled a
distinguished record as a scientist
and has been a professor at the
Institute for Advanced Study at
Princeton, tv. S., since 1933.
Headed Icy" Oppenheimer
Director of the institute is Dr. J.
Robert Oppenheimer, the pioneer
atomic scientist who was declared
a security risk by the commission
last June. He had been an adviser
to the commission. The institute
is not a part of Princeton'Univer-
sity.
The White House listed Von Neu-
ann as a political independent,
hich makes the new commission
ineup three Republicans, one Dem-?
crat and one independent. Thet
w does not require any specific!
olitical ratio among the com-
issioners. The one Democrat,;'
omas E. Murray, is the sole re-,
niaining appointee of former Presi-!
dgnt Truman.
Von ,Neumann is the second cur-:
Tent member of the commission to`
have a scientific background. The
other is Dr. Willard Frank Libby,'
a University of Chicago atomic
scientist appointed to succeed Dr
Henry D. Smyth last Sept. 30.
Both nominations must be passed
Has Advised Government
Von Neumann became a natur-
alized American citizen on Aug. 1,
1937. Besides achievements in the
scientific and educational fields, he
has served on a number of gov-
ernment advisory groups including
the General Advisory Committee
to the Atomic Energy. Commission I
and, as chairman of a nuclear'
At his home in -Princeton, Von
` until I bear of it officially." _I
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