Background
Seiff, Alvin was born on February 26, 1922 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Son of Harry Louis and Sara Dorothy (Silverstone) Seiff.
atmospheric and aerodynamics scientist Planetary
Seiff, Alvin was born on February 26, 1922 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Son of Harry Louis and Sara Dorothy (Silverstone) Seiff.
Bachelor of Science Chemical Engineering, University Missouri, 1942. Postgraduate, University Tennessee, 1948. Postgraduate, Stanford University, 1960.
Chemical engineer, Tennessee Valley Authority, Florence, Alabama, 1942-1943;
technical supervisor uranium isotope separ., Tennessee Eastman Corporation, Oak Ridge, 1944-1945;
instructor physics, U. Tennessee, Knoxville, 1945-1948;
aero research scientist, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Ames Aero. Laboratory, Moffett Field, California, 1948-1957;
chief supersonic free flight research branch, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Moffett Field, 1952-1963;
chief vehicle environment division, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, 1963-1972;
senior staff scientist director's office, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, 1972-1977;
senior staff scientist space science division, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, 1977-1986;
senior research associate, San Jose (California) State University Foundation, since 1987. Member entry science team Viking Mars Mission Langley Research Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Hampton, Virginia, 1972-1977, member science steering group Pioneer Venus Project Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, 1972-1982, Galileo Project, science group Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, since 1979, member science team Soviet-French Vega Venus Balloom Mission, 1984-1987, chairman science advisory team atmosphere structure and meteorology Mars Pathfinder Mission, since 1993.
Member basic Research Council, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, 1973-1976. Von Karman lecturer, 1990. Principal investigator structure of Jupiter's atmosphere, Galileo entry probe, 1995.
Fellow American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (associate). Member American Astronomical Society (division planetary science), American Geophysical Union.
Married Robbye Walker, March 27, 1948 (divorced October 1959). Children: David Wilson, Deborah Ellen Seiff Hedgecock. Married Julia Gwynne Hill, June 23, 1968.
Children: Michael Harry, Geoffrey Bernard.