Edward Alan Knapp

Background

Knapp, Edward Alan was born on March 7, 1932 in Salem, Oregon, United States. Son of Gardner and Lucille (Moore) Knapp.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Pomona College, 1954; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1958; Honorary Doctor of Science, Pomona College, 1984; Honorary Doctor of Science, Bucknell U., 1984.

Career

He then moved to the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, where he became division leader of the accelerator technology division. In 1978, he was a guest scientist in the United States of America–Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Exchange Program in Fundamental Properties of Matter. He also was a guest scientist in the United States–Japanese Cooperative Cancer Research Program (National Cancer Institute) in 1979.

On July 12, 1982, he was nominated by Ronald Reagan to succeed William Klemperer as Assistant Director for the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate of the National Science Foundation.

In November 1982, he became Director of the National Science Foundation, succeeding John Brooks Slaughter. In August 1984, he gave up the position to Erich Bloch and returned to scientific research.

The LANL lists him as retired.

Achievements

• Edward Alan Knapp has been listed as a notable government agency administrator, scientist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society. Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Sigma Xi.

Connections

Married Jean Elaine Hartwell, June 27, 1954. Children: Sandra, David, Robert, Mary.

Father:

Gardner Knapp

Mother:

Lucille (Moore) Knapp

Spouse:

Jean Elaine Hartwell

child:

Mary Knapp

child:

Sandra Knapp

child:

David Knapp

child:

Robert Knapp