Background
Gibbons, John Howard was born on January 15, 1929 in Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States. Son of Howard K. and Jessie Diana (Conrad) Gibbons.
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This is a collection of articles, lectures, and essays by a prominent American figure in science and science/technology policy - John Gibbons, who since 1992 has been Science Advisor to the President of the USA. From energy conservation to biotechnology to supercolliders to information technology, the text examines the complexities, conflicts, and compromises inherent in the interactions of science, technology, and government. Throughout these writings, which combine political and social insights with personal reflections, the reader is challenged to envision how we can continue to improve the world's quality of life while ensuring that quality can be maintained for the generations who will follow. It is intended for the general reader interested in science and the relationship between science and government, as well as physicists, science historians, engineers, and environmentalists.
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We try in this book to provide a detailed but readable, technical but accessible monograph on energy in the United States. We treat energy as a multidisciplinary challenge and apply the standard tools of economists, physicists, engineers, policy analysts, and, some might claim, fortune tellers. We hope that it will be used in classrooms of various types, and read by the general reader as well. That increased energy efficiency should be the first priority of energy policymakers is a conclusion, not an assumption, of our analysis. Many analysts have arrived at this conclusion while working separately on energy supply problems. The magnitude and scope of supply problems, primarily problems of high prices and environmental costs, lead one inexorably back to reducing demand growth as the first, most important step in any plausible energy future. We examine, in some depth, why much of the past literature on energy still points, fallaciously in our opinion, to high energy c- v Preface vi sumption futures. This is in Part I (called "A Short History of the Future"). We devote one-third of the book (Part II) to energy resources, their internal and external costs, and the quantities of energy to be derived from these resources. This analysis provides a context within which the economic and social value of energy conservation options can be assessed.
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(We try in this book to provide a detailed but readable, t...)
We try in this book to provide a detailed but readable, technical but accessible monograph on energy in the United States. We treat energy as a multidisciplinary challenge and apply the standard tools of economists, physicists, engineers, policy analysts, and, some might claim, fortune tellers. We hope that it will be used in classrooms of various types, and read by the general reader as well. That increased energy efficiency should be the first priority of energy policymakers is a conclusion, not an assumption, of our analysis. Many analysts have arrived at this conclusion while working separately on energy supply problems. The magnitude and scope of supply problems, primarily problems of high prices and environmental costs, lead one inexorably back to reducing demand growth as the first, most important step in any plausible energy future. We examine, in some depth, why much of the past literature on energy still points, fallaciously in our opinion, to high energy c- v Preface vi sumption futures. This is in Part I (called "A Short History of the Future"). We devote one-third of the book (Part II) to energy resources, their internal and external costs, and the quantities of energy to be derived from these resources. This analysis provides a context within which the economic and social value of energy conservation options can be assessed.
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Gibbons, John Howard was born on January 15, 1929 in Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States. Son of Howard K. and Jessie Diana (Conrad) Gibbons.
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Chemistry, Randolph-Macon College, 1949. Doctor of Science (honorary), Randolph-Macon College, 1977. Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, Duke University, 1954.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Duke University, 1997. Doctor of Philosophy in Humane Letters and Science (honorary), Illinois Institute of Technology, 1994. Doctor of Philosophy in Science (honorary), Mount Sinai Medical School, 1995.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Delaware, 1996. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Maryland, 1997.
Physicist and group leader nuclear geophysics Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1954-1969, director environmental program, 1969-1973. First director Energy Conservation Office, Washington, 1973-1974, Federal Energy Administrator. Professor physics, director Energy, Environmental and Resources Center, University Tennessee, Knoxville, 1974-1979.
Director Office of Technology Assessment, United States Congress, 1979-1992. Assistant to President for science and technical Executive Office of the President, Washington, 1993-1998. Director of science and technical policy Executive Office of President, 1993-1998.
President Resource Strategies, since 1998. Karl T. Compton lecturer Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998-1999. Senior fellow National Academy of Engineering, 1999-2000.
Senior advisor United States Department State, 1999-2000. Advisory committee neutron cross sections United States Atomic Energy Commission, 1969—1970. Advisory committee national center analysis energy system Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1976—1977.
Chairman demand/conservation panel Committee Nuclear & Alternative Energy Systems, 1976—1979. Chairman advisory committee energy and environmental system division Argonne National Laboratory, 1977—1979. Chairman advisory committee national center analysis energy system Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1977.
Advisory board energy Research and Development United States Department Energy, 1978—1979. Member Energy Research Advisory Board, 1978—1979. Member board science and technical for international development Committee Nuclear & Alternative Energy Systems, 1979—1987.
Energy and resources committee Aspen Institute, since 1979. Senior advisory panel Energy Modeling Forum Stanford University, 1980—1992, member advisory committee School Engineering, 1984—1987. Board directors Resources for the Future, 1983—1992.
Member steering committee Symposium Series Technology & Society, 1984—1992. Member advisory committee Electric Power Research Institute, 1986—1992. Member executive committee An Energy Agenda for 1990s, 1987—1988.
Member Carnegie Corporation Science, Technology and Government Task Force on Long Term Goals and Priorities, 1990—1992, Governor's Commission Climate Change, Common Wealth Virginia, since 2008, Advisory Panel, EPCOT Walt Disney World, 1981—1982. Member, board directors The Energy Foundation, 1990—1992. Board directors Dynamac Corporation, since 1998.
Member council advisors National Renewable Energy Laboratory, since 1998. Member steering committee National Climate Assessment, 1998—2001. Board directors World Resource Institute, 1998—2003, chair program committee, 1999—2000.
Board directors Interstate Waste Technologies, LLP, since 1999, Black Rock Forest Consortium, since 1999, Action LLC. Chair World Bank panel on millenium science initiatives, 2000—2001, Committee Improving Effectiveness Environmental Non-Governor Programs, Russia, 2000. Member international advisory board committee on international programs National Academies, 2001—2006, division advisor division on physical science and engineering, since 2001.
Chief academy advisor Shenglongda Company Ltd., 2001—2006. Member strategic advisory committee Gas Technology Institute, 2003—2006. Chairman board Population Action International, 2003—2006.
Member advisory board Massachusetts Institute of Technology Innovations Technology/Governance/Globalization Journal, since 2005. Member Idaho National Laboratory Science and Technology Committee, since 2005. Consultant Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, since 2002.
Advisory board Airlie Foundation, since 2006. Board directors Scientists and Engineers American, since 2006. Senior adviser Global Environment and Technology Foundation, 2006.
Member advisory board Center American Progress Journal Science Technology and Human Values, since 2007. Board directors Transition Energy, 2007. Consultant in field; steering committee chair, Technology and Peace Building National Academy Engineering, 2001—2008.
(This is a collection of articles, lectures, and essays by...)
(We try in this book to provide a detailed but readable, t...)
(We try in this book to provide a detailed but readable, t...)
Chairman board associations Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia, 1980-1983, trustee, 1977-1979. Board directors Knoxville Energy Expo '82, 1978-1979, chairman energy committee and national advisory county, 1979-1982. Board directors Tennessee Energy Authority, 1977-1979, World Resources Institute, since 1998.
Advisory board Trinity Institute, New York City, 1987-1992. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (board directors 1988-1990, Philip Hauge Abelson prize 1993), Association for Women in Science, American Physical Society (Leo Szilard award for physics in public interest 1991), National Science Foundation (Distinguished Public Svc. award 1998), American Assn.Engring. Socs. (chairman's award 1998).
Member National Academy of Engineering (Arthur Burche award 1998), Council Foreign Rels., New York Academy Sciences (Board of Governors since 1998, trustee since 1998), Cosmos Club, Sigma Xi (long-range planning committee 1989-1992, national lecturer 1978-1979), Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Gamma Mu, Omicron Delta Kappa, Pi Mu Epsilon, Sigma Pi Sigma, Sigma Xi (John P. McGovern Science and Society award and medal 1997).
Married Mary Ann Hobart, May 21, 1955. Children: Virginia Neil, Diana Conrad, Mary Marshall.