Frank N. von Hippel
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Dr. Frank N. von Hippel Professor and Co-Director Program on Science and Global Security Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Frank von Hippel, is a nuclear physicist, and a Professor of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He has worked on nuclear policy issues for over thirty years. Prior to coming to Princeton, he worked for ten years in the field of elementary-particle theoretical physics.
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.
Von Hippel played a major role in developing cooperative programs to increase the security of Russian nuclear-weapons-useable materials.
At present he is Co-Chair of the International Panel on Fissile Materials.
In 2005, he received the George F. Kennan Distinguished Peace Leadership Award.
He was a MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellow from 1993 to 1998.
From 1993 to 1994, he was the Assistant Director for National Security in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
In 1977, von Hippel and Joel Primack shared the American Physical Society's Forum Award. This was awarded for promoting the understanding of the relationship of physics and society in their book, Advice and Dissent: Scientists in the Political Arena.
Degrees: D. Phil (Theoretical Physics), Oxford, 1962 B.S., M.I.T., 1959
