Frank N. von Hippel

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. 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. Frank von Hippel, is a nuclear physicist, and a Professor of Public and Internationa... more
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