National Science Foundation Nomination of John B. Slaughter To Be an Assistant Director.

The President today announced that he will nominate John B. Slaughter, of Bellevue, Wash., to be Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation. He would replace Dr. Robert E. Hughes, resigned, and his area of responsibility would be astronomical, atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences.

Slaughter was born March 16, 1934, in Topeka, Kans. He received a B.S. from Kansas State University in 1956, an M.S. from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1961, and a Ph.D. in engineering science from the University of California at San Diego in 1971.

Slaughter was an engineer at Convair Division of General Dynamics Corp., from 1956 to 1960, and was physical science administrator of information systems at the Naval Electronics Laboratory Center from 1961 to 1975. Since 1975 he has been director of the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington.

Since 1972 Slaughter has been editor of the Journal of Computer and Electrical Engineering. He received the Community Service Award of the Institute of Electric and Electronics Engineers in 1972