National Science Foundation Nomination of William Klemperer To Be an Assistant Director.

The President today announced that he will nominate William Klemperer, of Watertown, Mass., to be an Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation. He would replace James Krumhansl, resigned, and his area of responsibility would be mathematical and physical sciences and engineering.

Klemperer is a professor of chemistry at Harvard University and is known for his research in molecular spectroscopy.

He was born October 6, 1927, in New York City. He received an A.B. from Harvard University in 1950 and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1954. He served in the U.S. Navy Air Corps from 1944 to 1946.

Klemperer has been on the faculty at Harvard since 1954 and has been a full professor since 1965. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1969 and is a member of numerous professional associations.