The President today announced his intention to nominate William A. Nierenberg to be a member of the National Science Board, National Science Foundation. He would succeed Joseph Mayo Pettit.
Dr. Nierenberg has been serving as director of Scripps Institute of Oceanography at the University of California at San Diego since 1965. He is also vice chancellor of marine science. He was an associate professor at the University of Paris in 1960-1962, and was with the University of California at Berkeley in 1950-1965. He was a member of the National Science Board in 1972-1978 and Chairman of the National Advisory Commission on Oceans and Atmosphere in 1971-1975. He served as consultant to the National Security Agency in 1958-1960.
Dr. Nierenberg graduated from City College of New York (B.S., 1939) and Columbia University (M.A., 1942; Ph.D., 1947). He is married, has two children, and resides in La Jolla, Calif. He was born February 13, 1919.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of William A. Nierenberg To Be a Member of the National Science Board Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/244935