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

The President today announced that he will nominate John B. Slaughter, of Pullman, Wash., to be Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF). He would replace Richard C. Atkinson, resigned. Slaughter is academic vice president and provost of Washington State University and is a former assistant director of NSF.

He 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. From 1975 to 1977, he was director of the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington. From 1977 to 1979, he was Assistant Director of NSF for Astronomical, Atmospheric, Earth, and Ocean Sciences.