Appointment of Isadore M. Singer as a Member of the President's Committee on the National Medal of Science

The President today announced his intention to appoint Isadore M. Singer to be a member of the President's Committee on the National Medal of Science for a term expiring December 31, 1989. He would succeed Laddie Hughes.

Since 1983 Mr. Singer has been professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Previously he was professor of mathematics, University of California at Berkeley, 1979-1983.

Mr. Singer graduated from the University of Michigan (B.S., 1944) and the University of Chicago (M.S., 1948; Ph.D., 1950). He was born May 4, 1924, in Detroit, MI. Mr. Singer is married, has five children, and resides in Boxborough, MA.