Board of Sponsors
About the Board of Sponsors
The Bulletin’s Board of Sponsors was first established in December 1948 by Albert Einstein, with J. Robert Oppenheimer as its first chair. Members of the Board of Sponsors are recruited by their peers from the world’s most accomplished science and security leaders to reinforce the importance of the Bulletin’s activities and publications. The Board grew out of the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists, which Einstein wrote, “was organized in August 1946 to support the educational activities undertaken by the various groups of atomic scientists.”
Members of the Board of Sponsors are consulted on key issues, including the setting of the Bulletin’s Doomsday Clock. Members, which have counted 40 Nobel laureates over the years, are welcome to attend all meetings.
Current Sponsors
David Baltimore
1975 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine
George Church
Professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Personal Genome Project
France A. Córdova
Former director of the National Science Foundation
Gareth Evans
Convenor, Asia Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament; Chair, ANU Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament; Co-Chair, International Commission for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament; Chancellor, Australian National University
Jerome Friedman
1990 Nobel laureate in Physics
Richard Garwin
Philip D. Reed Senior Fellow for Science and Technology at the Council on Foreign Relations, New York
Sheldon Glashow
1979 Nobel laureate in Physics
Brian Greene
Professor of mathematics and physics and joint director of the Institute for Strings, Cosmology, and Astrophysics at Columbia University
Rose Gottemoeller
Steven C. Házy Lecturer at the Freeman-Spogli Institute of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University and former Deputy Secretary General of NATO
Siegfried S. Hecker (Chair)
Director emeritus at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Dudley Herschbach
1986 Nobel laureate in Chemistry
Roald Hoffmann
1981 Nobel laureate in Chemistry
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Professor of physics at Quaid-e-Azam University, Pakistan
Eric Horvitz
Technical Fellow and Chief Scientific Officer at Microsoft
Angela Kane
Former UN High Representative for Disarmament.
Shirley Malcom
Head of the Directorate for Education and Human Resources Programs of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
William Perry
Michael and Barbara Berberian Professor at Stanford University
Thomas Pickering
Chairman of the Board of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service
John Polanyi
1986 Nobel laureate in Chemistry
Lisa Randall
Professor of physics at Harvard University
Martin Rees
President of The Royal Society
Richard Roberts
1993 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine
Robert Rosner
Former director of Argonne National Laboratory
Roald Sagdeev
Professor of physics at the University of Maryland
Brian Schmidt
2011 Nobel laureate in Physics
Professor of astronomy at the Australian National University
Adnan Shihab-Eldin
Senior visiting research fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (Oxford, UK), and former director general of the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (retired)
Jaan Tallinn
Founding engineer of Skype and Kazaa and co-founder of Future of Life Institute
Frank von Hippel
Codirector of the Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Frank Wilczek
2004 Nobel laureate in Physics
Edward Witten
Charles Simonyi Professor of Mathematical Physics in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey
Past Sponsors
Ruth Adams (1923-2005)
Editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Paul Berg (1926-2023)
1980 Nobel laureate in Chemistry
Samuel Allison (1900–1965)
First and third director of the Enrico Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies at the University of Chicago
Edoardo Amaldi (1908–1989)
Secretary-general of the nascent CERN Laboratory
Robert Bacher (1905-2004)
Chair of the Division of Mathematics, Physics, and Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology
Hans Bethe (1906-2005)
1967 Nobel laureate in Physics
Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920-2017)
1981 Nobel laureate in Physics
Detlev W. Bronk (1897–1975)
President of the National Academy of Sciences
S. Chandrasekhar (1910–1995
1983 Nobel laureate in Physics
Owen Chamberlain (1920-2006)
1959 Nobel laureate in Physics
Georges Charpak (1924-2010
1992 Nobel laureate in Physics
Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008)
Author and screenwriter
A. H. Compton (1892–1962)
1927 Nobel laureate in Physics
E. U. Condon (1902–1974)
President of the American Physical Society
James Cronin (1931-2016)
1980 Nobel laureate in Physics
Farrington Daniels (1889–1972)
President of the American Chemical Society
Jayantha Dhanapala (1938-2023)
Former United Nations Under-Secretary General for Disarmament Affairs
Carl Djerassi, (1923-2015)
Recipient of the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology
Paul Doty (1920-2011)
Founder and director emeritus of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University
Lee A. DuBridge (1901–1994)
Director of the radiation laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)
1984 National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction
Sam Edwards (1928-2015)
Cavendish Professor Emeritus for Theoretical Physics and former pro-vice chancellor of Cambridge University
Manfred Eigen (1927-2019)
1967 Nobel laureate in Chemistry
Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
1921 Nobel laureate in Physics
Val Fitch (1923-2015)
1980 Nobel laureate in Physics
Brian Flowers (1924-2010)
Fellow at the Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Environment Office
James Franck (1883–1964)
1925 Nobel laureate in Physics
Donald Glaser (1927-2013)
1960 Nobel laureate in Physics
Bentley Glass (1906-2005)
Academic vice president at the State University of New York, Stony Brook
Marvin Goldberger (1922-2014)
President emeritus at the California Institute of Technology
S. A. Goudsmit (1902–1978)
Senior scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory
Stephen W. Hawking (1942-2018)
Theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author, and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge.
Gerhard Herzberg (1904–1999)
1971 Nobel laureate in Chemistry
Dorothy Hodgkin (1910–1994)
1964 Nobel laureate in Chemistry
Howard Hiatt (1925–2024)
Professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School
T. R. Hogness (1894–1976)
Director of the Institute of Radiobiology and Biophysics at the University of Chicago
Alfred Kastler (1902–1984)
1966 Nobel laureate in Physics
Henry Kendall (1926–1999)
1990 Nobel laureate in Physics
Masatoshi Koshiba (1926-2020)
2002 Nobel laureate in Physics
Lawrence M. Krauss (1954–)
Inaugural director, Origins Project, Arizona State University
Ryogo Kubo (1920–1995)
1977 recipient of the Boltzmann Medal
Leon Lederman (1922–2018)
Chair emeritus, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; 1988 Nobel laureate in Physics
F. W. Loomis (1889–1976)
Associate head of the Radiation Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Reimar Lüst (1923-2020)
Former president of the Max Planck Society
Ben Mottelson (1926-2022)
1975 Nobel laureate in Physics
Philip M. Morse (1903–1985)
First director of the Brookhaven National Laboratory
Marcos Moshinsky (1921-2009)
Former chair of the Mexican Physics Society
Nevill Mott (1905–1996)
1977 Nobel laureate in Physics
H. J. Muller (1890–1967)
1946 Nobel laureate in Medicine
Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967)
Director of the Manhattan Project
W. K. H. Panofsky (1919-2007)
Director emeritus of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Linus Pauling (1901–1994)
1954 Nobel laureate in Chemistry
G. B. Pegram (1876–1958)
Vice president of Columbia University's School of Mines, Engineering, and Chemistry
Rudolf Peierls (1907–1995)
Manhattan Project scientist
Gerald Piel (1915-2004)
President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
I. I. Rabi (1898–1988)
1944 Nobel laureate in Physics
Victor Rabinowitch (1934-2019)
Former senior vice president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Leonard Rieser (1922–1998)
Chairman of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Joseph Rotblat (1908-2005)
1995 Nobel laureate in Peace
Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989)
1975 Nobel laureate in Peace
Oscar Sala (1922-2010)
Head of the Department of Nuclear Physics at the University of São Paulo
Abdus Salam (1926–1996)
1978 Nobel laureate in Physics
Julian Schwinger (1918–1994)
1965 Nobel laureate in Physics
Frederick Seitz (1911–2008)
President emeritus of Rockefeller University
John Simpson (1916–2000)
Founder of the Laboratory for Astrophysics and Space Research
Cyril Smith (1903–1992)
Manhattan Project scientist
Leo Szilard (1898–1964)
Co-organizer of the first Pugwash conference
Toshiyuki Toyoda (1920 - 2009)
Professor emeritus of physics at Nagoya University
Edward Teller (1908–2003)
Member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's General Advisory Committee
Kosta Tsipis (1934-2020)
Former director of the Program in Science & Technology for International Security at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harold Urey (1893–1981)
1934 Nobel laureate in Chemistry
Steven Weinberg (1933-2021)
1979 NobellLaureate in Physics and holder of the Josey Regental Chair in Science at the University of Texas at Austin
V. F. Weisskopf (1908–2002)
Cofounder of the Federation of Atomic Scientists
C. F. von Weizsäcker (1912-2007)
Director of the Max Planck Institute of Physics
Jerome Wiesner (1915–1994)
Special assistant to the president for science and technology from 1961–1964
Robert Wilson (1914–2000)
1978 Nobel laureate in Physics
Sewall Wright (1889–1988)
1966 recipient of the National Medal of Science
J. R. Zacharias (1905–1986)
Head of the Transmitter Components Division of the Radiation Laboratory
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