Frank N. von Hippel

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Frank N. von Hippel (born 1937) is an American physicist. He is Professor and Co-Director of Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.

He is Arthur von Hippel's son, and Eric von Hippel's brother.{{Cite web|url=http://news.mit.edu/2004/vonhippel|title = MIT Professor von Hippel dies at 105; was leader in materials research}}

Positions held

Frank von Hippel is a theoretical physicist, and a Professor of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.{{cite web |url=https://www.princeton.edu/step/people/faculty/frank-n.-von-hippel/ |title=Frank N. von Hippel |website=www.princeton.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090630165634/http://www.princeton.edu/step/people/faculty/frank-n.-von-hippel/ |archive-date=2009-06-30}} Prior to working at Princeton, he worked for ten years in the field of theoretical elementary-particle physics.{{cite web |url=http://www.princeton.edu/sgs/faculty-staff/frank-von-hippel/ |title=Frank von Hippel -?The Program on Science and Global Security |website=www.princeton.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111224234453/http://www.princeton.edu/sgs/faculty-staff/frank-von-hippel/ |archive-date=2011-12-24}}

In the 1980s, as chairman of the Federation of American Scientists, Von Hippel partnered with Evgenyi Velikhov in advising Mikhail Gorbachev on the technical basis for steps to end the nuclear arms race.

From 1993 to 1995, he was the Assistant Director for National Security in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/nukes/interviews/hippel.html |title=Interview With Dr. Frank von Hippel {{!}} Loose Nukes |work=Frontline |date=1996|access-date=1 April 2019}}

He now serves on the National Advisory Board of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, the research arm of Council for a Livable World.{{cite web|title=Board|url=http://armscontrolcenter.org/about/board/#FVHippel|website=Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation|publisher=Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation|access-date=22 September 2016}} He is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials.{{cite web|url=http://fissilematerials.org/ipfm/members.html |title=Members |website=International Panel on Fissile Materials |date=3 August 2016 |access-date=1 April 2019}}

Research interests

Primary areas of policy research include: nuclear arms control and nonproliferation, nuclear power and energy issues, improving automobile fuel economy, and checks and balances in policymaking for technology. He played a major role in developing cooperative programs to increase the security of Russian nuclear-weapons-usable materials.{{citation needed|date=May 2017}}

Von Hippel and his colleagues have worked on fissile material policy issues for the past 30 years, including contributions to: "ending the U.S. program to foster the commercialization of plutonium breeder reactors, convincing President Gorbachev to embrace the idea of a Fissile Material Production Cutoff Treaty, launching the U.S.-Russian cooperative nuclear materials protection, control and accounting program, and broadening efforts to eliminate the use of high-enriched uranium in civilian reactors worldwide".{{citation needed|date=May 2017}}

Awards and honors

1977, von Hippel and Joel Primack shared the American Physical Society's Forum Award., for their book, Advice and Dissent: Scientists in the Political Arena.{{citation needed|date=May 2017}}
1983, elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.{{cite web|title=APS Fellow Archive|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=1983&unit_id=&institution=Princeton+University}}
1993 MacArthur Fellows Program.{{Cite web|url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/177/|title=Frank N. von Hippel - MacArthur Foundation|website=www.macfound.org|language=en|access-date=2018-10-06}}
2005, he received the George F. Kennan Distinguished Peace Leadership Award.{{citation needed|date=May 2017}}
2010 Leo Szilard Lectureship Award.{{cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?last_nm=Hippel&first_nm=Frank&year=2010 |title=Prize Recipient Frank von Hippel Princeton University |website=American Physical Society |access-date=1 April 2019}}

Degrees

D. Phil. (Theoretical Physics), Oxford University, 1962
B.S. (Physics), M.I.T., 1959

Works

"Scientists and the Politics of Technology", Frank von Hippel and Joel Primack, Applied Spectroscopy, Vol. 25, Issue 4, pp. 403–413 (1971) {{Cite journal|url=http://www.opticsinfobase.org/as/abstract.cfm?uri=as-25-4-403|title = Scientists and the Politics of Technology|journal = Applied Spectroscopy|date = May 1971|volume = 25|issue = 4|pages = 403–413|last1 = Hippel|first1 = Frank von|last2 = Primack|first2 = Joel|doi = 10.1366/000370271779950193|bibcode = 1971ApSpe..25..403V|s2cid = 95926649}}
Advice and Dissent: Scientists in the Political Arena. Basic Books, 1974
[https://books.google.com/books?id=WcBxQv_cQjUC&dq=Frank+von+Hippel&pg=PA61 "Warhead and Fissile-material Declarations"], Reversing the arms race: how to achieve and verify deep reductions in the nuclear arsenals, Editors Frank Von Hippel, R. Z. Sagdeev, Taylor & Francis, 1990, {{ISBN|978-2-88124-390-5}}
[https://books.google.com/books?id=CPRVbYDc-7kC&q=Frank+von+Hippel "Foreword"], Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces, Editors Pavel Podvig, Oleg Bukharin, MIT Press, 2004, {{ISBN|978-0-262-66181-2}}