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Frederick Seitz (July 4, 1911 – March 2, 2008) was an American physicist and a pioneer of solid state physics. Seitz was president of Rockefeller University, and president of the United States National Academy of Sciences 1962–1969. Seitz was the recipient of the National Medal of Science, NASA's Distinguished Public Service Award, and other honors. He founded the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and several other material research laboratories across the United States. Seitz was also the founding chairman of the George C. Marshall Institute, a tobacco industry consultant and a prominent skeptic on the issue of global warming.〔 ==Background and personal life== Born in San Francisco on July 4, 1911, Seitz graduated from Lick-Wilmerding High School in the middle of his senior year, and went on to study physics at Stanford University obtaining his bachelor's degree in three years,〔 graduating in 1932.〔 He married Elizabeth K. Marshall on May 18, 1935.〔''(Current biography yearbook, Volume 17 )'', H.W. Wilson Company, 1957. p564〕 Seitz died March 2, 2008 in New York.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Report #2 from the Global Warming Conference in New York City )〕 He was survived by a son, three grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frederick Seitz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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