Measures for Progress: A History of the National Bureau of Standards

APPENDIX E
MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE
of the Secretary of Commerce
to the National Bureau of Standards
Term
ALBERT LADD COLBY 1901-07
Consulting engineer in metallurgy, South Bethlehem, Pa., and secretary,
Association of American Steel Manufacturers.
DR. ELIHU THOMSON
1901-18
Electrical engineer, General Electric Co., Lynn, Mass.
DR. IRA REMSEN 1901-09
Director of Chemical Laboratory and president, Johns Hopkins University.
DR. HENRY S. PRITCHETT 1901-10
President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; later president, Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of-Teaching.
PROF. EDWARD L. NICHOLS. 1901-11
Professor of physics, Cornell University.
DR. ROBERT S. WOODWARD 1908-12
President, Carnegie Institution of Washington.
PROF. HENRY M. HOWE 1909-14
Professor of metallurgy, Columbia University.
PROF. ARTHUR G. WEBSTER 1910-15
Director, Physics Laboratory, Clark University.
PROF. JOHN F. HAYFORD 1912-21
Director, College of Engineering, Northwestern University.
PROF. ARTHUR E. KENNELLY 1912-17
Professor of electrical engineering, Harvard University.
JOHN R. FREEMAN 1915-24, 1926-31
Consulting engineer, Providence, RI.
PROF. WILLIAM A. NOYES 1915-20
Director, Chemical Laboratory, University of Illinois.
PROF. JOSEPH S. AMES 1917-22
Director, Physical Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University.
PROF. FRED W.' McNAIR 1921-23
President, Michigan College of Mines,' Houghton, Mich.
PROF. WILDER D. BANCROFT 1920-25
Professor of physical chemistry, Cornell University.
DR. AMBROSE SWASEY 1921-26
Chairman of the Board, Warner & Swasey Co., Cleveland, Ohio.
DR. SAMUEL W. STRATTON 1923-31
President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Sources: NARG 167, NBS Box 296; NARG 40, files of Secretary of Commerce,
67009/5; current files, Office of the Director, NBS.
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