Dr. Ramo, recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Nation's highest civilian award, is a co-founder, the "R," of TRW Inc., one of the world's largest technological corporations. The Chief Scientist in the development of the U.S. Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, he was Chairman of the President's Committee on Science and Technology under President Ford. He has also been a member of the Advisory Council to the Secretary of State on Science and Foreign Affairs, the White House Council on Energy Research and Development, the National Science Board, and the Council of Scholars in the Library of Congress. He has received the top national science recognition, the National Medal of Science, and was the first recipient of the National Academy of Engineering's award for statesmanship in national science and technology policy. A Visiting Professor at Caltech, Dr. Ramo has been a Regent's Lecturer at the University of California, a Fellow of the Faculty of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and Chairman of the UCLA School of Medicine Planning Committee. He is the author of a number of textbooks in science, engineering, and management widely used by universities and practitioners throughout the world.
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