As now constituted, the Committee of Concerned Scientists enjoys the leadership of 13 Executive Committee members (co-chairs and vice-chairs), 25 National Sponsors, and an Advisory Board of scientists, physicians, engineers, and scholars.
Co-chairs
Joel L. Lebowitz, Rutgers University
Paul H. Plotz, M.D., Washington, DC
Walter Reich, George Washington University
Eugene Chudnovsky, Lehman College
Alexander Greer, Brooklyn College
Vice-chairs
Astronomy – Arno Penzias, New Enterprises Associates*
Biology – Max E. Gottesman, Columbia University
Chemistry – Zafra Lerman, MIMSAD Inc.
Computer Science – Jack Minker, University of Maryland, College Park
Engineering – Philip Sarachik, Polytechnic Institute of New York University
Mathematics – Simon Levin, Princeton University
Medical Sciences – J. Joseph Blum, Duke University
Physics – Joseph Birman, City College of New York
Past Co-chairs
Robert S. Adelstein, National Institutes of Health
Jack Cohen, Tel Aviv University
Max E. Gottesman, Columbia University
Mark Kac (deceased), University of Southern California
Peter S. Pershan, Harvard University
Fred Pollak (deceased), Brooklyn College
Melvin Pomerantz, Lawrence
Berkeley Laboratory
H. Eugene Stanley, Boston University
National Sponsors
David Baltimore, California Institute of Technology*
Alan J. Bard, University of Texas
Jacob Bigeleisen (deceased), SUNY, Stony Brook
Raoul Bott (deceased), Harvard University
Owen Chamberlain (deceased), University of California, Berkeley
Thomas Eisner, Cornell University
Edward Gerjuoy, University of Pittsburg
Pierre Hohenberg, New York University
Kurt Isselbacher, Massachusetts General Hospital
Jerome Karle, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory*
Walter Kohn, University of California, Santa Barbara*
James Langer, University of California, Santa Barbara
Benjamin Lax, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peter Lax, New York University
Louis Nirenberg, New York University
Marshall Nirenberg (deceased), National Institutes of Health*
John C. Polanyi, University of Toronto*
Stuart Rice, University of Chicago
Myriam Sarachick, City College of New York
Harold Scheraga, Cornell University
Sylvan Schweber, Brandeis University
Andrew Sessler, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Lawrence Shepp, Rutgers University
Maxine Singer, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Alfred I. Tauber, Boston University
Charles Townes, University of California, Berkeley*
Steven Weinberg, University of Texas, Austin*
Myrna Weissman, Columbia University
Rosalyn S. Yalow (deceased), Mount Sinai School of Medicine*
Advisory Board Members
Mark Alber, Notre Dame University
Bruce Alberts, University of California, San Francisco
Joan Birman, Columbia University
Marvin Bishop, Manhattan College
Sidney Bludman, Universidad de Chile
Sylvain Cappell, New York University
Milton Cole, Penn State University
Stanley Deser, Brandeis University
Richard Ebright, Rutgers University
Xin-Yuan Fu, Indiana University
Robert Gregerman, University of Texas San Antonio
James Griffin, University of Maryland
Robert B. Griffith, Carnegie Mellon University
Bertrand Halperin, Harvard University
Julian Heicklen, Penn State University
B. Loerinc Helft, CUNY
Richard Herman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Peter Hotez, Texas Children’s Hospital
Andy Kent, New York University
Simon Levin, Princeton University
Walter Neumann, Columbia University
Charles Newman, New York University
Peter Pershan, Harvard University
Murray Peshkin, Argonne National Laboratory
Melvin Pomerantz, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Gerald Porter, University of Pennsylvania
Daniel Prober, Yale University
Elisabeth Rachlew, Royal Institute of
Technology (KTH)
Anthony Ralston, Royal Roads University
Ivor Robinson, University of Texas
Harold Scheraga, Cornell University
Sidney Simon, Duke University
Thomas Spiro, University of Washington
Ralph G. Steinhardt, George Washington University
Edward Stern, University of Washington
Svetlana Stone Wachtell
Earl Taft, Rutgers University
Betty Tsang, Michigan State University
Norman Zabusky, Weitzman Institute
Executive Director
Sophie Cook
Past Executive Director
Dorothy Hirsch, Emerita
Affiliation for identification purposes only
* Nobel laureate

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