| Sidney D. Drell  AKA Sidney David Drell
Born: 13-Sep-1926
Birthplace: Atlantic City, NJ
Died: 21-Dec-2016
Location of death: Palo Alto, CA
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: In the Shadow of the Bomb Father: Tully Drell (pharmacist)
Mother: Rose White (schoolteacher)
Wife: Harriet J. Stainback (one son, two daughters)
Son: Daniel W. Drell (b. 1953)
Daughter: Persis S. Drell (b. 1955)
Daughter: Joanna H. Drell (b. 1965)
University: BA, Princeton University (1946)
University: MA, University of Illinois (1947)
University: PhD, University of Illinois (1949)
Trustee: Institute for Advanced Study (1974-83)
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Exec. Dir., Theoretical Physics (1969-86)
New Perspectives Quarterly Advisory Board
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1971
American Philosophical Society
American Physical Society
The Arms Control Association Board of Directors (1971-93)
Council on Foreign Relations
Hoover Institution Senior Fellow
JASON
National Academy of Sciences 1969
Bill Bradley for President
John Kerry for President
Obama for America
Guggenheim Fellowship 1961
Guggenheim Fellowship 1971
E. O. Lawrence Award 1972
MacArthur Fellowship
Enrico Fermi Award 2000
Rumford Prize 2008 (shared)
National Medal of Science 2011
Author of books:
Relativistic Quantum Mechanics (1964, with James D. Bjorken)
Relativistic Quantum Fields (1965, with James D. Bjorken)
Facing the Threat of Nuclear Weapons (1983)
The Reagan Strategic Defense Initiative: A Technical, Political, and Arms Control Assessment (1985, with others)
Sidney Drell on Arms Control (1988)
In the Shadow of the Bomb: Physics and Arms Control (1995)
The New Terror: Facing the Threat of Biological and Chemical Weapons (1999, with others)
The Gravest Danger: Nuclear Weapons (2003, with James E. Goodby)
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