Neal Francis Lane
| Neal Francis Lane | |
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| Director of the National Science Foundation | |
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In office 1993–1998 |
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| Preceded by | Walter Massey |
| Succeeded by | Rita Colwell |
| Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy | |
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In office 1998–2001 |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | John Gibbons |
| Succeeded by | John Marburger |
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August 22, 1938 (age 79) Oklahoma City |
| Alma mater | University of Oklahoma |
Cornelius (Neal) Francis Lane (born August 22, 1938), is a U.S. physicist and Senior Fellow in Science and Technology Policy at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy and Malcolm Gillis University Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy Emeritus at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
He has served as chancellor of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, provost of Rice University, and Science Advisor to the President (Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) during the Bill Clinton Administration. Lane lectures and writes on matters of science and technology policy.
Lane was born in Oklahoma City in 1938, graduated from Southeast High School, and earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in physics from the University of Oklahoma. His thesis advisor was Professor Chun C. Lin, who later joined the Department of Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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