William Robert Graham
| William Robert Graham | |
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| Born |
June 15, 1937 San Antonio, Texas |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions |
Air Force Weapons Laboratory Rand Corporation NASA |
| Alma mater |
California Institute of Technology Stanford University |
William Robert Graham (born June 15, 1937) is a U.S. physicist who was Chairman of President Reagan's General Advisory Committee on Arms Control from 1982 to 1985, a Deputy Administrator and Acting Administrator of NASA during 1985 and 1986, and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and concurrently Science Adviser to President Reagan from 1986 to 1989. He then served as an executive in national security-related companies.
Born in San Antonio, Texas, Graham received a B.S. degree in Physics from the California Institute of Technology with Honors in 1959. In addition, he earned an M.S. degree in Engineering Science in 1961, and a PhD. in Electrical Engineering in 1963, both from Stanford University.
Graham served three years active duty as a Project Officer with the Air Force Weapons Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico, directing a group conducting experimental and theoretical research on strategic system survivability. Graham later spent six years with the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California, and jointly founded R&D Associates in 1971.
In 1980, Graham served as an adviser to presidential candidate Ronald Reagan and was a member of the President-elect's Transition Team. From 1982 to 1985, he served as Chairman of the General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament, having been nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate in 1982. While chairing the General Advisory Committee, he led the preparation of the report "A Quarter Century of Soviet Compliance Practices Under Arms Control Commitments: 1958-1983", which was submitted to the President and to Congress in 1984.
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