George W. Clark personal archives

George W. Clark, 1928-present, is Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received a BA from Harvard College in 1949, and a PhD in 1952 from MIT. His various positions at MIT included being an instructor, 1952-1954, an assistant professor, 1952-1960, an associate professor, 1960-1966, and the first Breene Kerr Professor of Physics, 1990-1996. Clark left MIT for half a year in 1962 to do research and study at the University of Milan as a Guggenheim Fellow and went on leave from 1986-1994 to perform research at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) in Tokyo, Japan. He is a member of the American Physical Society, American Astronomical Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 1966), and the National Academy of Sciences (elected 1980). He was involved with many other professional organizations such as the American Science and Engineering Inc. Board of Directors, the Study Committee for Institutional Arrangements for the Space Telescope (NAS), and Associated Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) Board of Directors, to name a few.