Massachusetts Institute of Technology

About Deutch:
John Deutch is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Deutch has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1970, and has served as Chairman of the Department of Chemistry, Dean of Science, and Provost. Mr. Deutch has published over 160 technical publications in physical chemistry, as well as numerous publications on technology, energy, international security, and public policy issues.

John Deutch served as Director of Central Intelligence from May 1995-December 1996. From 1994-1995, he served as Deputy Secretary of Defense and served as Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology from 1993-1994. John Deutch has also served as Director of Energy Research (1977-1979), Acting Assistant Secretary for Energy Technology (1979), and Undersecretary (1979-80) in the United States Department of Energy.

In addition, John Deutch has served on the President’s Nuclear Safety Oversight Committee (1980-81); the President’s Commission on Strategic Forces (1983); the White House Science Council (1985-89); the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board (1990-93); the President’s Commission on Aviation Safety and Security (1996); the President’s Commission on Reducing and Protecting Government Secrecy (1996-1997); and as Chairman of the Commission to Assess the Organization of the Federal Government to Combat the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (1998-99). He was a member of the President’s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (1997-2001). He received the Aspen Strategy Group Leadership Award in 2004 and was the Phi Beta Kappa “Orator” at Harvard University, 2005. He is a member of the National Petroleum Council

John Deutch serves as director for the following publicly held companies: Cheniere Energy, Citigroup, and Raytheon. He is a trustee of the Center for American Progress, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Resources for the Future, and a life trustee the Urban Institute.

B.A. - History and Economics, Amherst College
B.S. - Chemical Engineering, MIT
Ph.D. - Physical Chemistry, MIT

Deutch's lecture at the Johnson Symposium:
"Chemistry - Opportunities and Needs - revisiting an old idea"

In 1965, a National Research Council committee, chaired by Frank Westheimer, issued a report assessing the status and need of basic chemistry research in the United States. The report was largely successful in its plea for more federal money and hence it has been widely imitated by many other such "studies." The Westheimer report also prompted an uncharacteristic and welcome self examination of where the field of chemistry should be going. I will argue that Chemistry needs to take sharply different directions in both research and education to make the contribution it should to improving society.


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