Abstract
Norman P. Neureiter has been named the 63rd recipient of the National Academy of Sciences’ prestigious Public Welfare Medal. He is being honored for elevating the status of science and technology at the State Department. In September 2000, Neureiter became the first science and technology adviser to the secretary of state. During his threeyear term, he advised Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell and led the U.S. in international cooperation in science and technology. The number of science and diplomacy fellows in the Department increased fivefold under his tenure. Neureiter, who now works for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, received a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Northwestern University, and in 1957 became a research chemist for Humble Oil & Refining. He served as an interpreter for the State Department during U.S.-Soviet nuclear test-ban treaty negotiations in the early 1960s. He then joined the International Affairs Office of the National Science Foundation, eventually becomi...
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