Frederick Seitz (July 4, 1911-) is an American scientist. July 4 is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 180 days remaining. ... 1911 was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ...

Seitz says his research interests "center on general science, both physical and biological." [1]. Formerly, he was a solid state physicist. He served as the president of the National Academy of Sciences from 1965 until 1968, when he became the president of Rockefeller University. He retired from that position in 1978. Solid-state physics, the largest branch of condensed matter physics, is the study of rigid matter, or solids. ... A physicist is a scientist trained in physics. ... President Harding and the National Academy of Sciences at the White House, Washington, DC, April 1921 The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine. ... 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Rockefeller University is a small private university focusing primarily on graduate education and research in the biomedical fields, located in the southeasternmost corner of the Upper East Side of Manhattan island in New York City, New York. ... 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ...

Seitz studied under Eugene Wigner at Princeton University, graduating in 1934. They invented the Wigner-Seitz unit cell, which is an important concept in solid state physics. Eugene Wigner (left) and Alvin Weinberg Eugene Paul Wigner (Hungarian Wigner Pál Jenő) (November 17, 1902 – January 1, 1995) was a Hungarian physicist and mathematician. ... For other Princetons, see Princeton. ... 1934 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... In solid state physics, a Wigner-Seitz cell is a primitive lattice cell of a crystalline lattice. ...

Seitz has commented on the role of curiosity in the process of scientific discovery:

"Over a long time, things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs." [2]

Seitz questions the global warming theory (though he accepts the recent rise in temperature as real [3]) and decries the politicization of science which he says retards research into views which oppose the prevailing climate of support for environmentalist views. He supports the position of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM) on global warming and in an open letter invited scientists to sign the OISM's global warming petition. Also Seitz signed the 1995 Leipzig Declaration. Global mean surface temperatures 1856-2004 Mean temperature anomalies during the period 1995 to 2004 with respect to the average temperatures from 1940 to 1980 Global warming is a term used to describe the increase over time of the average temperature of the Earths atmosphere and oceans. ... The politicization of science occurs when governments, businesses, and lobby groups use legal or economic pressure to influence the findings of scientific research, especially when this influence retards the progress of science. ... The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM) describes itself as a small research institute that studies biochemistry, diagnostic medicine, nutrition, preventive medicine and the molecular biology of aging. ... Global mean surface temperatures 1856-2004 Mean temperature anomalies during the period 1995 to 2004 with respect to the average temperatures from 1940 to 1980 Global warming is a term used to describe the increase over time of the average temperature of the Earths atmosphere and oceans. ... The Oregon Petition is the name commonly given to a petition opposed to the Kyoto protocol, organised by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine between 1999 and 2001, shortly before the United States was expected to ratify the protocol. ... This article is about the climate change declarations, not the Leipzig Declaration on Conservation and Sustainable Utilization of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture The Leipzig Declaration on Global Climate Change is a statement signed by 80 academics and 25 meteorologists, repudiating the oft-repeated claim that there is...

Positions held

• Past President, National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A.
• President Emeritus, Rockefeller University
• Chair of Fred Singer's Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP).

Siegfried Frederick Singer (born September 27, 1924) was an atmospheric physicist. ... The Science & Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) is a non-profit educational group founded by retired atmospheric physicist S. Fred Singer. ...

External links

• A Conversation with Dr. Frederick Seitz - September 3, 1997
• another mini-bio
• Disinfopedia article
• Do people cause global warming?