INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN SCIENCE 



THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1985 



House of Representatives, 

 Committee on Science and Technology, 



Task Force on Science Policy, 



Washington, DC. 



The task force met, pursuant to recess, at 10:12 a.m., in room 

 2318, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Don Fuqua (chairman 

 of the task force) presiding. 



Mr. Fuqua. Today's hearing is the third of a series of 4 days of 

 hearings on international cooperation in science. These hearings 

 are considering three sets of issues: One, international cooperation 

 in "big science"; two, the impact of international cooperation on re- 

 search priorities; and, three, the coordination and management of 

 international cooperative research. 



Today's first witness is Dr. John McTague, Deputy Director of 

 the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Dr. McTague is a dis- 

 tinguished scientist in his own right and served as Director of the 

 National Synchrotron Light Source at the Brookhaven National 

 Laboratory prior to assuming his present duties. 



Dr. McTague, we are very pleased to have you, and you may pro- 

 ceed. 



[A biographical sketch of Dr. McTague follows:] 



Dr. John P. McTague 



Dr. John P. McTague was appointed Deputy Director, Office of Science and Tech- 

 nology Policy, Executive Office of the President, on November 8, 1983. Following 

 nomination by President Reagan he was confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate. 



Dr. McTague was born in Jersey City, NJ, on November 28, 1938. Upon comple- 

 tion of high school in the New York area he entered Georgetown University and 

 received his B.S. degree in chemistry with honors in 1960, and his Ph.D. in physical 

 chemistry from Brown University in 1965. 



From 1964 to 1970, Dr. McTague was a member of the technical staff at the North 

 American Rockwell Science Center. He then became professor of chemistry and 

 member of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the University of 

 California at Los Angeles until 1982 at which time he was appointed chairman of 

 the National Synchrotron Light Source Department at Brookhaven National Labo- 

 ratory. Dr. McTague was also adjunct professor of chemistry at Columbia Universi- 

 ty. 



Dr. McTague is the author of over 80 experimental and theoretical papers in con- 

 densed matter physics and chemistry. He is a member of the American Chemical 

 Society and a fellow of the American Physical Society, and has served as associate 

 editor of the Journal of Chemical Physics. Dr. McTague has received senior fellow- 

 ships from A.P. Sloan, John Simon Guggenheim, and NATO. In 1975 he was hon- 

 ored with the California Section Award of the American Chemical Society. 



Dr. McTague is married, has four children and resides in Potomac, MD. 



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