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Commentary
Nature 450, 347-348 (15 November 2007) | doi:10.1038/450347a; Published online 14 November 2007
Who has the ear of the president?
Roger Pielke, Jr1
- Roger Pielke Jr is at the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA.
Email: pielke@colorado.edu
Abstract
50 years after the appointment of the first presidential science adviser, the White House is flooded with scientific information. Roger Pielke Jr suggests how the next administration might develop ways to use it best.
On 15 November 1957, as part of his response to the Soviet launch of Sputnik, President Dwight Eisenhower swore in James Killian, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, to the newly created position of special assistant to the president for science and technology. Since then, 14 men — almost all physicists — have served 10 presidents as 'science adviser', as the position is more commonly known.
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