Dr. Sidney Drell is a physicist and arms control specialist. A faculty member at Stanford University since 1956, he is a Professor of Theoretical Physics (Emeritus) at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University, (of which he was also Deputy Director until retiring), and is a Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. For many years, Dr. Drell has provided technical advice to the U.S. Government on technical issues.
Among the many honors he received for his scientific achievements and contributions as an advisor to the U.S. Government, Dr. Drell has received a MacArthur Foundation prize fellowship, the Enrico Fermi Award, the Heinz Award for Public Policy, the Rumford Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and honorary doctoral degrees from the University of Illinois, Tel Aviv University, and the Weizmann Institute of Science, on whose Board of Governors he serves. He was also elected to the National Academy of Sciences.