Department of the Air Force Nomination of Hans M. Mark To Be Secretary.

The President today announced that he will nominate Hans M. Mark, of Alexandria, Va., to be Secretary of the Air Force. He would replace John C. Stetson, who has resigned. Mark is currently Under Secretary of the Air Force.

He was born June 17, 1929, in Mannheim, Germany. He came to the United States in 1940 and became a citizen in 1945. He received an A.B. in physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1951 and a Ph.D. in physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1954.

In 1954-55 Mark was a research associate at M.I.T. and acting head of the Neutron Physics Group at the Laboratory for Nuclear Science there. In 1955-56 he was a research physicist at the University of California at Berkeley, and from 1956 to 1958, he did research at the university's Lawrence Radiation Laboratory. In 1957-58 he was also a lecturer in physics at Berkeley.

From 1958 to 1960, Mark was an assistant professor of physics at M.I.T. From 1960 to 1969, he was at Berkeley, serving on the faculty in nuclear engineering, doing research at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, and administering the Berkeley research reactor.

From 1969 until his appointment as Under Secretary in 1977, Mark was Director of the Ames Research Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He also served as a lecturer in applied science at the University of California at Davis from 1969 to 1973 and as a consulting professor of engineering at Stanford University from 1973 to 1977.