Nomination of John H. Moore To Be Deputy Director of the National Science Foundation

The President today announced his intention to nominate John H. Moore to be Deputy Director of the National Science Foundation. He would succeed Donald Newton Langenberg.

Mr. Moore is currently associate director and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Previously, he was associate director of the Law and Economics Center, Emory University (1981), and associate director of the Law and Economics Center, University of Miami (1977-1981). He was at the University of Virginia for 14 years, serving as research assistant (1963-1965), teaching assistant (1965-1966), assistant professor (1966-1970), and associate professor (1970-1977).

Mr. Moore graduated from the University of Michigan (B.S.E., 1958; M.B.A. 1959) and the University of Virginia (Ph.D., 1966). He is married, has two children, and resides in Palo Alto, CA. He was born April 19, 1935, in Grand Forks, ND.