Robert Frosch, US physicist
Robert Alan Frosch (1928-2020), US physicist. Frosch received his PhD in physics from Columbia University in 1952. He stayed at Columbia as a research scientist and director of research programs contracted to the Office of Naval Research until moving to the US Department of Defence in 1963. He held a number of leadership roles in research and development at the Department before becoming Assistant Executive Director of the United Nations Environmental Program in 1973. From 1977 to 1981 he was NASA's fifth administrator, overseeing the continuation of the development of the Space Shuttle program. In 1982 he became Vice President of General Motors Research Laboratories, a job he retired from in 1993.
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