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Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Frank Press, Geophysicist, U.S. Science Adviser, Dies at 95
February 08, 2020
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Feb. 8 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news:

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- An advocate of international scientific cooperation, Press served as an MIT department head and lifetime MIT Corporation member.

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Frank Press, a noted geophysicist and science adviser to four U.S. presidents, died Jan. 29 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was 95.

Press, an MIT Corporation life member emeritus, was . . .

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