2005 in Science - Appointments

Appointments

• January 26 – The NIH announce that Elizabeth Nabel will succeed Claude Lenfant as director of the US National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
• February 7 – The National Academy of Sciences elects Ralph Cicerone as its next president, to begin his 6-year term on July 1. He takes over from Bruce Alberts.
• February 25
  • – Robert Kirby-Harris is appointed as Chief Executive of the UK's Institute of Physics.
  • – Keith Mason is appointed as the new head of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council in the UK.
  • – Daniel Höchli is appointed director of the Swiss National Science Foundation.
• April 13 – Michael D. Griffin is confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the next NASA administrator, succeeding Sean O'Keefe.
• December 6 – Kaname Ikeda is appointed as first Director General of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor.