Miscellaneous: Former candidate for Harvard Law School Dean. Widely seen as the successor to Chicago President Hanna H. Gray.
Strengths: Excellent reputation among students, faculty and administrators. Record as a good fundraiser. Works closely with Gray who is on the search committee.
Weaknesses: No experience at Harvard University.
Personal: Born December 25, 1937 in Hamburg, Germany. Married, one daughter.
Trivia: Enjoys reading Proust in the evenings.
MICHAEL B. MCELROY
Age: 51
Occupation: Rotch professor of atmospheric science and chair, earth an planetary sciences department, Harvard University since 1986.
Education: Queen's University, B.A. 1960.
Queen's University, Ph.D. 1962.
Academic Field: Atmospheric science
Experience: Rotch professor of atmospheric science, Harvard 1970 to present.
Director, Harvard Center for Earth and Planetary Physics 1975-78. Member, 1970-86.
Physicist, Kitt Peak National Observatory 1963-70.
Project associate, University of Wisconsin Theoretical Chemistry Institute, 1962-63.
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