Ken Atchison
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.                                                          
April 26, 1991
(Phone:  202/453-8400)                                                                              
1 P.M. EDT


RELEASE 91-65

NASA LEWIS RESEARCH CENTER DEPUTY DIRECTOR NAMED


     The NASA Administrator Richard Truly today announced the 
appointment of Dr. J. Stuart Fordyce as Deputy Director of 
NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, effective immediately.

     Dr. Fordyce has been Director of Aerospace Technology at 
Lewis since 1984 and has had senior management responsibility 
for NASA Lewis' efforts in aeropropulsion materials and 
structures research, space power, propulsion, communications 
and advanced electronics technologies, energy technology and 
microgravity materials science.

     Since joining the Lewis staff in 1966, Dr. Fordyce has 
held a series of increasingly responsible positions at Lewis 
including Chief, Space Power Technology Division, 1982-1984; 
Deputy Division Chief, 1980-1982; Chief, Electrochemistry 
Branch.  He also has contributed over 30 reports and articles 
in space energy conversion system technologies, urban air 
pollution, solid ionic conduction, electrocatalysis, 
spectroscopy of complexes in high temperature molten salts and 
photochemical kinetics.

     Dr. Fordyce received the A.B. degree from Dartmouth 
College and the PhD in physical chemistry from the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  He resides with his 
wife, Beverly, in Fairview Park, Ohio.

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