National Research Council Committee on Growth, and on the U.S. Committee for the International Geophysical Year. He was the first chairman of the Geophysical Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences and home secretary of the National Academy of Sciences. Personal life Merle Tuve had two brothers: George Lewis Tuve, who was a professor of mechanical engineering and Richard Larsen Tuve, who was an inventor and chemist. Their sister, Rosemond Tuve was an author and professor of Renaissance Literature at Connecticut College. Merle Tuve was married in 1927 to Winifred Gray Whitman. Merle and Winifred had two children, Trygve and Lucy. Both earned Ph.D. degrees and pursued scientific careers. Honors For his service to the nation during World War II, Tuve received the Presidential Medal for Merit from President Harry S. Truman and was named an Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1948. Mount Tuve in Ellsworth Land in Antarctica was named in honor of Merle Anthony Tuve. The Library of Congress holds his papers in more than 400 archival boxes. Awards William Bowie Medal awarded by the American Geophysical Union Howard N. Potts Medal presented by the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Comstock Prize in Physics awarded by the National Academy of Sciences (1948) Order of the Condor of the Andes issued by the nation of Bolivia Cosmos Club Award issued by the Cosmos Club John Scott Award issued by the City of Philadelphia Selected works Velocity structures in Hydrogen Profiles: A sky atlas of neutral hydrogen emission (1973) The Third Cosmos Club Award: Merle A. Tuve (1966) The Forces Which Govern the Atomic Nucleus (1938) References Related reading Tuve, George Lewis The Tuve-Tuff-Tew brothers: Five Norwegian immigrants and their families (Tuve. 1977) Evans, Margaret Rosemond Tuve. A Life of The Mind (Peter E. Randall Publisher. 2004) External links Oral History Transcript — Dr. Merle Tuve Dr. Merle A. Tuve The Scientific Monthly, February 1931 1901 births 1982 deaths American people of Norwegian descent People from Canton, South Dakota University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering alumni American geophysicists Howard N. Potts Medal recipients Fellows of the American Physical Society