 In 1960 , Weinberg was appointed to the President 's Science Advisory Committee in the Eisenhower administration and later served on it in the Kennedy administration . After leaving the ORNL in 1973 , he was named director of the Office of Energy Research and Development in Washington , D.C. , in 1974 . The following year he founded and became the first director of the Institute for Energy Analysis at Oak Ridge Associated Universities ( ORAU ) . 
