[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 49 (Thursday, April 5, 2001)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E584]
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  IN RECOGNITION OF DR. EDWARD C. STONE, RETIRING DIRECTOR OF THE JET 
                         PROPULSION LABORATORY

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                            HON. ADAM SCHIFF

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, April 4, 2001

  Mr. SCHIFF. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in recognition of Dr. Edward C. 
Stone, retiring Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, 
California. After ten years of distinguished service at JPL, Dr. Stone 
will be returning to full-time teaching and research at the California 
Institute of Technology, where he has taught since 1967. Dr. Stone, the 
David Morrisroe Professor of Physics, has been widely regarded as an 
energetic and thoughtful leader at JPL.
  Since his first cosmic-ray experiments on Discoverer satellites in 
1961, Dr. Stone has been a principal investigator on nine NASA 
spacecraft missions and a co-investigator on five other NASA missions 
for which he developed high resolution instruments for measuring the 
isotopic and elemental composition of energetic cosmic-ray nuclei. 
Using these instruments, Dr. Stone and his colleagues undertook some of 
the first studies of the isotopic composition of three distinct samples 
of matter. During his tenure at JPL, Dr. Stone's many accomplishments 
include Galileo's five-year orbital mission to Jupiter, the launch of 
Assini to Saturn, as well as a new generation of Earth sciences 
satellites such as TOPEX/Poseidon and SeaWinds, and the spectacularly 
successful Mars Pathfinder landing in 1997.
  He has transformed the direction of JPL from administering a few 
large projects to managing many new, smaller exploration missions. Dr. 
Stone's vision has revolutionized the way JPL does business, thus 
expanding its impact on the field of astrophysics and planetary 
science. He is a remarkable scientist, whose brilliance is coupled with 
his ability to lead. Dr. Stone exemplifies integrity, energy, and 
leadership, and his deep commitment to JPL and its goals has been the 
touchstone of the Laboratory's success. I would like to commend Dr. 
Stone for his extraordinary dedication and thank him for his decade of 
service.

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