Meyerson, Martin.

President of the University of Pennsylvania from 1970 to 1981.

Martin Meyerson was born in New York City in 1922. With an A.B. degree from Columbia University in 1942 and a master of city planning degree from Harvard University in 1949, he was assistant professor in the planning program of the University of Chicago from 1948 to 1952 and associate professor and then professor of city and regional planning at Penn from 1952-1957. He joined the Harvard University faculty in 1957 and was Williams Professor of City Planning and Urban Research from 1957 to 1963 and director of the MIT-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies from 1959 to 1963. Meyerson served the University of California at Berkeley as professor of urban development and dean of the College of Environmental Design from 1963 to 1966. He was appointed President of the University of Buffalo in 1966 and held that position until 1970 when he was appointed President of the University of Pennsylvania. He retired from the Penn presidency in 1981.

Meyerson has worked on problems of urban development for governments of foreign countries and private groups overseas and was an adviser for the United Nations in Japan, Yugoslavia and Indonesia. He was a founder and served as a governor of the Centre for Environmental Studies in London in the 1970s.