Frank Press, senior fellow with the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C., will give a free, public lecture at Cornell University on Monday, Oct. 21.

The lecture, "Out of Chaos: A Better Way to Support Science," is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Monday in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall.

Press, former president of the National Academy of Sciences, is an A.D. White Professor-at- Large at Cornell this semester. Press earned a doctorate in geophysics from Columbia University and has directed the Seismological Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology and has chaired the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy under President Jimmy Carter, one of four U.S. presidents he has advised on scientific issues.

Press is internationally recognized for his study of the sea floor and of the earth's crust and deep interior and helped bring about the International Geophysical year, the first worldwide attempt to measure and map various geophysical phenomena. His is co-author of the widely used textbook Earth.

The Program for Andrew D. White Professors-at-Large was started in 1965 in honor of Cornell's centennial and is named after Cornell's first president, with whom the idea originated. Concerned that the school's first faculty members, "remote from great cities and centers of thought and action, [might] lose connection with the world at large, save through books," White proposed a system of non-resident professors, chosen for their achievements in diverse disciplines and walks of life, who would visit the university periodically over extended periods.