Dr. Hamilton joined the faculty of Vanderbilt University in 1958 and served as chairman of the Department of Physics and Astronomy for six years. Since 1992, he has served as the Landon C. Garland Distinguished Professor of Physics. Previous positions included visiting professor at the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and at the University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany. He played a crucial role in two Oak Ridge projects, serving as founder/chair of the University Isotope Separator at Oak Ridge (UNISOR) and as founder/director of the Joint Institute for Heavy Ion Research. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is a recipient of the Jesse Beams Gold Medal for Outstanding Research, the Alexander von Humboldt Prize, and the George Pegram Award for Outstanding Teaching. He was named Most Outstanding Professor at Vanderbilt by student vote in 1989 and Professor of the Year in the State of Tennessee by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education in 1991.
A native of Ferriday, Louisiana, Dr. Hamilton received a B.S. degree from Mississippi College and an M.S. and a Ph.D. from Indiana University. He holds honorary degrees from Mississippi College and from Johannn Wolfgang Goethe Universitat in Frankfurt, Germany. His work has been published more than 500 times in nuclear physics publications, and he is the co-author of eight research books, an undergraduate textbook, and two books for middle- and high-school students.
Dr. Krebs was sworn in as Director of the Office of Energy Research in November of 1993. As director, she manages the OER, one of the largest sponsors of basic research in the Federal government. The OER's annual budget of approximately $3 billion funds DOE's programs in basic energy sciences, high energy and nuclear physics, biological and environmental research, university and science education, fusion energy, and scientific computing. Dr. Krebs also advises the Energy Secretary on science and technology issues that cut across DOE programs, on the transfer of technology from DOE labs to industry, on science education and training activities, and on the management of the department's laboratories.
Before assuming her current position, Dr. Krebs had served as associate laboratory director for planning and development at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, where she was responsible for a strategic scientific program planning process, and for technology transfer planning and policy development. She previously served as staff director of the Subcommittee on Energy Development and Applications of the House of Representatives' Committee on Science and Technology. She received the A.B. and Ph.D. in physics from the Catholic University of America and was a National Science Foundation Fellow.
In October 1993, Dr. Lane was sworn in as director of the National Science Foundation, an independent agency of the Federal Government that provides support for research and education in science, mathematics, and engineering.
Before becoming NSF director, Dr. Lane was provost and professor of physics at Rice University, a position he had held since 1986. His tenure at Rice began in 1966, when he joined the Department of Physics as an assistant professor. He later served as professor of physics and space physics and astronomy. He left Rice from 1984 to 1986 to serve as chancellor of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. In addition, while on leave from Rice from 1979 to 1980, he worked for the NSF as director of the Division of Physics. Dr. Lane has authored or co-authored more than 90 scientific papers and publications, including a textbook on quantum physics. He received both an NSF Post-doctoral Fellowship and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship. A past president of Sigma Xi National Research Society, he also was a two-time recipient of the Rice University George R. Brown Prize for Superior Teaching. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for Advancement of Science. A native of Oklahoma City, Dr. Lane earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Oklahoma.
In his current position, which he has held since 1990, Dr. McTague directs the operations of Ford Research Laboratories, Environmental and Safety Engineering, New Generation Vehicle Programs, and Corporate Technical Strategy. He previously had served as Ford's vice president, Research, after having held the position of acting science advisor to the President of the United States. In February 1990, Dr. McTague was appointed by President George Bush to his council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
Previously, Dr. McTague was a member of the North American Rockwell Science Center in Los Angeles, a member of the chemistry faculty at UCLA, chairman of the National Synchrotron Light Source Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and an adjunct professor of chemistry at Columbia University. He is a member of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Bound and chairman of the Board of Overseers of Fermilab. Dr. McTague, a physical chemist, received a B.S. degree from Georgetown University and a Ph.D. from Brown University.
Dr. Shull, who worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 1946 to 1955, shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics. His award was for his contributions to the early development of neutron diffraction, a technique using the elastic scattering of neutrons to determine the structure of matter (the location of atoms within a crystalline environment). This work was done while he was an ORNL Physics Division staff member performing research at the Graphite Reactor. Dr. Shull's efforts helped lay the foundation for all subsequent work around the world using neutrons to study the structure and dynamics of matter.
A native of Pittsburgh, Dr. Shull holds a B.S. degree from Carnegie Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from New York University. He joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty in 1955, where he began a neutron diffraction program at the MIT Research Reactor. He maintained an innovative research program at MIT until his retirement in 1986. Dr. Shull received the Buckley Prize from the American Physical Society in 1956 and the Humboldt Senior Scientist Award in 1980. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Trivelpiece become the director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a vice president of Lockheed Martin Energy Systems in 1989. He oversees research and development programs and associated support operations at ORNL, one of the Department of Energy's multiprogram energy laboratories. Activities at ORNL include applied research and engineering development in support of DOE's fusion, fission, conservation, and fossil energy technology programs, and basic scientific research in the physical and life sciences. These activities involve a staff of more than 5,000 and a budget of some $500 million.
He came to ORNL after serving as executive officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Trivelpiece previously had been director of the Office of Energy Research at DOE. He also had served as corporate vice president, Science Applications, Inc.; vice president for engineering and research, Maxwell Laboratories; and as a professor at both the University of Maryland and the University of California, Berkeley. A native Californian, Dr. Trivelpiece received a B.S. degree from California Polytechnic State University and an M.S. and a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. He was a Fulbright Scholar and a Guggenheim Fellow. Dr. Trivelpiece is a Fellow of AAAS, the American Physical Society, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.