Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is a federally funded research and development center in Oak Ridge,Tennessee,United States. Founded in 1943,the laboratory is now sponsored by the United States Department of Energy and administered by UT–Battelle,LLC.
The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) is an accelerator-based neutron source facility in the U.S. that provides the most intense pulsed neutron beams in the world for scientific research and industrial development. Each year,the facility hosts hundreds of researchers from universities,national laboratories,and industry,who conduct basic and applied research and technology development using neutrons. SNS is part of Oak Ridge National Laboratory,which is managed by UT-Battelle for the United States Department of Energy (DOE). SNS is a DOE Office of Science user facility,and it is open to scientists and researchers from all over the world.
Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) is a consortium of American universities headquartered in Oak Ridge,Tennessee,with offices in Arvada,Colorado and Cincinnati,Ohio and staff at other locations across the country.
Alvin Martin Weinberg was an American nuclear physicist who was the administrator of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) during and after the Manhattan Project. He came to Oak Ridge,Tennessee,in 1945 and remained there until his death in 2006. He was the first to use the term "Faustian bargain" to describe nuclear energy.
The National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) is a United States Department of Energy (DOE) Leadership Computing Facility that houses the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF),a DOE Office of Science User Facility charged with helping researchers solve challenging scientific problems of global interest with a combination of leading high-performance computing (HPC) resources and international expertise in scientific computing.
Alvin William Trivelpiece was an American physicist whose varied career included positions as director of the Office of Energy Research of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE),executive officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),and director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He was also a professor of physics and a corporate executive. Trivelpiece's research focused on plasma physics,controlled thermonuclear research,and particle accelerators. He received several patents for accelerators and microwave devices. He died in Rancho Santa Margarita,California in August 2022 at the age of 91.
Amit Goyal is a SUNY Distinguished Professor and a SUNY Empire Innovation Professor at SUNY-Buffalo. He leads the Laboratory for Heteroepitaxial Growth of Functional Materials &Devices. He is also Director of the New York State Center of Excellence in Plastics Recycling Research &Innovation,an externally funded center with initial funding of $4.5M for three years at SUNY-Buffalo. He is the founding director of the multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary RENEW Institute at SUNY-Buffalo in Buffalo,New York and served as director from 2015-2021. RENEW is an internally funded research institute at SUNY-Buffalo. For his contributions to UB,in 2019,he was awarded the University at Buffalo or SUNY-Buffalo President's Medal,which recognizes “outstanding scholarly or artistic achievements,humanitarian acts,contributions of time or treasure,exemplary leadership or any other major contribution to the development of the University at Buffalo and the quality of life in the UB community.”This is one of the highest recognitions given at the university.
Stephen K. Streiffer is an American materials scientist who began serving as the director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 2023. Prior to this position,he served as interim director at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Streiffer joined Stanford University in 2022 as vice present for SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory after 24 years at Argonne National Laboratory.
Stephen E. Nagler is a Canadian condensed matter and materials science physicist. Nagler is the Corporate Research Fellow of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the Director of the laboratory's Quantum Condensed Matter Division. He is an adjunct professor with the Department of Physics at the University of Tennessee.
Thomas Mason is a Canadian-American condensed-matter physicist who serves as the director of Los Alamos National Laboratory. Prior to this appointment,he had been an executive at Battelle Memorial Institute from 2017 to 2018,and the director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 2007 to 2017. Mason moved to Oak Ridge in 1998 at the start of construction of the Spallation Neutron Source which he led from 2001 until project completion in 2006.
Clarice Evone Phelps (née Salone) is an American nuclear chemist researching the processing of radioactive transuranic elements at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). She was part of ORNL's team that collaborated with the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research to discover tennessine. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) recognizes her as the first African-American woman to be involved with the discovery of a chemical element.
Georgia "Gina" D. Tourassi is the Director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory health data sciences institute and adjunct Professor of radiology at Duke University. She works on biomedical informatics,computer-aided diagnosis and artificial intelligence (AI) in health care.
Linda L. Horton is an American materials scientist and the director of the Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES) at the United States Department of Energy. She is also acting in the role of director of the BES' Materials Sciences and Engineering Division.
Athena Safa Sefat,born 1977 in Iran is a Canadian/American physicist,with research focus on quantum materials and correlated phenomena. She was a senior scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and led the DOE Basic Energy Science on "Probing Competing Chemical,Electronic,and Spin Correlations for Quantum Materials Functionality". She is currently a Program Manager at U.S. Department of Energy (DOE),Office of Science,Basic Energy Sciences,with Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering.
Troy Alan Carter is an American plasma physicist and the Director of Fusion Energy Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He was formerly a professor at the University of California,Los Angeles. He was co-awarded the 2002 John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research for his work on driven magnetic reconnection in a laboratory plasma.
David Edward Reichle is an American ecologist who worked at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He is known for his pioneering research on the movement of radionuclides in the environment and the carbon metabolism of forest ecosystems. From 1967 to 1981 he was co-chair of Woodlands for the International Biological Programme. He served as Director of ORNL’s Environmental Sciences Division (1986-1990) and retired in 2000 as Associate Director.
Miaofang Chi is a distinguished scientist at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences in Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Her primary research interests are understanding interfacial charge transfer and mass transport behavior in energy and quantum materials and systems by advancing and employing novel electron microscopy techniques,such as in situ and cryogenic scanning transmission electron microscopy. She was awarded the 2016 Microscopy Society of America Burton Medal and the 2019 Microanalysis Society Kurt Heinrich Award. She was named to Clarivate's list of Highly Cited Researchers in 2018 and 2020.
Johney Green is an American scientist who is the Associate Laboratory Director for Mechanical and Thermal Engineering Sciences at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. His research considers additive manufacturing and renewable energy systems. He is Chairman of the National GEM Consortium.
Roderick Jackson is an American engineer and inventor who is based at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Whilst working at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory,Jackson oversaw the demonstration of a fully 3D-printed house with solar panels that could wirelessly power a 3D-printed car.
Ilias Belharouak is a Moroccan-American chemist and scientist. He is a corporate fellow who heads the electrification section at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee,USA. He has contributed to research in high-power density and high-energy density energy storage materials for use in lithium-ion,sodium-ion,solid-state batteries and lithium-sulfur batteries.
