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    Personal Information

      Born: December 4, 1931, Basel Switzerland

      Naturalized: August 9, 1978

      Married: Lucienne Grunder

      Children: Anita, Miriam and Christian Grunder


    Education

    • Ph.D., Experimental Nuclear Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland, 1967

    • M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Federal Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany,1958


    Career

    • 5/85  -  Present:Director, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

    • 10/83 - 4/85 Deputy Director, General Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

    • 6/82 - 6/83: Special Assistant for Advanced Facilities, Division of High Energy and N uclear Physics, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington,DC

    • 1979 - 1983: Associate Director, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and Head, Accelerator and Fusion Research Division

    • 1973 - 1979: LBL Senior Staff Scientist, Accelerator Division Group Leader for SuperHILAC-Bevatron/Bevalac Operation and Development, Study of a Dedicated Medical Accelerator

    • 1967 - 1973: LBL Staff Scientist, Accelerator Division, Bevatron Development Group Resonant Extraction, Beam Dynamics, and Ion-Electron Instability

    • 1964 - 1967: Ph.D. Thesis at the University of Basel and Collaboration with Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research (SIN), Villigan, Switzerland, on Meson Factory Project; Thesis: "The T(d,n)4He Reaction with Polarized Deuterons at Energies above the 107 keV Resonance"

    • 1965: Nuclear Physics Work at the 88-Inch Cyclotron with H. Conzett, E. Baumgartner: Double Scattering Experiment (d- 4He)

    • 1962 - 1964: LBL Group Leader of 88-Inch Cyclotron Operation; StartUp and Commissioning of 88-Inch Cyclotron; Beam and Experimental Area Developments

    • 1959 - 1962: LBL Mechanical Engineering Department, Bevatron Related Work, MG sets, Magnet Design and Instrumentation


    Professional Organizations

    • American Physical Society

        Committee on International Scientific Affairs, Present-1999

        Council, Jan. 1997-Dec. 1997

        Division of Physics of Beam Committee, Chairman, 1991-1993, Member, 1991-Present

        Division of Nuclear Physics Executive Board, Jan. 1997-Dec. 1997

    • American Association for the Advancement of Science

    • European Physical Society

    • Swiss Physical Society


    Committees

    • 1997 - present: FESAC Panel on the International Thermonuclear Energy Reactor C hairman

    • 1992 - 1994: BESAC Panel on Spallation Sources, Chairman

    • 1996-Present: NAS/NRC Inertial Confinement Fusion Program Review Committee

    • 1991 - 1995: National Research Council on Seperations Technology and Transmutation Systems

    • 1990: NASA Advisory Committee

    • 1990 - 1995: Dept. of Energy Joint Coordinating Committee on the Fundamental Properties of Matter

    • 1990: Governor's Task Force 2000 Committee

    • 1990 - 1991: High Energy Physics Advisory Panel Superconducting Super Collider Cost Estimate Oversight Subpanel

    • 1990: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Advisory Committee for the Laboratory for Nuclear Physics

    • 1989 - 1991: Universities Research Association Visiting Committee

    • 1988 - 1989: Compact Ignition Tokomak Review Board

    • 1988 - Present: BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Policy Committee

    • 1987 - Present: US Particle Accelerator School Steering Committee

    • 1987 - Present: Los Alamos Advisory Board, AT Division, Chairman

    • 1987 - 1990: National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for Physics

    • 1986 - Present: National Institute of Standards and Technology Panel for Radiation Research

    • 1983 - 1988: Department of Energy, High Energy Physics Advisory Panel

    • 1986 - 1988: National Science Foundation Subcommittee for Oversight Review

    • 1984: Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Technical Committee & Review Board, Brookhaven National Laboratory

    • 1983 - 1984: Department of Energy/National Science Foundation, Nuclear Science Advisory Committee

    • 1983: Chairman, Technical Subpanel of the NSAC Electron Facilities Panel

    • 1983 - 1984: National Science Foundation, Aladdin Site Review, University of Wisconsin

    • National Cancer Institute Site Reviews: Pion Facility for Stanford Medical Center, Edward Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, and Massachusetts General Hospital

    • 1975: Policy Review Committee: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Holifield Heavy Ion Research Facility

    • 1978 - 1984: Scientific Council:Gesellschaft fur Schwerionenforschung (GSI), Darmstadt, Germany

    • 1996-Present: Hampton Roads Partnership, Executive/Tehnology Committees

    • 1994-Present: Greater Peninsula Now

    • July 1997: International Thermonuclear Energy Reactor Project


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