Photos:
(left) Hugh Montgomery on the Jefferson Lab dining deck following lunch with students, May, 2016
(center) Hugh Montgomery addresses staff at his welcome picnic, September 10, 2008.
(right) Hugh Montgomery's Official Jefferson Lab photo.
Table of Contents
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| Repository: | Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility |
| Jefferson Lab Archives | |
| 12000 Jefferson Ave., Room L203A | |
| Newport News, VA 23606 | |
| Phone: (757) 269-7805 | |
| Fax: (757) 269-5427 | |
| Email: history@jlab.org | |
| https://www.jlab.org/info_resources/archives | |
| Provenance: | Hugh Montgomery |
| Title: | Office of the Director: the Papers of Hugh Montgomery |
| Dates: | 2008-2016 |
| Size: | Analog: 4 Hollinger drop-front telescope boxes, 2 Hollinger document boxes; 4.08 linear feet Digital: 117 files; 161 megabytes |
| Materials in collection: | Journals, notes, correspondence, presentations |
| Abstract: | Dr. Hugh E. Montgomery was the third Director of Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility from 2 September 2008 - 2 April 2017. |
| Identification number: | JL.002-3 |
| Location: | Jefferson Lab Archives |
| Language: | English |
Biographical Note
Hugh E. Montgomery was born in the early spring of 1948 in Yorkshire, England. He earned a bachelor's and doctorate in physics from Manchester University in England. Taking a post-doctoral position with Daresbury Nuclear Physics Laboratory, Dr. Montgomery (or Mont as he is affectionately called), began working at CERN (The European Organization for Nuclear Research) and became a staff member in 1978.
In 1983, Mont left CERN to work as a scientist at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois. In 1989, he became the Deputy Head of the Research Division of Fermilab; then working on the DZero Experiment, he served as Spokesman from 1993 to 1999. In 1995 DZero along with the CDF experiment discovered the top quark. In 2008, after six years as the Fermilab Associate Director for Research and twenty-five years total at FNAL, Mont joined Jefferson Lab as its Director.
Dr. Montgomery has served on many panels and committees in promotion of the sciences both in the United States and abroad; he continues to do so. He has delivered courses all over the world and helped to develop courses as well. Mont's research interests include lepton scattering, hadron collider physics and large scale experiments.
Scope and Content
This collection pertains to Dr. Hugh Montgomery's tenure as the director of Jefferson Lab with his journals recording his transition from Fermilab to Jefferson Lab. Dr. Montgomery's tenure saw the power of CEBAF doubled to 12 GeV; the Technology, Engineering and Development Facility (TEDF) constructed (which would go one to receive to LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold Awards); and the layout of Jefferson Lab turned more into a campus-style with better access to buildings and facilities.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in chronological order as it was accessioned by the Jefferson Lab History Project. Minor sorting was done to keep like items together.
Presentations have been digitized and are available in the digital collections. Dr. Montgomery also wrote forty "Montages" to the JLab community which are digitally archived on the Jefferson Lab servers. These memos were letters to the Jefferson Lab community to apprised of events and activities that impacted its users and members. Please see the archives staff if you need access to these presentations or Montages.
Series I: Journals. These are the fifteen journals that Dr. Montgomery kept as the Director. Within are thoughts, calculations, appointments, travel itineraries, and various notations that Dr. Montgomery thought important to take note of at the time.
Series II: Director's Office. This series contains correspondence, testimony, planning for the 12 GeV upgrade, and other information that pertains to the running of Jefferson Lab during Dr. Montgomery's tenure.
- Subseries A: Emeritus Program
- Subseries B: Lab
- Subseries C: Testimony
- Subseries D: Miscellany
Series III: National Laboratory Directors' Council. "The National Laboratory Director's Council (NLDC) advances the effectiveness of the Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratory Complex in meeting the collective National mission and provides an interface to DOE organization on issues and concerns on common interest, both strategic and operational. The Council also functions as a forum for information exchange, consensus building, and coordination of matters that affect the NLDC members. The primary NLDC relationship with the DOE shall be through the Secretary of Energy."1
Series IV: Science Council. Dr. Montgomery sat on the board of the Jefferson Science Associates Science Council as the director of Jefferson Lab. In this capacity, he worked with the council on "on matters related to JSA's scientific mission, including, but not limited to, long range planning; JSA's performance in accomplishing its scientific mission; commissioning periodic and/or ad hoc independent scientific peer reviews or study panels; and effective relations support and promotion of leadership from the Lab user community in the larger scientific community. The Science Council provides to the Board an annual assessment of fulfillment of governance responsibilities related to the JSA Contractor Assurance System (CAS) program. Further, the Council provides input to the Compensation Committee on the annual performance of the President/Lab Director. In the event that the President/Lab Director position becomes vacant, the Science Council provides input to the Board on the selection of a new President/Lab Director."2
Series V: History. Recent years has seen an interest growing in the foundations of physics research. Dr. Montgomery has supported the efforts to preserve and document Jefferson Lab's history and unique contributions to the science community. This series documents the beginning of that effort.
1 The National Laboratory Directors' Council. "Purpose" http://nldc.nationallabs.org/ (accessed 9 August 2017)
2Jefferson Science Associates, LLC. "Science Council." http://www.jsallc.org/cmts/cmtsci.htm (accessed 9 August 2017)
Restrictions
The Director's Office records are closed for twenty-five years as a default upon accession into the Archives. Permission to access these records sooner may be granted by the Director's Office only. Some records with the Director's Office collections may be permanently closed to researchers; permission to access the collection does not grant permission to access permanently closed records. Please contact history@jlab.org for more information. This collection was accessioned in 2017; non-restricted materials are scheduled to become available for research in the year 2042
Access Restrictions
- Archival collections may only be used solely for noncommercial, educational, and research purposes. Records that are a part of the Director's Office are closed for a minimum of 25 years, unless otherwise noted, and require special permission from the Office of the Director to access. Some records within the Director's Office papers are permanently closed; permission to access the collections does not grant permission to access permanently closed records. Please contact history@jlab.org if you would like to use the collection.
Use Restrictions
- Jefferson Lab is providing access to the materials in the Archive's collections solely for noncommercial educational and research purposes. The unauthorized use, including, but not limited to, publication of the materials without the prior written permission of Jefferson Lab is strictly prohibited. All inquiries regarding permission to publish should be submitted in writing to the Archivist. In addition to permission from Jefferson Lab, permission of the copyright owner (if not Jefferson Lab) and/or any holder of other rights (such as publicity and/or privacy rights) may also be required for reproduction, publication, distribution, and other uses. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of any item and securing any necessary permissions rests with the persons desiring to publish the item. Jefferson Lab makes no warranties as to the accuracy of the materials or their fitness for a particular purpose.
Controlled Access Terms
12 GeV Upgrade
CEBAF History (Collection # JL.004)
Central Helium Liquifier (CHL)
Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF)
Emeritus Program
Gross, Franz (Collection # JLS.001)
JSA Science Council
National Laboratory Directors' Council (NLDC)
Ganni, Rao
Solenoid
Walecka, Dirk (Collection # JLS.015)
Westfall, Catherine (Collection # JLS. 009)
Whitney, R. Roy (Collection # JLS.011)
Administration Information
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of Item], Box [insert number], Folder [insert number and title], Director's Office: The Papers of Hugh Montgomery, Jefferson Lab Archives, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, 12000 Jefferson Ave., Room L203A, Newport News, VA, 23606
Acquisition Information:
This collection was acquired from the Director's Office.
Processing History:
This collection was processed by Melissa Erlandson in October, 2017.
Acknowledgement:
This collection was supported in part by a grant from the History Programs, American Institute of Physics.