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year the IEEE Board of Directors elects no more than 0.1% of the
full membership to the grade of Fellow. Nominations are made by
Senior Members and must be supported by at least six Fellows. After
being reviewed and ranked by the appropriate IEEE Society, the nominations
are forwarded to the Fellows Committee of the Board who then recommend
a list of candidates for the Board’s consideration. The NPSS
is pleased that the following members were elected by the Board
this year, and extends its congratulations to all of our new Fellows.
Paul A. Bernhardt
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Paul A. Bernhardt
in front of the antenna array used for the High Frequency
Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) in Alaska |
Paul A. Bernhardt received his Bachelor’s degree
(1971) from the University of California at Santa Barbara in the
Electrical Engineering Department. His Master’s (1972) and
Ph.D. (1976) degrees in Electrical Engineering are from Stanford
University. From 1971 to 1973, he was a design engineer at the Naval
Missile Center, Pt. Mugu, California. From 1976 to 1980, Dr. Bernhardt
held the positions, respectively, of Post Doctorate Research Affiliate,
Research Associate, and Senior Research Associate at Stanford University.
Starting in 1981, he was a member of the technical staff of the
Los Alamos National Laboratory. In 1987, Dr. Bernhardt left Los
Alamos for the position of Research Physicist at the Naval Research
Laboratory (NRL). In 1990, he was promoted to his current position,
Senior Research Physicist, in the Plasma Physics Division at NRL.
His research interests have been primarily in the areas of (1) ionospheric
modification with high-power radio waves and chemical releases,
and (2) satellite-based radio-beacon sensing of space plasmas. From
1985 to 1999, Dr. Bernhardt used the high-power High Frequency facility
near Arecibo, Puerto Rico and Nizhny Novgorod, Russia to record
the first CCD images of artificial aurora at mid latitudes. These
images illuminated natural and artificial irregularities in the
ionosphere. From 1992 to 1994, Dr. Bernhardt served on the Arecibo
Users and Science Advisory Council. Dr. Bernhardt is currently sponsored
for ionospheric modification research by the High Frequency Active
Auroral Research Program (HAARP) in Alaska.
Dr. Bernhardt has pioneered the use of chemical releases to modify
the ionosphere. His ionospheric modification experiments have been
monitored with Incoherent Scatter Radar (ISR) systems around the
world and with in situ plasma probes provided to the Plasma Physics
Division at NRL. The 1992 NRL Ionospheric Focused Heating (IFH)
experiment combined chemical release and high-power radio wave technology
to produce the highest level of plasma turbulence ever measured
with the Arecibo ISR. From 1985 to the present, Dr. Bernhardt has
conducted over eight experiments using the Space Shuttle Orbital
Maneuver Subsystem (OMS) engines to modify the ionosphere with high-speed
exhaust injections into the upper atmosphere. The results of these
dedicated engine burns have been recorded using the VHF and UHF
radars at Arecibo, Puerto Rico; Kwajalein, Marshall Islands; Millstone
Hill, Massachusetts; and Jicamarca, Peru. Currently, Dr. Bernhardt
is the Principal Investigator for the Charged Aerosol Release Experiment
(CARE) to study the scattering of radar from electrons in the vicinity
of charged particulates that form artificial “dusty plasmas.”
The Coherent Electromagnetic Radio Tomography (CERTO) and Computerized
Ionospheric Tomography Receiver in Space (CITRIS) programs were
started at NRL by Dr. Bernhardt to provide global, satellite-based
sensors of ionospheric space weather. In the next four years, ten
CERTO beacons and one CITRIS receiver are scheduled to be launched
on low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellites that will monitor both integrated
electron densities and plasma irregularities. The data from these
sensors will provide “now-casting” for navigation and
communications system outages caused by the ionosphere with one-hundred
times better resolution than are provided by GPS radio signals.
The CERTO and CITRIS programs are supported by the Plasma Physics
Division (Code 6700) and Naval Center for Space Technology (Code
8000) at NRL.
Dr. Bernhardt has published over one-hundred papers in ionospheric
and space physics. He holds patents for hyper-spectral imaging and
radio beacon design. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society
(APS) and is a member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). For
AGU, he has been an associate Editor of the Journal of Geophysical
Research (JGR) and the journal Radio Science as well as a member
of the AGU Books Board Editor. He is also a member of the International
Union of Radio Science (URSI) where he was Chairman of the U.S.
Commission on Waves in Plasmas (1994-1997), and is currently Member-at-Large
of the US National Commission of URSI.
Citation: “for contributions to artificial modification of
space plasmas with high power radio waves.”
Paul Bernhardt can be reached at the Plasma Physics Division, Naval
Research Laboratory Code 6750, Washington, DC, USA; Phone: +1 202-767-0196;
Fax: +1 202-767-0631; E-Mail: bern@ppd.nrl.navy.mil.
Christopher Deeney
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Christopher Deeney |
Christopher Deeney was born on October 28th, 1963
in Bellshill, Scotland. In June 1984, he graduated with a First
Class Honours B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Strathclyde,
Glasgow. From October 1984 to October 1987, he completed his Ph.D.
research on the formation of hotspots and electron beams in gas
puff Z pinches and plasma focii at Imperial College in London. Dr.
Deeney was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Stuttgart,
Germany until May 1988 when he joined Physics International Company,
California. At Physics International he became the program manager
for Z-pinch-based plasma radiation source development, for X-ray
laser research and the application of pulsed corona technologies
to pollution control. In 1991, he was promoted to be the Department
Manager of the Plasma Physics Group. In February 1995, Dr Deeney
joined Sandia National Laboratories where he has been one of the
experimenters on the 8-MA Saturn and 20-MA Z pulsed-power generators.
In 2000, he became a department manager at SNL with responsibilities
in areas including Z-pinch development and applications of pulsed
power to material dynamics studies. To date, Dr. Deeney has published
97 journal papers on Z-pinch physics, X-ray lasers, spectroscopy,
plasma focus research, X-ray diagnostics, and dynamic material properties.
He is also an active member of the IEEE, having sat on the PSAC
EXCOM and being the Chairperson for 1999 International Conference
on Plasma Science, and was the co-chair for a Z-pinch Minicourse
at ICOPS 2005 in Monterey. In 1999, he was awarded an APS Fellowship
in the Division of Plasma Physics. In 2005, he became a Group Manager
at Sandia responsible for Pulsed Power Technology development with
five departments covering research in pulsed power, dynamic materials,
and plasma physics plus support of various stockpile stewardship
activities at Sandia and at the Nevada Test site.
Citation: “for contributions to Z-pinch physics.”
Chris Deeney can be reached at Sandia National Laboratories. Org
1640, P.O. Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM 87185 USA; Phone: +1 505 845
3657; Fax: +1 505 865 7685 ; E-mail: cdeene@sandia.gov.
Ronald M. Gilgenbach
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Ronald M. Gilgenbach |
Ronald Gilgenbach is a professor in the Nuclear Engineering
and Radiological Sciences Department and also serves in the Applied
Physics Program at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D.
in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University in 1978. His
B.S. (1972) and M.S. (1973) degrees were earned at the University
of Wisconsin. In the early 1970s he spent several years as a Member
of the Technical Staff at Bell Labs. From 1978 to 1980, he worked
at the Naval Research Lab (NRL) where he played a key role in the
development of the first high-power 35 GHz gyrotron, which was utilized
to perform the first gyrotron plasma- heating experiment on a tokamak
in the USA (at Oak Ridge National Laboratory). Dr. Gilgenbach joined
the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1980 and became Director
of the Plasma, Pulsed Power and Microwave Laboratory. In 2002 he
founded the Bioelectromagnetism Laboratory, which he also directs.
His research at Michigan has concentrated on the generation and
applications of high-power microwave vacuum electron devices, including
gyrotrons and magnetrons. He recently coauthored two U.S. patents
granted on “magnetic priming” of magnetrons for fast
start-up and low noise. His research has recently concerned applications
of microwaves to biological interactions (rf-enhanced chemotherapy)
and plasma propulsion for space. He has had research collaborations
with scientists at the Air Force Research Lab, Sandia National Labs,
NASA Glenn, Northrop-Grumman, L-3 Corp., General Motors Research
Labs, Los Alamos National Lab, Fermilab, and the Naval Research
Lab.
Dr. Gilgenbach received the IEEE Centennial Key Award for Young
Engineers in 1984 and in 1997 he was awarded the IEEE Plasma Sciences
and Applications Committee Award. He was elected Fellow of the American
Physical Society in 1996. Prof. Gilgenbach is an Associate Editor
of the Physics of Plasmas. He has served multiple terms on the ExCom
and is currently Vice Chair of the IEEE Plasma Science and Applications
Technical Committee. He has published some 125 articles in refereed
journals and has supervised 36 graduated Ph.D. students.
Citation: “for contributions to high power microwave vacuum-electron
devices.”
Ronald Gilgenbach can be reached at the University of Michigan,
Department of Nuclear Engineering, Cooley Bldg, North Campus, Ann
Arbor, MI 48109 USA; Phone: +1 734 763 1261; Fax: +1 734 763 4540;
E-mail: rongilg@umich.edu.
Ian R. McNab
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Ian R. McNab |
Ian McNab was born and educated in Britain and moved
to the United States with his family in 1975. He holds a Ph.D. in
Applied Science from the University of Reading (1974), and a B.Sc.
(Honors Physics) from the University of Leeds (1960), both in the
UK. He has been the Director of the Electromagnetic Systems Division
at the Institute for Advanced Technology (IAT) at the University
of Texas in Austin since 1995, where he is responsible for research
programs in EM launchers, pulsed power, code development and analysis,
and materials.
Since moving to the United States, Dr. McNab’s interests have
been focused primarily, but not solely, in the areas of electromagnetic
(EM) launchers and related pulsed-power technology. In 1978, while
at the Westinghouse R&D Center in Pittsburgh, PA, Dr. McNab
led Westinghouse efforts to design and supply the first U.S. EM
launcher system for DARPA and the U.S. Army – a 1.5 million
ampere, 15 to 30 MJ pulsed homopolar-generator-powered system that
operated at ARDEC, Picatinny from 1982 to 1998. At the Westinghouse
Division in Sunnyvale, CA (now Northrop Grumman) from 1984 to 1990
he led programs to design, build and deliver a 1 million ampere,
12 MJ high-speed pulsed homopolar generator and cryogenic inductor
system for electromagnetic launcher R&D to USAF-Eglin and initiated
the fundamental design of a 40-MW long pulse (1.5 MA for 5 seconds)
homopolar generator for the USAF power group at Wright Patterson
AFB. Working with DNA (1986) he initiated the 32 MJ capacitively
powered Thunderbolt EM launcher program for SDIO that was operated
by Westinghouse and which subsequently achieved a muzzle velocity
of 5.4 km/s. While at Maxwell Laboratories (1990-94) he oversaw
operation of DNA’s Maxwell Green Farm 32 MJ EMG/ETC gun facility
as well as programs to develop electrothermal gun technology and
the development of pulsed power equipment for U.S. government and
industrial customers. Since joining the IAT (1995) he has developed
and directed a group of 35 scientists, engineers and technicians
that undertakes leading R&D on EM launch and pulsed power technology
for the U.S. Army, Navy, ONR, DARPA and USMC. The IAT is the Army’s
designated University Research Center for this technology, and operates
the largest U.S. electric gun research facility at present. The
U.S. Navy recently provided a $10M, 5-year contract to the IAT with
Dr. McNab as the Principal Investigator. He is also Chief Scientist
for the U.S. Army's Advanced Development program ($60M) to develop
EM launchers and their associated 20-GW pulsed-power systems and
is also PI on related R&D studies for DOD including for ONR,
AFOSR and USMC.
Dr. McNab has published well over 100 papers (30 in IEEE Transactions;
4 in IEEE Pulsed Power Conferences) on R&D in electric guns,
pulsed power, rotating machines, and related technologies, e.g.,
current collection. He has served on the Steering and Technical
Committees for the International EM Launcher Symposium since 1982,
and was Conference Chairman in 1996. In 1986 he was a founding member
of Electromagnetic Launcher Association which recently had its 20th
meeting. He has provided numerous reports and briefings to the U.S.
Armed Services and has been instrumental in promoting interest for
this technology in DOD. He was awarded the Peter Mark Medal for
Outstanding Contributions to Electromagnetic Launch Technology in
1990 and was awarded the Lavrentyev Medal by the Russian Academy
of Sciences Siberian Branch for Accomplishments in Electromagnetic
Launch Technology in Academiygorodok in 2003. In 1997 he was the
Invited Keynote Speaker at the First South Korean Conference on
Electric Guns and in 2004 he was one of two invited Keynote Speakers
at the 2nd Chinese Electromagnetic Launch Society conference in
Dalian.
In addition to his interests in EM launchers, Dr. McNab has worked
in several other electrotechnology fields. He started his career
in the UK in 1960 by undertaking research on alkali-metal-seeded
noble gas magnetoplasmadynamic generator technology at the International
Research and Development Company (now owned by Rolls Royce) - a
topic on which he was awarded his Ph.D. He was then involved in
the development of advanced metal-plated carbon fiber brush technology
for superconducting generators in the late 1960s and early 1970s
for the British Navy. His interests in this field continued on joining
Westinghouse in 1975 and, as a result of undertaking a current collection
development program in the late 1970s for DARPA and ONR, he organized
an International Conference on Current Collection in 1982 and edited
a book on Electrical Current Collection. He has also contributed
definitive chapters to Handbooks on Wear, and on Space Science and
Technology. In the late 1970s and early 1980s he was involved in
the development of liquid-metal pump technology for the fast breeder
nuclear reactor industry under contracts and awards from EPRI and
NSF.
Since 1960, Dr. McNab has also served as consultant on defense topics
for: the RAND Corporation, MITRE, the JASONs, DOE Argonne National
Laboratory, U.S. Army, ARES Inc. (for SDIO), the Institute for Defense
Analysis (MCTL), Physics International, JDI, Triton, Royal Ordnance
(UK), FOA (Sweden), and FASAC. He has been scientific referee for
NSF; U.S.-Israeli Bi-National NSF; the Holm Conference; DOE SBIR
Office; IEEE pulsed power conferences; the International EML Symposia;
as well as scientific journals such as the Journal of Applied Physics
(U.S. and UK). He currently reviews proposals from Industry and
Academia for the Army and Navy. Dr. McNab has 15 patents in the
U.S. and UK on EM launchers and advanced brushes for electrical
machines. He has served on the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences
Pulsed Power Committee since 1998 and frequently provides briefings
to Senior DOD management that have helped to obtain enhanced commitment
to EML research.
Citation: “for contributions to the development of electromagnetic
launchers.”
Ian McNab can be reached at 3925 W. Braker Lane #400, Austin, TX
78759-5316; Phone: +1 512 232 4428; Fax: +1 512 471 9096; E-mail:
mcnab@iat.utexas.edu
William W. Moses
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William W. Moses |
Bill Moses has been an active researcher in instrumentation
for nuclear medical imaging for many years. In 1978 he received
a B.A. from Dartmouth College, majoring in Physics, and entered
graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley the following
fall. His thesis work was in subatomic particle physics as a member
of the PEP-4 TPC collaboration. He worked on the electromagnetic
barrel calorimeter for the project, which is where he first became
interested in radiation detection. He received a Ph.D. in Physics
from UCB in 1986, at which point he decided to do research in nuclear
medical imaging. He was hired as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center
for Functional Imaging at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
where he worked for Dr. Stephen E. Derenzo. He has worked in the
same group ever since, and is presently a Senior Staff Scientist
at LBNL.
Bill’s research has centered on development of instrumentation
for nuclear medical imaging, primarily for positron emission tomography
(PET). He has been very involved in developing new dense inorganic
scintillators for gamma ray detection. He has worked on novel pixellated
photodiode arrays for measuring scintillation light, and developed
electronics and custom integrated circuits tailored to reading out
these photodiode arrays. He has designed new nuclear medical imaging
detector modules that incorporate these new components, and created
medical imaging devices optimized for imaging specific diseases
(notably breast cancer and prostate cancer). These novel detector
modules and imaging geometries require modification to the algorithms
used to process the data, so he has also contributed to creating
suitable tomographic reconstruction algorithms. Most recently he
has been pursuing both hardware and software improvements necessary
to realize time-of-flight PET, which has the potential to substantially
reduce the statistical noise in the reconstructed images. He has
over 175 publications and three patents, been principal investigator
on 20 research grants, supervised 14 graduate students, given over
35 invited presentations, and served on numerous grant review committees.
Bill has also been extremely active in the IEEE for a number of
years, and is currently President of the NPSS. He began his “IEEE
career” as the Assistant Guest Editor for papers submitted
to the IEEE 1989 Nuclear Science Symposium. He has served in many
roles for subsequent Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS) and Medical
Imaging Conference (MIC) meetings, including Assistant Program Chairperson
for the MIC in 1991, Program Chairperson for the NSS in 1993, organizing
or teaching a Short Course (Fundamentals of Medical Imaging) six
times, and serving as Chair of the Site Selection Committee several
times. He served as Chairperson of the Radiation Instrumentation
Steering Committee (RISC, whose major responsibility is the long-term
organization of the NSS/MIC) for the first four years of its existence,
and was an elected member of the NPSS AdCom representing the Nuclear
Medical and Imaging Sciences Technical Committee from 1995–1999
and Radiation Instrumentation Technical Committee from 2001–2005.
As President of NPSS he is also a member of the IEEE Technical Activities
Board (TAB), where he also serves on a number of committees.
Citation: “For the development and application of efficient,
high resolution position tomography.”
Bill Moses can be reached at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
One Cyclotron Road, MS55-121, Berkeley, CA 94720-8099; Tel: +1 510
486 4432; Fax: +1 510 486 4768; E-mail: wwmoses@lbl.gov.
Marek Moszynski
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Marek Moszynski |
Marek Moszynski received his M.S. degree from Warsaw
Technical University, Poland in nuclear electronics in 1962. He
began working at the Institute for Nuclear Research in Swierk (Poland).
In 1969 he received his Ph.D. and in 1971 his D.Sc. (habilitation).
In 1972 he became an Associate Professor and in 1981 a Full Professor
at the Institute of Nuclear Research in Swierk. After reorganization
of the Institute in 1983, he became the Head of the Nuclear Electronics
Department at the Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies at Swierk
until 1990 and then again in 1997. Since 1998 he has been Deputy
Director of the Institute.
In 1969 he spent a year at the Institute of Physics, University
of Aarhus, Denmark; in 1975 he participated for one year in LETI
CENG, Grenoble, France. In 1981-82 he returned to LETI CENG, Grenoble
and in 1990-92 he was at Centre de Researche Nucleaires in Strasbourg,
France. He has been involved in a number of European collaborations
in nuclear structure physics, including NORDBALL, DEMON, EUROGRAM,
and EUROBALL. At present, he is involved in a realization of two
European projects, supported by the Framework 6 of the European
Community, and in another supported by the International Atomic
Energy Agency in Vienna. Moreover, he provides scientific expertise
to the nuclear industry in Europe (France, Germany, and Scotland).
His scientific activity is mainly devoted to nuclear radiation detection
techniques and methods. He is an expert in fast timing and fast
neutron detection, particularly with scintillation detectors. He
was a member of the group that first developed time-of-flight PET
at LETI Grenoble, France and discovered the fast component of the
BaF2 scintillator. At Brookhaven National Lab he has developed,
with a group of physicists, a method for picosecond lifetime measurements
of nuclear states. At present, he is involved in the study of new
inorganic scintillators, avalanche photodiodes, and different aspects
of scintillation detectors with application to nuclear medicine
and homeland security. He is the author of about 160 papers in refereed
journals, mainly in Nuclear Instruments and Methods and the IEEE
Transactions on Nuclear Science.
For many years he has been a referee of papers for Nuclear Instruments
and Methods and IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. He is a member
of the Advisory Editorial Board of Nuclear Instrument and Methods
A, a member of the NPSS TransNational Committee and in 2002-2004
he was an elected member of the Radiation Instrumentation Steering
Committee of IEEE/NPSS. He received the Von Hevesy Prize at the
3rd World Congress of Nuclear Medicine and Biology in Paris in 1982.
In 2000, he received the IEEE/NPSS Merit Award with the citation
“For outstanding contributions to the modern scintillation
detector and its application in physics experiments, nuclear medicine
and other field of use.”
Citation: “For contributions to scintillation detectors in
nuclear physics and nuclear medicine.”
Marek Moszynski can be reached at the Soltan Institute for Nuclear
Studies, PL05-400 Otwock-Swierk, Poland; Phone: +48-22 718 0586;
Fax: +48-22 779 3481; E-mail: marek@ipj.gov.pl
David W. Townsend
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David Townsend |
David W. Townsend joined the University of Tennessee
in Knoxville in February 2003 as Professor of Medicine and Radiology,
and Director of the Cancer Imaging and Tracer Development Program.
He obtained his Ph.D. in Particle Physics from the University of
London and worked for eight years at the European Centre for Nuclear
Research in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1980, Dr. Townsend held a position
at Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland as a physicist
in the Department of Nuclear Medicine. He has worked on PET instrumentation
development since the early 1980s, and has been a senior consultant
for CPS Innovations, Knoxville, Tennessee (now Siemens Molecular
Imaging) since 1992. He initially participated in the development
of 3D reconstruction and methodology for PET in collaboration with
Hammersmith Hospital, London, and later designed and built the first
rotating partial ring PET scanner using BGO block detectors. The
design was commercialized as the ECAT ART scanner by CPS Innovations
in 1994.
In 1993, Dr. Townsend moved from Geneva to the University of Pittsburgh
as an Associate Professor of Radiology and Senior PET Physicist.
He was Co-Director of the Pittsburgh PET Facility from 1996-2002,
and became Professor of Radiology in 2000. In 1995, Dr. Townsend
was Principal Investigator on the first proposal to design and build
a combined PET/CT scanner, and subsequently on the competing continuation
grant that was active until 2003 to further develop PET/CT methodology.
The PET/CT scanner, attributed to Dr. Townsend and Dr. Nutt, then
President of CTI Molecular Imaging, Inc., was named by TIME Magazine
as the medical invention of the year in 2000. From 1999-2001, Dr.
Townsend collaborated with CPS Innovations on the development of
the commercial PET/CT scanner, following the successful clinical
evaluation of the first prototype at the University of Pittsburgh
PET Facility. Dr. Townsend and Dr. Nutt also hold a patent on certain
aspects of the PET/CT design.
Since 2002, Dr. Townsend has been funded by the National Cancer
Institute to collaborate with Siemens Molecular Imaging to design
and build the next generation of high-performance, combined PET/CT
scanners using LSO detectors. The $3 million, NCI grant covers the
period 2002-2006, representing a decade of NCI funding for the PET/CT
program.
Citation: “For contributions to positron emission tomography
(PET).”
David Townsend can be reached at the University of Tennessee Medical
Center, 1924 Alcoa Highway, Knoxville, TN 37920; Tel: +1865-544-6181;
Fax: +1 865-544-8694;
E-mail: Dtownsend@mc.utmck.edu.
Ed. note: An additional new Fellow nominated through NPSS, Edward
Peterson, “for contributions to upset rate calculations for
microelectronics in space environments,” has not replied to
requests for a biography. We have also not included three new Fellows,
Douglass Post, Harrison Barrett and Jeffrey Fessler, who are NPSS
members but who were nominated through other societies. We hope
to include their biographies in the June Newsletter.
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