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Dr. Bill Appleton
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
"The National Spalation Neutron Source, and Neutron Science in Oak Ridge"
Bill R. Appleton is Vice President of Lockheed Martin Energy Research and Associate Laboratory Director at Oak Ridge National Laboratory whose regularly assigned responsibility is for Advanced Materials, Physical, and Neutron Sciences where he manages the Chemical and Analytical Sciences, Metals and Ceramics, Physics, Research Reactors, and Solid State divisions, and the Neutron Sciences Program. However, he is currently on special assignment as Director of the National Spallation Neutron Source (NSNS) project which is a collaborative project among five Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratories to design and construct a next-generation spallation neutron source.
He received his B.S. degree from the University of Missouri, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Solid State Physics from Rutgers University. He worked at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, in the areas of ion implantation and ion-solid interactions before joining Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1968. His research interests at ORNL have concentrated on the use of accelerators and lasers for fundamental research in ion beam and laser processing for surface modification of materials, and on fundamental studies of ion-solid interactions. He has received several awards for his research, including the 1980 DOE Award for Outstanding Sustained Research, R&D-100 Awards, the 1985 DOE Award for Significant New Technologies, and the Martin Marietta Energy Systems Award as 1987 Scientist of the Year. He has edited three books and published over 170 refereed journal articles, reviews, and book chapters. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the Bomische Physikalische Gesellschaft and the Materials Research Society.
Some of Dr. Appleton's professional activities include serving as past chairman of the Solid State Sciences Committee (SSSC) and member of the National Materials Advisory Board of the National Research Council (NRC); as a Councilor and member of the Executive Board of the American Physical Society, and as past-president of the Division of Materials Physics of APS, and a member of numerous APS committees including POPA and PPC. He is a councilor, past vice president, and organizer of several symposia and forums of the Materials Research Society. He has served on numerous panels and study groups for the National Academy of Sciences and the Department of Energy. He has been particularly actively involved in promoting materials science and engineering (MS&E). He served as chairman-elect and chairman of SSSC, which coordinated the NRC study Materials Science and Engineering for the 1990s, and as co-chairman of the Southeast Regional Meeting on MS&E, and as co-author of the report from the regional meetings A National Agenda in MS&E.
