William Frank Brinkman is an American physicist who served as president of theAmerican Physical Society (2002)[1] and was the head of theOffice of Science at theUnited States Department of Energy (2009–2013). He was elected to theNational Academy of Sciences in 1984, and won theGeorge E. Pake Prize in 1994.[2] He was elected as a member of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992,[3] and became a member of theAmerican Philosophical Society in 2002.[4]
Brinkman was born on July 20, 1938, inWashington, Missouri. He received his bachelor's degree (1960) and PhD (1965) in physics from theUniversity of Missouri.[5][6]
Brinkman joinedBell Labs in 1966, working in the physics research laboratory. From 1984 to 1987, he served as vice president of research atSandia National Laboratories. In 1987 he became executive director of the physics research division at Bell Labs.[5]
Brinkman joinedPrinceton University in 2001, where he continued hiscondensed matter physics research. In 2009, he was appointed as director of the Office of Science in the U.S. Department of Energy, where he served until 2013. During his tenure at the USDOE, Brinkman infamously tried unsuccessfully to retire MIT's fusion energy research program, which would have been disastrous for modern fusion energy research.[7][8][9]
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