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Spotlight: Argonne director to lead with vision, plan.(Argonne National Laboratory)(Brief Article)
Crain's Chicago Business, April, 2005 by Merrion, Paul
Byline: Paul Merrion Job: Director of Argonne National Laboratory, effective April 18. Vitals: 57 years old; bachelor's degree in physics, Brandeis University, 1969; Ph.D. in physics, Harvard University, 1976; professor of astronomy and astrophysics, University of Chicago, 1987 to present; chief scientist and associate lab director for physical, biological and computational sciences at Argonne since 2002.
Strong suit: "They tapped a distinguished scientist as opposed to a more bureaucratic choice,'' says fellow astrophysicist Larry Smarr, former director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Downstate Urbana. "In the end, there's no substitute for vision.'' Resume gap: Has not worked in applied sciences, a huge part of Argonne's...
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