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“DR. ALAN SCHRIESHEIM RETIRES FROM ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Energy was published in the Extensions of Remarks section on pages E1176 on June 26, 1996.
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DR. ALAN SCHRIESHEIM RETIRES FROM ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY
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HON. HARRIS W. FAWELL
of illinois
in the house of representatives
Wednesday, June 26, 1996
Mr. FAWELL. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to commend Dr. Alan Schriescheim, director and chief executive officer of Argonne National Laboratory. Our Nation's first national laboratory, Argonne was founded in 1946, and celebrates its 50th anniversary of service to our Nation this year.
Under Dr. Schriesheim's leadership, Argonne has grown to become a world-renowned research center with more than 200 major projects in progress. Argonne today employs more than 4,000 people on its main 1,700-acre site about 25 miles southwest of Chicago, and at Argonne-
West in Idaho. Managed by the University of Chicago for the U.S. Department of Energy, Argonne is one of the nine multi-program national laboratories, the only one in the Midwest. This national asset is a focus of collaborative research, teaming the best and brightest from America's universities, corporations, and Federal laboratories in both short-term and long-term programs designed to ensure a better life for our children and their children into the 21st century.
Alan began his career with Argonne in 1983 after long and distinguished service at Exxon Research, thus becoming the first director of a nonweapons national laboratory to be recruited from industry. As a result of his management talent and strong commitment to develop and initiate strategic programs, the laboratory expanded rapidly, becoming the home of the Advanced Photon Source, a $1 billion research facility formally dedicated last month that will probe the biological and material properties of matter with far greater precision than ever before.
Other Argonne programs initiated during Alan's tenure span the full range of science--from developing biological microchips and sequencing the human genome in a cooperative program with the Englehardt Institute of Molecular Biology in Moscow, to establishing a virtual-reality advanced parallel-processing computer center. He also led Argonne in building the largest superconductivity program in America's national laboratory system, forming working relationships with more than 50 corporations and universities. The project led to the creation of an independent corporation, Illinois Superconductor Corp., which raised
$14 million in its initial stock offering.
While developing new programs, Alan ensured Argonne remained a world-
class center of nuclear engineering, including its design and development of the Integral Fast Reactor, an inherently safe power station that emits no air pollution, produces little waste, consumes waste from other nuclear plants, and shuts itself down if anything goes wrong.
Alan's deep dedication to motivating young Americans to consider careers in science is nowhere better evidenced than by his collaboration with television science journalist Bill Kurtis in initiating the Science Explorers Program, which exposes thousands of teachers and students to science and math through study guides for Kurtis' PBS science program, ``The New Explorers.''
Alan holds a bachelor's degree from Brooklyn Polytechnic University in New York, a Ph.D. in chemistry from Pennsylvania State University, and several honorary degrees. He is the author or coauthor of numerous scientific articles, holds 22 U.S. patents, and is a member of the board and fellow of the American Association for the advancement of Science and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He chaired the National Academy of Engineering Study of Foreign participation in U.S. Research and Development, and is a member of the National Research Council's panel on dual-use technologies in the former Soviet Union and other academic and Government panels.
In his capacity as chief executive of one of America's preeminent research centers, Alan has appeared many times before committees of the House to offer us his guidance and counsel on important national issues bearing on science and technology. As such, he has helped shape the scientific foundation on which this Nation will enter the 21st century.
Mr. Speaker, Alan's management style, philosophy, intelligence, and leadership are paying huge dividends today and will continue to do so for years to come. After many years of distinguished and superior service to the Argonne National Laboratory and the Nation, I wish Alan all the accolades he so rightfully deserves. May his years of retirement bring all the best to Alan, his wife Beatrice, their two children, and their five grandchildren.
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