Our Sixth Secretary of Energy

   
Four Star Admiral James D. Watkins,­
a protégé of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover. Admiral Rickover is known as the
“Father of the Nuclear Navy”

In the photo above, I am with Admiral Watkins and Dr. Harvey Borovetz in my lab at the DOE Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center. 

Dr. Borovetz is showing Admiral Watkins an artificial heart we were working on.  It was in clinical trials at three major US hospitals.

Admiral Watkins also served as:

Chief of Naval Operations

Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet

Chair of President George H. W. Bush’s Commission on the HIV/AIDS Epidemic.

Click here or on the photos above
for more info on my bioengineering work

Our Twelfth Secretary of Energy

 
Nobel Laureate Dr. Steven Chu

In the photo above, I am seated. 

Secretary of Energy Chu is on the right levitating an atom in his hand. 

We’re discussing our work responding to the Deepwater Horizon oil leak crisis. We’re also discussing our research to prevent another prolonged deep sea oil leak.

Dr. Chu won a Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing a technology to capture and levitate atoms with laser light. 

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for more about my work deep sea oil leaks

Our Sixth Secretary of Energy

John S. Herrington

 Former Assistant Secretary of the Navy

Deputy Assistant for Presidential Personnel, Attorney at Law

Our Seventh Secretary of Energy

Hazel O’Leary.

First woman and the first African American to serve as
Secretary of Energy.

Director of the US Geological Survey,
President of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Marcia McNutt

A letter I received from Marcia

Dr. Everett Ramer, a PhD Nuclear Engineer and Mennonite Elder. Everett convinced me to live a life
of non-violent pacifism.

 
Now retired and teaching English as a second language at the Maison de l'Amitie in Montréal

Dr. Ramer and I used an Atomic Vapor Laser
from Los Alamos for flow visualization

Marcia singing Karaoke at a house party in Seattle.
She’s really good!

Director of the USGS, President of the National
Academy of Sciences

A paper I wrote with Dr. McNutt and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

My father-in-law and mentor for ten years, Vietnam War Hero Navy Chaplain Captain Richard Black.  He was in Chon Thien in 1967 during some of the fiercest combat in Vietnam.  He went in with US Marines on the vanguard armed with an M16.  When a Marine was wounded, he put down his M16, administered first aid, then pulled a 3” bible out of his pocket and told the Marine whatever he needed to hear.  In one year, 1419 US Marines were killed and 9000 wounded in Con Thien.  Marines called Chon Thien “Hell on the Hill of Angels.” Click here to watch his prayer and exhortation to “sacrificial military service” at the dedication of the Joe Kittinger Memorial.  Kittinger was a POW in the cell beside John McCain at the infamous Hanoi Hilton.

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