John F. Holzrichter is an American physicist, formerly the President of the Hertz Foundation, and currently a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[1][2][3][4]
John F. Holzrichter | |
|---|---|
| Education | PhD |
| Alma mater | University of Wisconsin Stanford University University of Heidelberg |
| Occupation | Physicist |
Education edit
Holzrichter received a BS with honors in applied mathematics and engineering physics from the University of Wisconsin in 1964. He then received an MS in applied mathematics as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Heidelberg in 1965 and PhD in physics from Stanford University in 1971. Between 1969 and 1971, he held a Hertz Foundation Fellowship.[2] During his career he constructed the first dye laser at Stanford to photo-induce magnetic signals in the anti-ferromagnetic MnFe.[5]
Career edit
Holzrichter began his career at the Naval Research Laboratory in 1971, and moved to LLNL in 1972.[5] Holzrichter served as the deputy director[6] of ICF and fusion lasers, and then director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's institutional research and development program,[7] He remains at LLNL as senior scientist.[2] His work has included research into lasers for inertial confinement ICF fusion.[8] He played a major role in the design and construction of the Shiva, Novette, Nova, and NIF Laser systems.[5] His research has also included speech recognition and research management. He developed a new program for the Directors of LLNL to use for investing in new technologies (known as LDRD).[2] He is the co-inventor of radar-acoustic speech recognition.[9]
As an educator, Holzrichter has been a research professor at the University of California at Davis. He also holds ten patents. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Between 1999 and 2009, he served as the president of the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation,[2] when he retired as emeritus president.[10] Holzrichter has authored book chapters[11] and papers in journals including Physical Review Letters, Nature[12] and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[13]
References edit
- ^ "John Holzrichter". aaas.org. Retrieved May 14, 2017.
- ^ a b c d e "John Holzrichter". hertzfoundation.org. Retrieved May 14, 2017.
- ^ "Lasers for Fusion Energy" (PDF). iaea.org. Retrieved May 14, 2017.
- ^ "Lectures". stanford.edu. Retrieved May 14, 2017.
- ^ a b c Yen, William M.; Levenson, Marc D. (1987). "The Authors". Lasers, Spectroscopy and New Ideas. Springer Series in Optical Sciences. Vol. 54. pp. 330–335. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-47872-0_23. ISBN 978-3-662-13608-9.
- ^ Shouyun, Tan (2014). History Of Modern Optics And Optoelectronics Development In China. World Scientific. p. 120. ISBN 978-981-4518-77-2.
- ^ Elmer-Dewitt, Philip (15 October 1992). "Dream Machines". Time.
- ^ Istvan, Hargittai; Balazs, Hargittai (2005). Candid Science V: Conversations With Famous Scientists. World Scientific. p. 159. ISBN 978-1-78326-046-1.
- ^ Holzrichter, John F.; Ng, Lawrence C.; Burke, Gerry J.; Champagne, Nathan J.; Kallman, Jeffrey S.; Sharpe, Robert M.; Kobler, James B.; Hillman, Robert E.; Rosowski, John J. (March 2005). "Measurements of glottal structure dynamics". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 117 (3): 1373–1385. Bibcode:2005ASAJ..117.1373H. doi:10.1121/1.1842775. PMID 15807025.
- ^ "Associations". Chemical & Engineering News.
- ^ Nuckolls, J. H. (15 February 2006). "Contributions to the Genesis and Progress of ICF".
- ^ Holzrichter, J. F. (July 1985). "High-power solid-state lasers". Nature. 316 (6026): 309–314. Bibcode:1985Natur.316..309H. doi:10.1038/316309a0. S2CID 4244262.
- ^ Omair, Zunaid; Scranton, Gregg; Pazos-Outón, Luis M.; Xiao, T. Patrick; Steiner, Myles A.; Ganapati, Vidya; Peterson, Per F.; Holzrichter, John; Atwater, Harry; Yablonovitch, Eli (30 July 2019). "Ultraefficient thermophotovoltaic power conversion by band-edge spectral filtering". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116 (31): 15356–15361. Bibcode:2019PNAS..11615356O. doi:10.1073/pnas.1903001116. PMC 6681750. PMID 31311864.