FPN01-83

President Names Ray Orbach as DOE Science Chief

December 12, 2001

President George W. Bush announced his intention to nominate Raymond L. Orbach to be Director of the Office of Science at the Department of Energy (DOE). Orbach is currently the Chancellor of the University of California at Riverside and a Professor of Physics. He served as Provost of the College of Letters and Science at the University from 1982 to 1992.

Orbach has held numerous visiting professorships at universities around the world, including the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, the Ecole Superieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielle de la Ville de Paris, France and Tel Aviv University. He received an undergraduate degree from California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.

He is a member of the Division of Condensed Matter Physics of the American Physical Society.

A plasma physics and fusion scientist at the University of California at Los Angeles told Fusion Power Associates that Orbach's appointment could be "a terrific boon to us." "We know him well," he said and "I think he will listen to us." The DOE's Office of Fusion Energy Science is a part of the DOE Office of Science.

The White House press release can be view at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/12/20011211-8.html