FPN05-47

Meade, Schmidt to Retire from PPPL

May 30, 2005

Veteran fusion researchers Dale Meade and John Schmidt will retire from the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) July 31. They are among 29 persons taking advantage of a special Voluntary Separation Program announced recently by the laboratory. The program was open to persons 55 and older with 10 or more years of service at the laboratory. Several other DOE Office of Science laboratories, including the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, are engaged in offering similar incentive programs, stimulated by potential funding cuts in DOE Office of Science programs, as proposed in the President's FY 2006 budget request to Congress.

Three other PPPL physicists, Chio-Zong Cheng, Martha Redi and Gerd Schlling, will also take advantage of the program. They can be reached at:

fcheng@pppl.gov
dmeade@pppl.gov
mredi@pppl.gov
jschmidt@pppl.gov
gschilling@pppl.gov