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Ed was born in New York City January 19, 1926 and received a B.S. in electronics from Columbia University in 1946 under a US navy program. As a navy ensign, he witnessed atomic bomb tests in the Pacific in 1946. He later commented that observing these tests made a deep impression on him. After the war, he returned to his studies, earning M.S. (1948) and Ph.D. (1951) degrees in physics from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. He married Ruth Rodman in 1949 and, after her death, married, in 1967, Joy Fields, who survives him. He had four children by his first wife.

As associate director at PPPL, Ed had a profound influence on fusion policy during the 1970s as the fusion effort at PPPL successfully operated a series of tokamak experiments and began construction of the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR). In 1979 he joined the US Department of Energy (which had succeeded the US Energy Research and Development Agency, which had succeeded the US Atomic Energy Commission) as Director of the Office of Energy Research (now called Office of Science), a position he held until June 30,1981. He then joined Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) in La Jolla, CA, as Executive Vice President. SAIC had assisted in the formation of Fusion Power Associates (FPA) in 1979 and Ed assisted FPA in many ways during the early 1980s.

Ed had many and broad interests beyond fusion. For example, he was a charter member of the prestigious scientific group called JASONS, established in 1960 to provide in-depth scientific study and advice on issues of national importance. He also served as a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and on the Defense Science Board, for example. A more complete summary of Ed’s many diverse activities is posted at http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/biogr/Frieman_Biogr.pdf

Fusion Power Associates Board of Directors presented Ed its Distinguished Career Award in 2001, citing "his many scientific contributions to the early development of fusion and his later contributions as an advisor on national fusion policy."