Ernest Moniz

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Ernest Moniz

Ernest Jeffrey Moniz (born December 22, 1944 in Fall River , Massachusetts ) is an American physicist and politician . From May 21, 2013 to January 2017, he served as the United States Secretary of Energy . Previously, he held the Cecil and Ida Green Chair in Physics and Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and headed the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment there .

Moniz studied physics at Boston College ( Bachelor of Science 1966) and received his doctorate in theoretical physics from Stanford University in 1972 . As a post-doctoral student he was at the CEA in Saclay in 1971/72 and at the University of Pennsylvania in 1972/73 . From 1973 he taught first as an assistant professor and from 1983 as a professor at MIT. From 1991 to 1995 and 1997 to 2001 he headed the physics faculty there and was director of the Bates Linear Accelerator Center from 1983 to 1991 . From 1976 he was also a consultant at Los Alamos National Laboratory , where he was a visiting scientist in 1976. He deals with nuclear physics and questions of energy supply.

From 1995 to 1997 Moniz worked in the Executive Office of the US President as head of science policy ; from 1997 to 2001 he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Energy. On March 4, 2013, he was named United States Secretary of Energy by President Barack Obama to succeed Steven Chu . After confirmation by the US Senate without a dissenting vote, he was able to take office on May 21, 2013.

Moniz has honorary doctorates from the Universities of Athens , Erlangen-Nuremberg and Michigan State University . In 1989 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 2013 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2020 a member of the American Philosophical Society . Moniz is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations .

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  1. ↑ life data according to Pamela Kalte u. a. American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Roberta Rampton: Exclusive: Obama considering MIT physicist Moniz for energy secretary - sources =. In: Chicago Tribune . February 6, 2013, accessed March 31, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Jackie Calmes, John M. Broder: Obama Announces 3 Cabinet Nominations. In: The New York Times . March 5, 2013, accessed March 31, 2013 .
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SURNAME Moniz, Ernest
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moniz, Ernest Jeffrey (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Fall River , Massachusetts