An emerging role for the national laboratories in materials research
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An Emerging Role for the National Laboratories in Materials Research
J.S. KANE
The mission of the Department of Energy National Laboratories should be expanded to include as an item of high priority collaborative research in support of high technology industry, including the materials industry. There are numerous reasons for doing this. The original missions of the laboratories, other than those of the weapons.laboratories, have been deemphasized or disappeared. The laboratories have superior facilities, often unique, and high quality staffs experienced in the interdisciplinary approach to problem solving. Perhaps most important, domestic industry, especially high technology industry, should have this resource available if it is to meet the challenge of remaining competitive.
that I had been selected to give the 1987 Distinguished Lecture in Materials and Society subsided, I was faced with the problem that confronts all authors when they place a blank sheet of paper in the typewriter. What can I say? What could I talk about that would keep a reasonable fraction of a wellfed audience awake for a half-hour or so? Speakers must draw on either their experience or their expertise. In my
case, I was unwilling to risk exposing my expertise in front of a distinguished and knowledgeable audience such as the one that would be heating my lecture, so I chose experience, and mailed off an abstract that I thought neatly included materials, society, and the Department of Energy National Laboratories. It is a topic that I feel qualified to address. I worked in applied materials R & D at a National Laboratory for twenty years. After that, I was a scientific administrator in Washington for eleven years during which time most of my duties related in one way or another to the National Labo-
J. S. KANE is currently the Special Assistant for Laboratory Affairs at the University of California. In this position he has responsibility for liaison to the three Department of Energy Laboratories managed by the University: the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He assumed this position in February, 1985. Dr. Kane received the B.S. degree in 1950 from Montana State University and the Ph.D. degree in 1955 from the University of California in Berkeley. Both degrees were in chemistry. He was at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1955 to 1974; at the time he left the Laboratory he was the Head of the Department of Chemistry and Materials Science. Frora 1974 until 1985 Dr. Kane worked in Washington,
DC as a scientific administrator. His initial position was with the Atomic Energy Commission, where he was the Technical Assistant to the General Manager. When the Energy Research and Development Administration was formed in 1975, Dr. Kane became the first Deputy Administrator for Energy Conservation. He then became the Director of the Physical Research Division. Upon the formation of the Department of Energy, he became Associate Director for Basic Energy Sci
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