William Madia | |
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Born | 1947 (age 76–77) |
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Spouse | Audrey DeLaquil |
Awards | Secretary of Energy's Gold Award, Laboratory Director of the Year |
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Fields | Chemistry, nuclear physics |
Institutions | Battelle, Stanford |
William (Bill) J. Madia (born 1947) is an American scientist and laboratory director. Madia holds a Ph.D. in nuclear chemistry, a field in which most of his career was focused at Battelle. In his early twenties, Madia was drafted into the US Army where he trained nuclear reactor operators. He later worked for Battelle, a non-profit research company where he began as a researcher before being promoted to direct various laboratories across the United States and Western Europe. Madia retired in 2007 and joined Stanford University in early 2008. He retired from Stanford in 2019 and is now President of Madia & Associates, Inc. a management consulting firm.