Paul Kearns

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Paul K. Kearns
Kearns in 2017
14th Director of the Argonne National Laboratory
Incumbent
Assumed office 2017
President	Donald Trump Joe Biden
Preceded by	Peter Littlewood
Alma mater	Purdue University
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Idaho National Laboratory Argonne National Laboratory
Thesis	The quantitative movement of manganese-54 in a model food chain (1980)
Doctoral advisor	Richard J. Vetter

Paul K. Kearns is an American physicist. He received his bachelor’s degree from Purdue University in Natural Resources & Environmental Science in 1976 and a masters and Ph.D. in bionucleonics from Purdue University in 1977 and 1980, respectively.