Thomas Mason | |
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&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Mason_LANL.jpg) Mason in 2018 | |
| 12th Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory | |
| Assumed office 2018 | |
| President | Donald Trump Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | Terry Wallace |
| Personal details | |
| Born | August 9, 1964 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Citizenship | Canadian, American |
| Alma mater | Dalhousie University McMaster University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Condensed-matter physics |
| Institutions | AT&T Bell Laboratories Risø National Laboratory University of Toronto Oak Ridge National Laboratory Battelle Memorial Institute Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Thesis | Critical Behavior of CsMnBr3 (1990) |
| Doctoral advisor | M.F. Collins |
| Website | Los Alamos National Laboratory website |
Thomas Mason is a Canadian-American[1] condensed-matter physicist who serves as the director of Los Alamos National Laboratory. Prior to this appointment, he had been an executive at Battelle Memorial Institute from 2017 to 2018, and the director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 2007 to 2017.[2] Mason moved to Oak Ridge in 1998 at the start of construction of the Spallation Neutron Source[3] which he led from 2001 until project completion in 2006.
- ^ "Thom Mason Named Director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory". www.ornl.gov.
- ^ Cho, Adrian (27 February 2017). "Thom Mason, director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, to step down". Science. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
- ^ "Spallation Neutron Source | Neutron Science at ORNL".