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5. William E. and Peter E. Gifford (Cryomech, Syracuse) ~ Bill Gifford invented both the GM cycle and the Pulse Tube cycle more than 50 years ago. These inventions led to the development of cryogenic refrigeration systems with cooling capacities from 4K to 100K, ideal for use with the broad range of superconducting applications. In 1963, Bill founded Cryomech Inc. in Syracuse, NY, while a professor at Syracuse University. In its early days, Cryomech consisted of Bill and a handful of part time employees, mainly graduate students. Under Bill’s tutelage, a number of these students went on to distinguished careers in the cryogenic field. Peter joined his father in 1973 and has led the company since Bill’s death in 1980. Over the past 30 plus years Cryomech has continued to be a leading innovator in the field of cryogenics. Under Peter’s leadership, Cryomech, still based in Syracuse, is a thriving, rapidly growing company with close to 100 employees. A number of Cryomech’s cryorefrigerators were specifically developed to meet the demands of the LTC and HTC superconductivity community. 6. Ramesh Gupta (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton) ~ BNL has always been a leader in the world of superconducting magnets, which are essential to great modern accelerators such as the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at BNL, and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Switzerland. For the past decade, Lab researchers have been exploring the use of new materials that become superconducting at higher temperatures. Ramesh Gupta, head of the High Temperature Superconductor (HTS) Research and Development Group in the Superconducting Magnet Division, is among those exploring avenues for HTS magnets that are energy efficient and have magnetic fields that are a million times stronger than the Earth’s. These new magnets could revolutionize use in future accelerators, play a key role in energy efficiency and storage, and make possible new applications such as muon colliders and MRI screening in remote areas. To date, Gupta and his group have built more than 100 HTS coils and 10 HTS magnets using tens of kilometers of such conductors. Gupta is part of a team from the Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department that recently received a grant from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to fund superconducting magnet energy storage research. The project, a collaboration with SuperPower, ABB Inc. of Cary, NC, and the University of Houston, could have a significant impact on how electricity is stored and delivered in the future. 7. Drew Hazelton (Intermagnetics, Latham and SuperPower, Schenectady) ~ Mr. Hazelton joined Intermagnetics in 1980 and has more than 30 years of experience in applied superconductivity. He has been with SuperPower, now a subsidiary of Philips, since its formation in 2000. His activities have included composite superconductor materials processing, mechanical properties and low temperature effects with emphasis on the development of processing for and application of superconducting materials. Mr. Hazelton has led development and demonstration programs in HTS cables, superconducting fault current limiters, HTS transformers, HTS generators, HTS magnets of all types and the superconducting magnetic energy storage system (SMES). Mr. Hazelton was named “Co-Inventor of the Year” in 2005 by the Eastern New York Intellectual Property Law Association for the US patent, 6,664,875 relating to the Matrix-type superconducting fault current limiter. Mr. Hazelton has a B.S. in Materials Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Union College. 8. Richard Hitt (Hypres, Elmsford) ~ Mr. Hitt drove the development and demonstration of superconducting electronics prototypes which established the benefit and credibility of the technology with the DOD and triggered a press release from the US Army touting one of the demonstrations as “the most significant advance in Satellite Communications in thirty years.” He established the Hypres foundry as the premier and the only worldwide COMMERCIAL foundry for superconducting electronics, serving researchers in universities and corporate R&D centers worldwide. Hitt grew the small business through increased revenues leading to job creation of high skilled positions that grew the company by over 20% and added or saved more than 8 jobs in a 40-employee company in Westchester County, NY. He drove the collaborative activities with NY universities, research centers and private companies, leading to the creation of the new Centers for research and new joint research programs, with partners including Stony Brook University, The College for Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) at the University at Albany, and many of the companies represented at the current Summit. 9. Peter Johnson (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton) ~ Dr. Johnson is a physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Group Leader for Electron Spectroscopy, and Chair of the Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department. He was recently a co-recipient of the American Physical Society’s prestigious 2011 Oliver E. Buckley Prize in Condensed Matter Physics for “innovation in angle-resolving photoemission spectroscopy, which advanced the understanding of the cuprate superconductors, and transformed the study of strongly correlated electronic systems.” Johnson has worked with various forms of photoemission spectroscopy, including inverse (time-reversed), spin-polarized, and high-resolution photoemission spectroscopy. It is this last variant for which he was honored. The techniques that Johnson helped develop have provided more insight than any other into one of the major challenges of modern physics, namely strongly correlated electronic materials, of which cuprate superconductors are one example. Johnson is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, and the Institute of Physics in the United Kingdom. 10. A. Kamal Kalafala (Intermagnetics and Philips, Latham) ~ Dr. Kalafala has worked in superconductivity for more than 30 years and is one of the world leaders in large scale applications of superconductivity. First at General Electric in Schenectady and then with Intermagnetics (acquired by Philips in 2006), he successfully managed and made multiple technical contributions to such applications as MRI, SMES, crystal growth, Maglev and others. Among his most successful projects are the world first compact 3 Tesla magnet and 1.0 Tesla High-field open magnet for use in Magnetic Resonance Imaging. ~ 32 ~
11. Mark Ketchen (IBM, Poughkeepsie) ~ Dr. Ketchen has been a pioneer in superconducting electronics from the early years of IBM’s involvement in the 1970s and 1980s. He has invented and implemented a number of innovative SQUID circuits and designs, many of which formed the basis of all SQUID applications today. Dr. Ketchen led many of the IBM efforts in advanced microcircuit design and fabrication and is a tireless advocate of superconductivity at IBM, in the state of NY, in the US and worldwide. He has won numerous awards and is recognized by his peers as one of the statesmen in the field. Dr. Ketchen is poised to play a leading role in any expected revival of superconducting electronics for high performance and high efficiency computing. 12. Evangelos Trifon Laskaris (GE Global Research, Niskayuna) ~ Dr. Laskaris has had a long and impactful career in superconductivity. He has been a key inventor in almost every MRI magnet that GE has developed. He holds the largest number of patents of any researcher at GE Global Research and was named a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 for his pioneering contributions to the design and construction of superconducting magnets for MRI systems. He has taught and mentored many people in superconductivity over his long and continuing career at GE. 13. Qiang Li (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton) ~ For a superconductor, charges need to be paired and moving coherently to carry a current with no resistance. The ‘stripe’ order suggests the charges are localized in relatively fixed positions. Brookhaven studies suggest that the presence of alternating stripes of magnetism and charge exist in other superconducting materials, in a way that is more fluid and therefore harder to detect. One of the key measurements, made by Brookhaven physicist Dr. Qiang Li, was of electrical resistance parallel to the planes of the layered material and also perpendicular to them. At a particular temperature, Li detected a big drop in resistance when the current was flowing parallel to the layers, but not when it was flowing perpendicular to them. More broadly, Li currently leads the Advanced Energy Materials Group in the Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department that studies the microscopic and macroscopic properties of complex and nano-structured materials, including new superconductors, with a view to understanding and developing their application in different and real-world energy related technologies. Dr. Li is part of the BNL team that recently received a grant from the U.S. DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to fund superconducting magnet energy storage research. 14. Garry Morrow (Intermagnetics General Corporation, Latham) ~ During his nearly 30-year tenure with Intermagnetics, Mr. Morrow was instrumental in the development and marketing of very-high field Nb3Sn magnets (1970s), work on the first superconducting MRI magnets including actively-shielded and mobile MRI (1980s) and commercialization of MRI technology. Garry actively pursued new applications of superconductivity and was Vice President the MagStream division of IGC which involved utilizing superconductivity for magnetic separation of materials. 15. Carl H. Rosner (GE, Schenectady; Intermagnetics, Latham; CardioMag Imaging, Schenectady) ~ Mr. Rosner co-founded Intermagnetics General Corporation (Guilderland and Latham, NY) in 1971, prior to which he was Manager of General Electric’s Superconductivie Products Operation in Schenectady. During his tenure with IGC, he led the company’s growth to more than 250 employees and to the successful development of a number of applications of superconductivity, most notably superconducting magnets for MRI. Until 1999 he held the roles of Chairman, President and CEO of Intermagnetics. That company was acquired by Philips in 2006. He retired from IGC as Chairman-Emeritus in 2002 to devote his full time to building and developing CardioMag Imaging. Mr. Rosner is a graduate of the Stockholm Institute of Technology, Newark College of Engineering and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with undergraduate and graduate degrees in electrical engineering and business management. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is the author and co-author of many published papers on superconductive and electronic devices. He holds seven patents. 16. William Sampson (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton) ~ A physicist in the Superconducting Magnet Division at BNL, Dr. Sampson has helped to design and build superconducting magnets that keep particle beams circulating in accelerators, such as Brookhaven’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). In the 1960s, he built some of the first superconducting magnets to exceed 10 Tesla, 200,000 times the earth’s magnetic field. Sampson also made early models of dipole and quadrupole magnets, used for bending and focusing beams of particles in accelerators. Accelerators around the world, including RHIC and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, have benefited from this pioneering work. In the 1970s, Sampson made magnets called “wigglers” for the National Synchrotron Light Source, which began operating in 1982. Sampson has also worked on HTS magnets that can operate in high radiation environments. Currently, Sampson is developing very high-field superconducting magnets that may be used in building a high-energy muon collider. He has received the IEEE Council on Superconductivity Award for Significant and Sustained Contributions in the Field of Applied Superconductivity, in particular, for his contributions to the field of large-scale superconductivity ~ 33 ~
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