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Deputy Director Press to become Senior Fellow

Bill Press, Los Alamos' deputy director for science and technology programs, is becoming a Senior Fellow in the Decision Applications (D) Division next month.

Press came to the Laboratory in the fall of 1998 from Harvard, where he was a professor of astronomy and physics and in 1976 was the then-youngest tenured professor on the Harvard faculty.

Laboratory Director G. Peter Nanos announced Press' move in a all-employee memo last week. "I would like to express my thanks to Bill for the important contributions he has made in his capacity as deputy director," Nanos said. In the memo, Nanos also said he was planning to create a new chief science officer position to report directly to Nanos and be a member of the Senior Executive Team. The position would be a rotational assignment of limited duration for a distinguished Laboratory scientist, and will not be a line management position. The chief science officer will review science performance across the Laboratory, help create a bridge between fundamental and applied science, and advise on strategic directions in science, Nanos said.

As deputy director for science and technology programs, Press focused on strategic planning, quality of the Laboratory staff and its scientific activities and institutional research initiatives.

Press chaired the Astronomy Department at Harvard from 1982 to 1985 and also worked at Princeton and the California Institute of Technology. Press also has been a consultant to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He has published some 150 papers in the areas of astrophysics, cosmology and computational algorithms and is senior author of the "Numerical Recipes" series of books on scientific computing. He also is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

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