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Ernest Moniz

Ernest Moniz
  • Professor of Physics and Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor
  • Co-Director of the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment

Ernest J. Moniz, an MIT faculty member since 1973, has served as Head of the Department of Physics and as Director of the Bates Linear Accelerator Center. He has also served as Under Secretary of the Department of Energy (1997-2001) and as Associate Director for Science in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President (1995-97). Professor Moniz received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Boston College, and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Stanford University.

RESEARCH

His principal research contributions have been in theoretical nuclear physics, particularly in advancing nuclear reaction theory at high energy. His current research interests are centered on energy, science and technology, and national security policy. He is co-chair of the MIT Energy Research Council, an interdisciplinary faculty group that is advancing the MIT President’s energy initiative.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  • "Making the World Safe for Nuclear Power" (with John Deutch, Arnold Kanter, and Daniel Poneman), Survival 46, 65 (Winter 2004-2005).
  • "The Future of Nuclear Power – An Interdisciplinary MIT Report", J.M. Deutch and E.J.Moniz, co-chairs, MIT, July 2003.
  • Moniz, E. J., M. A. Kenderdine, Meeting Energy Challenges: Technology and Policy, Physics Today (April 2002).
  • Moniz, E. J., L. Frankfurt, M. Sargayan, M. Strikman, Correlation Effects in Nuclear Transparency, Physical Review C51 (1995) 3435.
  • Moniz, E. J., F. Lenz, M. Thies, Signatures of Confinement in Axial Gauge QCD, Annals of Physics 242 (1995) 429.

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