J. Murray Gibson, Ph.D.
Associate Laboratory Director,
Scientific User Facilities
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J. Murray Gibson is the associate laboratory director responsible for Scientific
User Facilities. He is responsible for efficient, effective and productive
operation of the Advanced Photon Source (APS) and the Intense Pulsed
Neutron Source (IPNS).
He also serves as the Director of the Advanced Photon Source.
The Scientific User Facilities directorate is made up of:
The APS is the brightest source of X-rays in
the western hemisphere and is used to study the structures of materials
and processes at the atomic scale. It is also the largest scientific
user facility in the North America, with 3,000 users visiting each year. The
IPNS is the nation's most productive source of neutrons for materials
research.
Gibson earned his B.Sc. with first class honors in natural philosophy (physics)
from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1975 and his Ph.D. in physics
from the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge in 1978. After two years as a postdoctoral
fellow at IBM Yorktown Heights, he joined the Physics Division of Bell Laboratories
in Murray Hill, NJ. He became head of the Electronics and Photonics Materials
Research Department there in 1987. In 1991, Dr. Gibson moved to the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a professor in the departments of Physics
and of Materials Science and Engineering. In 1997, he served as a visiting
professor at the Centre d'Etudes de Chimie Metalurgie in Vitry, France.
After five years as associate director of the Frederick Seitz Materials Research
Laboratory in Urbana, in 1998 he moved to Argonne as Director of the Materials
Science Division. He led Argonne's initial efforts in nanoscience, which
eventually led to the establishment of the Center for Nanoscale Materials.
He was appointed to his current position in 2001.
Gibson's research, focused on the use of innovative electron diffraction
techniques in the study of materials physics in thin films, has resulted in
more than 180 journal papers and 120 invited presentations at conferences.
He holds seven patents, and has received the Burton Medal of the Microscopy
Society of America, the Distinguished Lecturer award of the American Vacuum
Society, and the Greig Prize from the University of Aberdeen. He is a Fellow
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical
Society and the Royal Microscopical Society, and has been a Councilor of the
Materials Research Society, a director of the Microscopy Society of America,
chair of the Materials Physics Division of the American Physical Society,
and a member of the National Research Council's Solid-State Sciences Committee.
He has served on many review committees, as chair of several conferences,
and on the editorial boards of Applied Physics Review, Interface Science,
Applied Physics Letters and the Journal of Applied Physics.
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