Los Alamos creates new postdoctoral fellowship positions

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LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Sept. 30, 1998 -- Los Alamos National Laboratory has established new fellowship opportunities for postdoctoral researchers: the Richard P. Feynman Postdoctoral Fellowship, named for the famed theoretical physicist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics; and the Frederick Reines Postdoctoral Fellowship, named for the former Los Alamos researcher who won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics.

The Laboratory annually will offer up to two awards in each of the two new fellowship categories. Candidates must show clear and definite promise of becoming outstanding leaders in their fields of research.

The Feynman fellowship will provide successful candidates the opportunity to pursue independent research of their own choice in theory and computing, with an emphasis on modeling and simulation.

The Reines fellowship will provide recipients the opportunity to pursue independent research of their own choice in the experimental sciences. The awards will go to outstanding experimentalists regardless of their field of study.

"The objective of these new postdoctoral fellowships is to attract the best talent to help us push the frontiers of computer modeling and simulation and experimental science," said Al Sattelberger, director of Los Alamos' Science and Technology Base Programs office. "Success in modeling and in experimental work will drive science and technology, and enhance our research capabilities and our ability to carry out our mission."

The Feynman and Reines postdoctoral fellowships are modeled after the Laboratory's long-standing J. Robert Oppenheimer Postdoctoral Fellowship. Many recipients of JRO fellowships have gone on to notable careers in science, at Los Alamos and elsewhere.

Candidates for the fellowships must have received a doctoral degree within the last five years or be able to complete all Ph.D. requirements by the start of their appointment at the Laboratory. They also must be U.S. citizens and eligible for a Department of Energy "Q" security clearance. Information about the fellowships is available at http://www.hr.lanl.gov/postdoc. Annual starting salary for the three-year fellowships is $74,900.

Funding for the fellowships is provided by the Laboratory's associate directorate for nuclear weapons. Institutional oversight for the postdoctoral program, including the Oppenheimer, Feynman and Reines fellowships, resides with the Science and Technology Base Programs office.