An Unsung Hero

While success is said to have many fathers, the SNS project had at least one critical "mother." Pat Dehmer, as Associate Director for Basic Energy Sciences in the Department of Energy's Office of Science, in her words "didn't have a neutron-free day" from virtually the moment she assumed her job in 1996. Widely respected for both her scientific and political credentials, Dehmer was an articulate and effective proponent for the SNS project within DOE and, perhaps more important, on Capitol Hill. Her passion for DOE's role in America's scientific research community was a driving force in the ability to provide focus amid the distractions that threatened the SNS project's design and construction.

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