Alvin William Trivelpiece (March 15, 1931 – August 7, 2022) was an American physicist whose varied career included positions as director of the Office of Energy Research of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), executive officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
She and her husband, who was a faculty member at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, talked him into staying there and starting college.
[3] 1958 – 1959—Fulbright Scholar in the Netherlands 1959 – 1966—Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley 1966 – 1976—Professor of Physics, University of Maryland 1967—Guggenheim Fellow 1973 – 1975—Assistant Director for Fusion Research, Division of Controlled Thermonuclear Research, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (on leave from the University of Maryland) 1976 – 1978—Vice-president for engineering and research, Maxwell Laboratories, San Diego, CA 1978 – 1981—Corporate Vice-president, Science Applications, Inc., La Jolla, CA 1979—Trivelpiece co-founded the Fusion Power Associates, a fusion advocacy organization, with Stephen O.
The former considered issues related to communication, dissemination, and use of information in the physical sciences and made recommendations for increasing the productivity of the scientific enterprise in the United States.
[6] An April 1987, DOE's Office of Health and Environmental Research (OHER) Health and Environmental Research Advisory Committee (HERAC) report recommended that DOE and the nation commit to a large, multidisciplinary, scientific, and technological undertaking to map and sequence the human genome.
[7] Earmarked spending began in Fiscal Year 1988 when the Human Genome Project was established by congressional action at both the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and DOE.