Nancy Johnson Dudney is a retired American materials scientist, formerly a corporate fellow at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
[1] Dudney graduated from the College of William & Mary in 1975, with a bachelor's degree in chemistry.
She earned a Ph.D. in ceramics in 1979 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,[2] supervised by Robert L.
She became a group leader in thin film ceramics in 1999, a senior research staff member in 2006, and a distinguished senior research staff member in 2010.
[5] She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022,[4] "for contributions to the development of high-performance solid-state rechargeable batteries".