William Carl Lineberger (December 5, 1939 – October 17, 2023) was an American chemist.
As a child, Lineberger was a Boy Scout and made Eagle rank.
[1] After completing his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Lineberger began teaching at his alma mater, leaving for a research position at the U. S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory and later the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics.
The University of Colorado at Boulder, one of two joint operators of JILA, hired Lineberger as an assistant professor in 1970.
[7] From 2011 to 2016, Lineberger served on the National Science Board and was nominated for a second term by Barack Obama in 2016.