Arthur "Artie" Bienenstock, 1935 -

Professor emeritus of Photon Science, Special Assistant to the President for Federal Research Policy and Director of the Wallenberg Research Link

Professional and Biographical Information

• B.S. Physics Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn 1955
• M.S. Physics Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn 1957
• National Bureau of Standards 1957-1962
• Ph.D. Applied Physics Harvard University 1962
• National Science Foundation post doctoral fellow, Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell (U.K.)1962-1963
• Assistant Professor, Harvard University Division of Engineering and Applied Physics 1963-1967
• Consultant, Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. 1965-1997; 2001-2007
• Stanford University
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Spring 1966
  • Associate Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science and Engineering 1967-1972
  • University Fellow 1971
  • Professor Applied Physics and Materials Science and Engineering 1972-
  • Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Faculty Affirmative Action Officer 1972-1977
  • Director of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory 1978-1997
  • Director of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory 1978-1997
  • Director, Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials 2002-2003
  • Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Policy 2003-2006
  • Professor emeritus of Photon Science, Special Assistant to the President for Federal Research Policy and Director of the Wallenberg research Link   2015-
• Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
  • Member, Advisory Council to the President 1979-1981
  • Vice Chair, Board of Directors 1983-1988
• Member, Board of Directors, Institute for Amorphous Studies 1982-
• Member, United States National Committee for Crystallography 1983-1988
• Member, Science Advisory Committee, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility 1989-1990; 1993-1996
• American Physical Society
  • General Councilor 1993-1996
  • Member, Committee on Applications in Physics 1994-1996
  • Panel on Public Affairs, Member 2002-2006; Chair 2004
  • President 2008
• Associate Director for Science of the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy 1997-2001
• Biographical profile in Nix, William D. A Century of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford. Stanford Historical Society and The Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, 2019. pp 86-91
• Stanford University profile

Honors and Awards

• Pittsburgh Diffraction Society's Sidhu Award (first recipient) 1968
• Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Polytechnic Institute of New York Alumni Association 1977
• Honorary PhD, Polytechnic University 1998
• Distinguished Service Award of the United States Department of Energy 2005
• Honorary Ph.D., Lund University 2006
• Fellow American Physical Society (President 2008)
• Cuthbertson Award, Stanford University 2009
• Elected Foreign Member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences 2010
• Chair, Council of Scientific Society Presidents 2010
• National Science Foundation, National Science Board Appointee 2010 - 2022; Consultant 2023-
• Fellow Institute of Physics
• Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Fellow California Council of Science and Technology
• Member American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2013
• Stanford and SLAC Celebrate Artie Bienenstock, October 22, 2015

Publications

Arthur Bienenstock publications can be found on Google Scholar; InspireHep; and ResearchGate.

Archival Materials

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