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David
E. Pritchard appointed Associate Director of RLE
Succeeds Daniel Kleppner in post
For Immediate Release
MONDAY, 1 July 2003
Contact: William Smith, Assistant
Director for Finance and Sponsor
Relations
Phone: +1.617.253.5621
Email: whs@mit.edu
CAMBRIDGE, MA. 07.01.2003
Jeffrey
H. Shapiro, Director of
the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
and Julius A. Stratton Professor of Electrical
Engineering, has appointed Professor David
E. Pritchard to succeed Professor Daniel
Kleppner as an Associate
Director of RLE. Professor Pritchard joins Professor
Shapiro and Professor Jacob
K. White, RLE's other
Associate Director, to form the Laboratory's intellectual
leadership.
Professor Pritchard is the Cecil and Ida Green
Professor of Physics. Among his many research
achievements in RLE are the pioneering of atom
interferometry, the invention of the widely used
magneto-optical atom trap, and the development
of the world’s most accurate mass spectrometer.
Professor Pritchard is also deeply engaged in
educational innovation through his creation of
CyberTutor, a Web-based system which attempts
to reproduce the effect of a master teacher interacting
one-on-one with each student.
Professor Pritchard is a member of the National
Academy of Science, and a Fellow of the American
Physical Society, the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences, and the Optical Society of
America.
Professor Kleppner, the Lester Wolfe Professor
of Physics, was Associate Director of RLE since
1987, and Interim Director of the Laboratory from
April 2000 through January 2001. Professor Kleppner
will continue to be active in atomic physics research
in RLE and will retain his position as Director
of the National Science Foundation MIT-Harvard
Center for Ultracold Atoms.
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