Advanced Photon Source

Dr. Russell H. Huebner, Sr.
Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne, Illinois

May 21, 1998

As a national user facility for research in fields as diverse as biotechnology, oil, medical imaging, computers, steel, waste management, communications, defense, materials science, and nuclear energy to name a few, the APS is expected to stimulate rapid advances in American industrial research.

Dr. Huebner will discuss the basic operation of the APS, a synchrotron producing the world's brightest X-rays. Included will be beam production, focusing, and other aspects of X-ray optics and applications.

Bio Sketch
Dr. Huebner joined Argonne in 1970 after a two-year appointment with the Atomic Energy Commision, Division of Biology and Medicine, as radiological physicist. His research as physicist in the Radiological and Environmental Research division for seven years concerned electron energy-loss spectroscopy of molecules. During this period, he directed the research of a postdoctoral appointee from Japan, four undergraduate research participants, and developed an electron spectrometer system still used for research today. He was invited to lecture at two NATO Advanced Study Institutes held in Europe and collaborated with scientists at the National Bureau of Standards on the publication of research papers and a review book chapter. In 1988, Dr. Huebner was assigned policy and planning responsibilities for Argonne's new 7-GeV Advanced Photon Source, a $456 million National User Facility to be completed in the mid-1990's.