Siegfried Hecker
| Siegfried S. Hecker | |
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Siegfried Hecker in 2011
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| Born |
October 2, 1943 Tomaszew, Poland |
| Nationality | Austrian-Polish-American |
| Fields | Metallurgical Engineering |
| Institutions |
Los Alamos National Laboratory Center for International Security and Cooperation Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Stanford University |
| Alma mater |
Case Western Reserve University (B.Sc.), (M.Sc.), (Ph.D.) |
| Known for | Nuclear weapons, Nuclear proliferation, Nuclear strategy |
| Notable awards | Enrico Fermi Award, Seaborg Medal USDOE Distinguished Associate Award, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award |
Siegfried S. Hecker (born October 2, 1943) is an American metallurgist and nuclear scientist. He served as the Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1986 till 1997 and is now affiliated with Stanford University, where he holds the position of research professor in the Department of Management Science and Engineering in the School of Engineering and of Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Hecker's parents came from Sarajevo, Bosnia and were moved during World War II to Tomasow, Poland, where Hecker was born. When his father had not returned from the war at the Eastern Front, his mother remarried and settled in Rottenmann, Austria. The family emigrated from Styria to the US in 1956.
Hecker completed his Bachelor of Science in Metallurgy in 1965, his Master of Science in Metallurgy in 1967, and his Doctor of Philosophy in Metallurgical Engineering in 1968, all from Case Western Reserve University. He then spent two years as a postdoctoral appointee at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Hecker began his professional career as a senior research metallurgist with the General Motors Research Laboratories in 1970.
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