APS gets a new head

Dr Murray Gibson has been appointed Associate Laboratory Director for the Advanced Photon Source (APS), effective as of 22 October 2001. Dr Gibson has been the Director of the Materials Science Division at Argonne since 1998, where he has overseen Argonne's early efforts in nanosciences and fostered the development of the X-ray nanoprobe. Dr Gibson received his BSc (Physics) in 1975 from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge, England (1978). Prior to joining Argonne, he was at the University of Illinois, as a Joint Professor in the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Physics.

Figure 1 Dr Murray Gibson.