John Marburger

John Harmen "Jack" Marburger III ( born February 8, 1941 in Staten Iceland, New York City; † July 28, 2011 in Port Jefferson, New York ) was an American physicist. He was 1980-1994 President of Stony Brook University and from 1998 director of the Brookhaven National Laboratory. From 2001 to 2009 he was scientific advisor (Science Advisor ) U.S. President George W. Bush and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Life

Marburger grew up in Maryland and studied until 1962 Physics ( Bachelor) at Princeton University. It was followed by a year working at the Goddard Space Flight Center. He then took a post-graduate studies at Stanford University. In 1967 he received his doctorate at Stanford. From 1966 he worked at the University of Southern California ( USC), where he held a professorship in physics and electrical engineering, and at times Dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences was. His research areas were the Nonlinear optics and quantum optics.

In 1980, John Marburger as president of the Stony Brook University. In his term of office lasting until 1994 to establish a bioscience research profile and, in comparison to other colleges falls in the northeastern United States significant increase in federal funding of research projects. After his tenure as president, he was at the university continued to work as a professor.

In the 1980s, he was chairman of a commission to the state of New York to advise scientifically Shoreham nuclear power plant after technical problems and increased costs delayed the construction.

1998 Marburger was appointed director of the Brookhaven National Laboratory, after it had come there to a leakage of tritium and found itself confronted with the establishment of the criticism. For his role in the promotion and implementation of external control him praise from environmental groups was given. During his tenure, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ( RHIC ) was placed in Brooks Haven in order.

U.S. President George W. Bush appointed the Democrats Marburg in September 2001 to the Science Advisor (Science Advisor ) and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. In this position, he had to defend the conservative views of the government on issues such as global warming or stem cell research. In particular, his defense of the government was criticized after allegations of possible influence on the research in federal institutions, including the Union of Concerned Scientists. His successor in office was John Holdren under President Barack Obama.

From 2009 Marburger worked at Stony Brook University again in 2010 as vice president for research.

Marburger was married to Carol Preston Godfrey Marburger and father of two sons.

Publications (selection)

• Kaye Husbands Fealing, Julia I. Lane, John H. Marburger III, Stephanie S. Shipp (eds.): The Science of Science Policy. A Handbook. Stanford University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-8047-7078-1.
• John Marburger: Constructing Reality. Cambridge University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1-107-00483-2.