[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 98 (Friday, June 28, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S7323]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY

   Mr. SIMON. Mr. President, I would like to thank the great 
State of New York and IBM Corp. for sending to Illinois the 
distinguished scientist and research executive, Dr. Dean Eastman, who 
on July 15 becomes director of Argonne National Laboratory near 
Chicago.
  As an essential part of this Nation's science and technology research 
establishment, Argonne long has been a world-class research center. It 
is one of the Nation's nine multiple program national laboratories, and 
the only one in the Midwest.
  Dr. Eastman comes to Argonne at an especially challenging time for 
America's science community. As we approach the 21st Century, a time 
when this Nation and the world will increasingly rely upon 
technological breakthroughs by a dynamic and highly motivated 
scientific research establishment, not all of our citizens realize how 
vital such research is to the preservation and enhancement of our 
quality of life. Leaders of our scientific community today must 
therefore be persuasive educators, as well as efficient managers and 
talented scientists.
  Fortunately for Argonne, for Illinois, and for the Nation, Dr. 
Eastman's record suggests he is more than equal to this challenge. He 
is a world-renowned expert on the electronic properties of materials 
and spectroscopy. Prior to his current position as vice president of 
technical strategy and development re-engineering with the IBM server 
group, he also served as IBM director of hardware development re-
engineering at IBM's research division. In addition, he has been 
involved in many national science and engineering policy and advisory 
activities.
  Dr. Eastman is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the 
National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and 
Sciences. He was made an IBM Fellow in 1974 and received the Oliver E. 
Buckley Prize in 1980.
  Mr. President, I welcome him and his family to Illinois, and wish him 
the very best as he undertakes the important national mission now in 
his charge.

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