[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 54 (Wednesday, April 15, 2015)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E503]
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                   IN RECOGNITION OF MR. RICHARD POST

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                           HON. ERIC SWALWELL

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, April 15, 2015

  Mr. SWALWELL of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the 
life of an exemplary scientist, Richard Post. Post was a remarkable 
physicist and inventor at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) 
in Livermore, California.
  Post was a passionate inventor who had his name on over 34 patents. 
In the 1970s he introduced the possibility of lightweight composites 
that could possibly store great amounts of renewable energy. In recent 
years, his research focused primarily on methods of storing renewable 
energy in a flywheel. Post's research sought to combat global warming 
by using flywheels to make renewable energy sources more accessible and 
affordable.
  Post's extraordinary career spanned over 60 years. After World War 
II, when Post was stationed at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and 
assigned to Pearl Harbor, he completed his graduate studies at Pomona 
College and earned a Ph.D. in physics in 1950 from Stanford University.
  Post spent a year at what would become Lawrence Berkeley National 
Laboratory, working with Nobel Prize winners and noted nuclear 
physicist Herb York, who would become LLNL's first director. Post 
followed York to LLNL just months after the lab opened in 1952. In 1978 
he received the prestigious James Clerk Maxwell Prize in Plasma 
Physics.
  Post will long be remembered for his contribution to sustainable 
energy and his work and efforts will be continued by his colleagues at 
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. I invited my colleagues to join 
me in honoring the life of Dr. Richard Post.

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