User:Joel M. Williams
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About me
I am a retired material scientist/chemist from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, living with my wife in Los Alamos, NM, USA. I have spent a number of years creating materials for the physicists at the laboratory, working on remediating hazardous wastes, several years in texile fibers technical problems, and a variety of miscellaneous ventures with NASA.
I have a B.S. degree in Chemistry from the College of William and Mary and a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from Northwestern University. I am a life-time member of Sigma Xi.
I have authored or coauthered 80 citable papers on over a dozen major topic areas and a number of miscellaneous topics. See Publications for complete, detailed list.
My website is [1].
I joined Citizendium in February 2011 as an author and editor.
Some of my favorite quotes
- "One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea", W. Bagehot
- "New opinions are always suspect, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common", J Locks
Biography
Academic credentials:
PhD Chemistry 1966 (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL)
Asst. prof. chemistry 1967-8 (U. Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN)
research chemist 1968-72 (E.I. DuPont de Nemours, Waynesboro, VA)
staff member1972-93 (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM)
Contractor to LANL 1995-7 (Ray Raskin Associates)
Consultant 1993-present (JMC Williams Consultants)
Publications: