Gregory Boebinger has been tapped to head the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. This month, he moves from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to the NHMFL’s headquarters in Tallahassee, Florida, to succeed founding director Jack Crow.
At the top of Boebinger’s to-do list is putting together a proposal for renewed funding for the magnet lab, which has some 300 scientists and engineers on staff, hosts more than 400 user groups annually, and gets about $25 million a year from NSF. The agency will decide later this spring whether to open the funding to competition for 2006–10. “We’ll find out if we are competing against our own past accomplishments or against others’ proposals,” says Boebinger.
“A major focus of my efforts will be publicizing the role of the high magnetic field lab both to the general public and to the international science community,” he says. “High magnetic fields are at a...
