Nestor J Zaluzec
Rumor has it that Nestor has never taken an electron microscopy course, but that has never stopped him from pontificating on topics that interest him at microscopy conferences for the last 40+ years. He hails from the south side of Chicago, and the State of Illinois, although he has been known to ocassionaly spend the coldest month of North America somewhere in the southern hemisphere. While there he studies translucent liquids created from steeped, germinated and dried grains which have been treated with dried conelike flowers of climbing plants, in order to more fully understand the liquid embrittlement of amorphous and semi-crystalline solid hand-held containers. In addition, he frequently spends time to visit with colleagues at EM Centers around the world to twiddle knobs on their instruments to see what havoc he can wreak.
A Fellow of both Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) as well as the Computational Institute of the University of Chicago, Zaluzec has and continues to hold the tripartite role of Senior Scientist, Educator and Inventor at ANL. As an innovator, his research includes development state-of-the art of instrumentation and techniques for atomic resolution x-ray & electron spectroscopy, and electron microscopy. In addition to creating tools for science, as a researcher he also uses these bleeding edge technologies to study vexing problems in technologically important materials. Over the last quarter of a century, his work has included studies in the areas of: structural phase transformations in metals, radiation damage in alloys, ceramic oxides for geologic immobilization of nuclear waste materials, elemental segregation in semiconductor devices, to genetically engineered proteins for creation of two dimensional biological templates for magnetic nanoarrays. He was one of the earliest to realize the potential impact of the Internet on science and established the TelePresence Microscopy Collaboratory,[8] which has served as a model for outreach to both the scientific and education communities providing unencumbered access to scientific resources. In addition to his roles as an adjunct professor at various Illinois universities, he also strives to engage the next generation of scientists through his work with the Illinois Junior Academy of Science, where he continues to interact on a one to one basis with middle and high school students.
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