In 1981, Dr. James Chung Fang Wang received a Five-Star Award from Pollution Engineering magazine in honor of his development of the tapered element oscillation micro-balance.
LIVERMORE, CA, February 12, 2020 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present James Chung Fang Wang with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Dr. Wang celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Having accrued well over 40 years of inimitable expertise in the fields of aeronautics and astronautics, Dr. Wang most recently garnered a laudable reputation as the manager of the analytical materials science department on behalf of the Sandia National Laboratories before his retirement in 2007. A wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International, the Sandia National Laboratories are charged with maintaining the reliability and security of nuclear weapons, research methods for arms control and nonproliferation, and the disposal of hazardous waste. Assuming the role in 1991, Dr. Wang was responsible for directing the research staff in analytical chemistry, infrared and laser diagnostics, electron microscopy, and X-ray diffraction for aging nuclear weapon stockpiles stored at the facility, as well as overseeing research and development projects. An employee of the laboratory's California site since 1978, he began as a member of the technical staff and gradually rose to become a distinguished staff member in 1988, after which he was promoted to department manager in 1991.
Prior to his retirement, Dr. Wang likewise held the position of director of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Metal Hydride Center of Excellence between 2005 and 2007, during which time he managed the technical direction of various partner organizations towards meeting the DOE's FreedomCAR initiative and Fuels Partnership's hydrogen storage goals for fuel-cell powered vehicular applications, of which Sandia was also affiliated. Before embarking upon his career with the laboratory, he began as a research assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1966 until 1971, after which he worked as a research associate at the University of Michigan from 1971 to 1972. Dr. Wang's first formal position in the field was as a mechanical engineer for General Electric in Schenectady, New York, between 1972 and 1978.
An expert in his field, Dr. Wang was closely involved in a project which sought to develop materials which could store energy for lithium batteries. To wit, he holds several U.S. patents relating to this area of research, including a method and solvent composition for regenerating an ion exchange resin, and an optical double-slit particle measurement system and structural micro porous carbon anode for rechargeable lithium batteries. What's more, Dr. Wang earned distinction during his career as a highly sought-after scholar, and has authored or co-authored more than 30 articles for various scientific journals and symposia. To name only a few examples, he has published on behalf of such journals as Applied Spectroscopy, Aerosol Science and Technology, the Journal of the Air Pollution Control Association, and Turbulence Combustion. Likewise, he has presented his findings at several conferences, including the Rarefied Gas Dynamics' 10th International Symposium in 1976, the Minnesota Symposium on Laser Anemometry Proceedings during the same year, and the Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on the Transfer and Utilization of Particulate Control Technology in 1978.
Before embarking upon his professional journey, Dr. Wang attained a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering at National Taiwan University in Taipei in 1965. Upon his arrival in the U.S. in 1966, he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he obtained a Master of Science and a Doctor of Science in aeronautics astronautics in 1968 and 1972, respectively. Among his professional affiliations, Dr. Wang was a member of the Electrochemical Society and an associate fellow of the Aeronautical Society, as well as the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, where he was a member of the sensor systems technical committee.
In 1981, Dr. Wang received a Five-Star Award from Pollution Engineering magazine in honor of his development of the tapered element oscillation micro-balance, a measurement tool used to measure the size of particles in the air to determine pollution levels. A celebrated Marquis listee, he has been included in the fourth edition of Who's Who in Science and Engineering. Outside of Dr. Wang's career aspirations, he enjoys such diversions as playing golf, Chinese calligraphy, and spending quality time with his family.
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