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Appendix C: Biographical Information
Pages 51-54

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... He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and is a member of the International Astronomical Union and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has recently participated in experiments using the NOVA laser facility at Lawrence Livermore.
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... Dr. Falcone has served on numerous scientific advisory committees, including several for the National Science Foundation involving a science and technology center, the LIGO project at MTT and Caltech, and a visiting committee at NSF; a review committee for the Max Planck Institute in Garching; and advisory committees for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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... He was a nuclear weapons designer at Los Alamos National Laboratory early in his career (1950-1956~. He consults primarily as a member of the Joint Central Team of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (TTER)
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... He is a member of the Naval Studies Board of the National Research Council and has served on the Carner 2 ~ Study, the Mine Warfare Study, and the study on implications of advancing technology for Navy warfare in the t~venty-first century. In addition, he has been a member of numerous advisory boards, including the Advance Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory, the Compact Ignition Tokomak of Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, the Directed Energy Advisory Board of the Strategic Defense Initiative, and the Defense Sciences Advisory Board of Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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