Nancy Johnson Dudney is a retired American materials scientist, formerly a corporate fellow at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She is known for her research on electric batteries and energy storage.[1]

Education and career

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Dudney graduated from the College of William & Mary in 1975, with a bachelor's degree in chemistry. She earned a Ph.D. in ceramics in 1979 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,[2] supervised by Robert L. Coble.[3]

She joined the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1979 for postdoctoral research as a Wigner Fellow, and obtained a permanent staff researcher position there in 1981. She became a group leader in thin film ceramics in 1999, a senior research staff member in 2006, and a distinguished senior research staff member in 2010.[2] She retired in 2021.[1][4]

Recognition

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Dudney was named as a fellow of the Electrochemical Society in 2013. UT–Battelle named her as a distinguished inventor in 2014,[4] and Oak Ridge named her as a corporate fellow in 2015.[5] She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022,[4] "for contributions to the development of high-performance solid-state rechargeable batteries".[6]

References

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  1. ^ a b Ornes, Stephen (2021), "The Tricky Challenge Holding Back Electric Cars", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118 (26): 1–5, JSTOR 27040755
  2. ^ a b Curriculum vitae (PDF), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, retrieved 2024-01-28
  3. ^ "N. J. Dudney", ISNI, retrieved 2024-01-28
  4. ^ a b c Esteemed batteries researcher Dudney named to National Academy of Engineering, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, February 10, 2022, retrieved 2024-01-28
  5. ^ "Nancy J Dudney", Our people, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, retrieved 2024-01-28
  6. ^ "Dr. Nancy J. Dudney", Members, National Academy of Engineering, retrieved 2024-01-28