UpDate - Vol. 14, No. 16, Page 3
January 5, 1995
Henry Glyde re-appointed chairperson of agency

     Henry Glyde, professor of physics and astronomy, has recently
been re-appointed to a second term as chairperson of the Research and
Development Advisory Panel to Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL).
     The panel reports to the AECL board of directors and management.
As chairperson, Glyde also serves on the Science and Technology
Committee of the board. Before becoming chairperson, he served on the
panel for two years.
     AECL is a government-owned company that researches, develops and
markets nuclear reactors nationally and internationally. It has an
office in Washington, D.C., and several research contracts and
collaborative agreements with the U.S. Department of Energy,
particularly in nuclear fuel waste management. With an annual
operating budget of $350 million, the company has made sales in the
international market valued at $5.5 billion since 1990.
     The Research and Development Advisory Panel was created in 1990
to advise on the core competencies needed by AECL in a period of
restraint and to advise on the appropriate balance between short-term
research needed to service existing nuclear power stations and longer-
term research needed to develop future reactor options.
     AECL research also serves as a basic research laboratory for
Canada. This year's Nobel Prize in physics was awarded jointly to
Bertram N. Brockhouse of Canada and to Clifford M. Shul from the
United States for the study of matter using neutrons. Brockhouse's
prize-winning research was done when he was at the Chalk River
Laboratories of AECL Research. Shul's prize-winning work was done at
Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
     From 1989 to 1991, while at the University of Alberta, Glyde
served as president of the Canadian Institute for Neutron Scattering.
In 1992, when he was back at Delaware, Glyde chaired a committee that
founded a sister organization in the U.S., the Neutron Scattering
Society of America, (NSSA).