Millennium Magazine_5th Ed

300 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine A leader in the technology industry, Dr. Thomas J. Bowles received a BS in physics and mathematics from the University of Colorado in 1973 and obtained a PhD in physics from Princeton University in 1978. He has contributed to more than 20 articles published in professional journals. Dr. Bowles currently holds three positions: he has been the executive director of the North American Intelligent Manufacturing Initiative since 2013, an affiliate professor in the physics department at the University of Washington since 1995 and a staff member at the Los Alamos National Laboratory since 1979. Dr. Bowles commenced his career in 1973 at the Environmental Protection Agency in Denver. He became a laboratory instructor in the physics department at Princeton University in 1974, and from 1976 to 1979, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Argonne National Laboratory. Dr. Bowles was appointed as a fellow in 1994 at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and then as chief science officer from 2004 to 2006 and as chief scientist in 2006, and he served as science advisor to New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson from 2006 to 2010. In 2012, Dr. Bowles was named a NewMexicoNonprofit Titan of Information Technology and received the New Mexico Climate Change Leadership Institute Innovation Award. He has also been a recipient of the New Mexico Rainmaker Award and NewMexico Technology Council Award, as well as the Markov Prize from the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute for Nuclear Research in 2003. In 2001, he earned the Distinguished Performance Award from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and he is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and American Physical Society. Dr. Bowles served as the vice chair of the U.S.-Mexico Foundation for Science and serves as a council member and chair of the technology commercialization committee on theMexico-United States Entrepreneurship and Innovation Council. Additionally, he served on the U.S. Nuclear Science Advisory Committee, on the board for the New Mexico Technology Council and is the lead for New Mexico on the Green Grid Initiative. THOMAS J. BOWLES, PHD FELLOW Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM SCIENCES, PHARMACEUTICALS AND BIOTECHNOLOGY