Millennium Magazine_6th Ed

71 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine D r. Arthur Bienenstock received a BS in 1955 and an MS in 1957, both from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (now the New York University Tandon School of Engineering), and achieved a PhD from Harvard University in 1962. Additionally, he holds honorary PhDs from NYU and Lund University in Sweden. Since 1967, Dr. Bienenstock has been a faculty member at Stanford University, and has served as associate director of the Wallenberg Research Link and special assistant to the president since 2006. A professor of applied physics for 38 years, Dr. Bienenstock has also been vice provost, dean of research and graduate policy, director of the Laboratory for Advanced Materials, director of the Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory and vice provost for faculty affairs. In 2012, President Obama appointed him to the National Science Board, on which he presently serves. Dr. Bienenstock is proud to have grown up in a socially-conscious family, in which he later found a similar community at Stanford. He calls leading the campaign to remove the limit of the number of women who could be students at Stanford one of the highlights of his career, among other opportunities to deal with the advancement of minorities in the student body and faculty while serving as Stanford’s first faculty affirmative action officer. Dr. Bienenstock also calls the development of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory another career highlight. Prior to his time at Stanford, Dr. Bienenstock commenced his career as an assistant professor at Harvard in 1963. From 1997 to 2001, he was an associate director of science for the Office of Science and Technology Policy in Washington, D.C. Hewas the recipient of the 2017 PhillipHague Award fromthe American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has also received distinguished awards from the U.S. Department of Energy, Society of Research Administration and the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, among others. Dr. Bienenstock is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the American Physical Society, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science, Materials Research Society and American Crystallographic Association. ARTHUR BIENENSTOCK, PHD PHYSICIST, EDUCATOR, FEDERAL OFFICIAL Stanford University Stanford, CA EDUCATION