Paul K. Kearns is an American physicist. He received his bachelor’s degree from

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in Natural Resources & Environmental Science in 1976 and a masters and Ph.D. in bionucleonics from Purdue University in 1977 and 1980, respectively.

Career

Kearns is laboratory director of

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and president of UChicago Argonne, LLC, the organization managing Argonne on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy’s

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. Kearns’ responsibilities include oversight of the upgrade of the

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and construction of one of the U.S.’s first exascale computing systems. He also oversees a broad portfolio of basic and applied research consisting of discovery science, energy and climate research and development, global security, and the design and operation of large-scale research facilities. Kearns is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Kearns has delivered testimony in front of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and co-chaired the 2020 American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting.

Publications and invited presentations

* Kearns, P. K. and R. Vetter. (2004) “Manganese-54 accumulation by Chlorella spp., Daphnia magna and yellow perch (Perca flavescens).” ''Hydrobiologia'' 88: 277-280. * Kearns, P.K., Holton, L.K., Brown, N.R., and Gilbert, R.A. (1998) “Waste Treatment Technology Development to Enable TWRS Phase 1 Privatization,”
Proceedings of Spectrum 1998
', International Conference on Decommissioning and Decontamination and on Nuclear and Hazardous Waste Management. * Jaksch, J., Kearns, P., Weimar, M., Robinson, B., Laster, M., Scully, L., Lemeshewsky, W., Gilbert, R., and Brown, N., (1998) “The Use of Innovative Contract Terms and Conditions to Achieve a Balanced Risk Allocation for Market-Driven Contract Initiatives, ”

' (Tucson, AZ, March 1998). * Kearns, P.K., Atchison, G.J. (1979) "Effects of trace metals on growth of yellow perch (Perca flavescens) as measured by RNA-DNA ratios." ''Environ Biol Fish'' 4, 383–387.

References

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