Siegfried Hecker

Siegfried S. Hecker (b. 1943 in Poland to an Austrian family) served as director of Los Alamos National Laboratory for 11 years (1986 - 1997) and is now a professor at the Management Science and Engineering Department and co-director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. [cite news|url=http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2007/2/16/heckerWillCodirectCisac|title=Hecker will co-direct CISAC|date=February 16, 2007|author=Mahncy Mehrotra|work=The Stanford Daily|accessdate=2008-09-24]

Hecker received his B.S. in Metallurgy in 1965, his M.S. in Metallurgy in 1967, and his Ph.D. in Metallurgy in 1968, all from Case Western Reserve University. Hecker began his professional career as a senior research metallurgist with the General Motors Research Laboratories in 1970 after two years as a postdoctoral appointee at Los Alamos.

Since 1988 Hecker has been a visiting Professor in Materials Engineering at Stanford University. In 2007 he became co-director of the Stanford University Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He also acts as advisor to the Nuclear Threat Initiative board of directors. He has visited North Korea three times in an unofficial capacity to assess the plutonium program at the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center. [citation|url=http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2004_hr/012104hecker.pdf|title=Visit to the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center in North Korea|author=Siegfried S. Hecker|date=21 January 2004|id=LA-UR-04-0340|accessdate=2008-09-24] [citation|url=http://uskoreainstitute.org/pdf/HeckerDenuclearizingNK.pdf|title=Denuclearizing North Korea|author=Siegfried S. Hecker|publisher=Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists|date=May/June 2008|doi=10.2968/064002011|accessdate=2008-09-24]

His achievements have been recognized with the American Nuclear Society's Seaborg Medal and many other awards including the Navy League of the U.S.'s TR & FD Roosevelt Gold Medal for Science Award in 1996.

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* [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/MSandE/people/faculty/shecker/index.html Siegfried S. Hecker] , Management Science and Engineering Department, Stanford University
* [http://www.lanl.gov/history/people/hecker.shtml The Hecker Years 1985-1997] , Los Alamos National Laboratory
* [http://www.crdf.org/profiles/profiles_show.htm?doc_id=291233 Siegfried S. Hecker] , U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation
* [http://cisac.stanford.edu/people/siegfriedshecker/ Siegfried S. Hecker] , Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University