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Bilderback, Donald Heywood was born on March 6, 1947 in Usumbura, Burundi. Son of Allen H. and Lillian A. (Watkins) Bilderback. came to the United States, 1950.
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Donald Heywood Bilderback, Burundian Physicist, educator. Achievements include developing capillary x-ray optics on a micron scale; inventor of real-time back-reflection Laue camera and the transmission x-ray mirror. Recipient award Research and Development Magazine, 1993; co-recipient Compton award Argonne Laboratory, 1998.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Physics, Seattle Pacific U., 1969; Doctor of Philosophy of Physics, Purdue University, 1975.
Career
Manager Material Science X-ray, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1975-1978; president Multiwire laboratories, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, since 1981. Associate professor Applied and Engineering Physics Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, 1990, associate director CHESS. Consultant several Synchrotron Radiation laboratories, since 1985.
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Membership
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society, American Crystallographic Association, American Science Affiliation.
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Married Becky B. Belcher, September 16, 1969. 1 child, Douglas H.
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Republican