For the pseudonymous children's book author, see Nancy Dudley.
Nancy Johnson Dudney is a retired American materials scientist, formerly a corporate fellow at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She is known for her research on electric batteries and energy storage.
Education and career
Dudney graduated from the College of William & Mary in 1975, with a bachelor's degree in chemistry. She earned a Ph.D. in ceramics in 1979 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, supervised by Robert L. Coble.
She joined the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1979 for postdoctoral research as a Wigner Fellow, and obtained a permanent staff researcher position there in 1981. She became a group leader in thin film ceramics in 1999, a senior research staff member in 2006, and a distinguished senior research staff member in 2010. She retired in 2021.
Recognition
Dudney was named as a fellow of the Electrochemical Society in 2013. UT–Battelle named her as a distinguished inventor in 2014, and Oak Ridge named her as a corporate fellow in 2015. She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022, "for contributions to the development of high-performance solid-state rechargeable batteries".
References
- ^ Ornes, Stephen (2021), "The Tricky Challenge Holding Back Electric Cars", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118 (26): 1–5, JSTOR 27040755
- ^ Curriculum vitae (PDF), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, retrieved 2024-01-28
- "N. J. Dudney", ISNI, retrieved 2024-01-28
- ^ Esteemed batteries researcher Dudney named to National Academy of Engineering, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, February 10, 2022, retrieved 2024-01-28
- "Nancy J Dudney", Our people, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, retrieved 2024-01-28
- "Dr. Nancy J. Dudney", Members, National Academy of Engineering, retrieved 2024-01-28