Kevin Aylesworth

Kevin Aylesworth, an experimental physicist, was selected as the American Physical Society 1995-95 Congressional Science Fellow. He has worked out of the office of Senator Tom Harkin on defense, disarmament, energy and veterans' issues. He received his BS in physics from the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point in 1983. He received his Ph.D. in experimental condensed matter physics from the University of Nebraska in 1989, then served as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Associate at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC. During his post doc he founded the Young Scientists' Network to alert policy makers to the deteriorating job market in science. Kevin Aylesworth is a Senior Program Officer at the National Research Council. His present job revolves around science policy rather than building things in the lab, His articles on scientific employment appeared in Newsweek Focus, APS News, and Physics Today.

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