Raymond L. Orbach
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Raymond Lee Orbach is an American physicist and administator. He currently serves as Under Secretary for Science in the United States Department of Energy.
Orbach received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1956 and a Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1960. Orbach began his academic career as a postdoctoral fellow at Oxford University in 1960 and became an assistant professor of applied physics at Harvard University in 1961. He joined the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) two years later as an associate professor, and became a full professor in 1966.
Orbach's research in theoretical and experimental physics has resulted in the publication of more than 240 scientific articles, and he is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
From 1982 to 1992, he served as the Provost of the College of Letters and Science at UCLA, and from 1992 to 2002 as Chancellor of the University of California, Riverside.
Since March 14, 2002, Orbach has been Director of the Office of Science at the Department of Energy, making him the highest ranking science policy administrator within the DOE. Since June 1, 2006, he has been the first Under Secretary for Science, for which President George W. Bush nominated him after the position was created by the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
Orbach was born in Los Angeles, California. He is married to Eva S. Orbach. They have three children, David, Debbie, and Randy, and seven grandchildren, Kevin, Grant, Erin, Katie, Brian, Nicole, & Dylan.
