About the Author

Raymond L. Murray (Ph.D., University of Tennessee) is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Nuclear Engineering of North Carolina State University. His technical interests include reactor analysis, nuclear criticality safety, radioactive waste management, and applications of computers.

Dr. Murray studied under J. Robert Oppenheimer at the University of California at Berkeley. In the Manhattan Project of World War II, he contributed to the uranium isotope separation process at Berkeley and Oak Ridge.

In the early 1950s, he helped found the first university nuclear engineering program and the first university nuclear reactor. During his 30 years of teaching and research in reactor analysis at North Carolina State, he taught many of our leaders in universities and industry throughout the world. He is the author of textbooks in physics and nuclear technology and the recipient of a number of awards, including the Eugene P. Wigner Reactor Physicist Award of the American Nuclear Society in 1994. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society, and a member of several honorary, scientific, and engineering societies.

Since retirement from the university, Dr. Murray has been a consultant on criticality for the Three Mile Island Recovery Program, served as chairman of the North Carolina Radiation Protection Commission, and served as chairman of the North Carolina Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Authority. He provides an annual lecture at MIT for the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations.