Education:

• Ph.D. (Solid State Physics), University of California, San Diego, 1974
• B.A. (Physics), Carnegie-Mellon, 1969

Research and Professional Experience:

• 1988–Present, Senior Research Staff Member, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• 1981–1988, Research Staff Member, ORNL
• 1976–1981, Research Scientist, University of California San Diego (with M. B. Maple)
• 1974–1976, Research Scientist, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany (with D. K. Wohlleben)

Professional Activities and Honors:

• Fellow of The American Physical Society
• Member, Materials Research Society
• Member, Editorial Advisory Board of the "Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids"
• IR-100 Award winner, 1985
• Science Digest-100 Most Significant Technological Achievements in 1984-1985
• Inventor of the Year 1985, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Significant Implications for Energy Technology in Solid State Physics Award, 1984 DOE Materials Sciences Research Competition
• Technical Publication Award 1992
• Technical Achievement Award (LMES, UT-Battelle) 1995, 1997, 2000, 2001
• Distinguished Scientist Award 2007 (UT-Battelle)
  

Professional Expertise:

• Dr. Sales has over thirty years of experience with the synthesis, and characterization of unusual electronic and magnetic materials, particularly those involving rare-earth elements. Dr. Sales has received awards from the U. S. Department of Energy, IR-100, and Science Digest and he was named the 1985 Inventor of the Year at ORNL. Dr. Sales has authored more than 220 papers, seven patents and five book chapters and is a fellow of the American Physical Society, and an active member of the Materials Research Society and American Chemical Society. His current h (Hirsch) number is 43. Sixteen of his papers have each been cited more than 100 times and all were cited in the previous year. Five of the papers are on new thermoelectric materials, five on high T_c superconductivity, two on correlated electron materials, two on oscillatory catalytic reactions, and one on low dimensional magnetism and one on batteries. Of the sixteen papers Sales was either the first or primary author on seven. His Science article on Filled Skutterudites is one of the most highly cited thermoelectric articles ever. Sales has also worked on materials for the disposal of high-level nuclear waste and developed techniques for measuring the intermediate range order in phosphate glasses.

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