Nancy Dudney
{{Short description|American materials scientist}}
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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.{{r|ornes}}
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,{{r|cv}} supervised by Robert L. Coble.{{r|isni}}
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.{{r|cv}} She retired in 2021.{{r|ornes|nae}}
Recognition
Dudney was named as a fellow of the Electrochemical Society in 2013. UT–Battelle named her as a distinguished inventor in 2014,{{r|nae}} and Oak Ridge named her as a corporate fellow in 2015.{{r|corp}} She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022,{{r|nae}} "for contributions to the development of high-performance solid-state rechargeable batteries".{{r|naemem}}
References
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{{citation |last=Ornes |first=Stephen |title=The Tricky Challenge Holding Back Electric Cars |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=118 |issue=26 |year=2021 |pages=1–5 |jstor=27040755 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27040755}}
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Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering