Oral History: William V. Hassenzahl (2016)

William V. Hassenzahl (Member, IEEE) was born in Fort Smith, AR, on July 11, 1940. He received the B.S. degree in physics and electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 1962 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1967.,He was with the Lawrence Berkeley National and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories from 1980 to 1993 and with the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory from 1967 to 1980. He is currently the President of Advanced Energy Analysis, Piedmont, CA, a consulting firm specializing in the areas of electric power and applied physics. His publications include over 200 technical papers and two books on energy storage. He has participated in the development of several superconducting magnets and other superconducting systems, and he is active in the research on medical systems using superconductivity. Dr. Hassenzahl is a Member of the IEEE Council on Superconductivity, where he represents the IEEE Power Engineering Society. He is a Member of several IEEE societies. He is a Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Electricity Storage Association. He was recently the Editor of a series of papers on the applications of superconductivity in the Power Engineering Review.