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To be fair it should be noted that Samuel Bodman, the current Secretary of Energy, is probably not a fool even though he doesn't have a nobel prize. He does ho
by aheilbut 18y ago
To be fair it should be noted that Samuel Bodman, the current Secretary of Energy, is probably not a fool even though he doesn't have a nobel prize. He does hold an Sc.D. in chemical engineering from MIT and was a prof there, though this may be negated a bit by a long career in finance.
- Retric 18y agoIn 1965, he completed his ScD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For the next six years he served as an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT. But after 1972 he seems to have avoided any hands on work in the field focusing on: "From there, Secretary Bodman went to Fidelity Venture Associates, a division of the Fidelity Investments. In 1983 he was named President and Chief Operating Officer of Fidelity Investments and a Director of the Fidelity Group of Mutual Funds. In 1987, he joined Cabot Corporation, a Boston-based Fortune 300 company with global business activities in specialty chemicals and materials, where he served as Chairman, CEO, and a Director. Over the years, he has been a Director of many other publicly owned corporations." So clearly he is intelligent, has management experience, and a reasonable if dated science background, but WTF is he doing overseeing the department of energy?