Thomas L. Reinecke ‘68 is the Senior Scientist for Nanoscience and head of Semiconductor Physics Section at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C.  He is a member of the Senior Executive Service of the U.S. Civil Service and has trained 25 post-doctoral fellows in physics. He also has been a visiting scientist at Max Planck Institute, University of Wuerzburg, University of Stuttgart and University of Dortmund in Germany. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1968. Other major honors include a National Science Foundation Fellowship in 1968; Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellowship in 1968; Humboldt Prize of Germany in 1994; named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1982; Sigma Xi Award for Outstanding Research in 1983; U.S. Presidential Rank Executive Award in 2005; E.O. Hulburt Science Award in 1998; J. Shelton Horsley Award of the Virginia Academy of Sciences in 1995; and Department of the Defense Outstanding Scientists and Engineers Award in 2006. He has written more than 300 journal articles and book chapters on a wide range of science and technology. He is a member of the American Physics Society, Materials Research Society, Sigma Xi Society, International Thermoelectrics Society and Virginia Academy of Sciences; as well as research selection committees for the National Science Foundation, Research Corp.; Office of Naval Research, Department of Energy and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; and a member of the Rhodes Scholar Selection Committee.  Reinecke is a native of Ripon, Wis., and now lives in Alexandria, Va.