Roger Wirth Falcone (born June 27, 1952) is an American physicist at

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where he is a professor of physics. He is an Elected Fellow at The Optical Society and the

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, and he currently serves as the president of the

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. He is the former director of the

Advanced Light Source The Advanced Light Source (ALS) is a research facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California. One of the world's brightest sources of ultraviolet and soft x-ray light, the ALS is the first "third-generation" synchr ...

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. He serves on the board of directors of the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation and is the chair of the International Scientific Advisory Committee of the Extreme-Light-Infrastructure. His former students include Henry Kapteyn and Margaret Murnane.

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Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty 21st-century American physicists Living people Fellows of the American Physical Society Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows of Optica (society) 1952 births Presidents of the American Physical Society {{US-physicist-stub