Michael S. Lubell is an American physicist. He is the

Mark W. Zemansky Mark Waldo Zemansky (May 5, 1900 – December 29, 1981Bederson, Benjamin"The Physical Tourist: Physics and New York City" Phys. perspect. 5 (2003) 87–121 © Birkha¨ user Verlag, Basel, 2003. Cf. p.106 &c.) was an American physicist. He was a p ...

Professor of Physics at the

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Biography

Lubell received his B.A. from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manha ...

and his M.S. and Ph.D. from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

. He taught at Yale from 1971 to 1981 before joining the faculty of CCNY. He served as department chair of CCN Y's physics department for six and half years. His research has ranged from atomic, molecular, and optical physics to science and technology policy. Lubell also held visiting professorships at the

Brookhaven National Laboratory Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory located in Upton, Long Island, and was formally established in 1947 at the site of Camp Upton, a former U.S. Army base and Japanese internment c ...

, the

University of Texas-Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

, the

University of Bielefeld Bielefeld University (german: Universität Bielefeld) is a university in Bielefeld, Germany. Founded in 1969, it is one of the country's newer universities, and considers itself a "reform" university, following a different style of organization a ...

and the Kavli Institute. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the

American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsi ...

. Lubell is most known for being the director of public affairs of the American Physical Society and one of the most visible spokespersons of the scientific community in Washington D.C. He has formed coalitions with other scientific groups to advocate on behalf of increasing federal funding for science research. Critical of President Donald Trump's policies, he was, however, removed from office a few days after the APS delivered a congratulatory message to Trump and urged him "to make sustained and robust funding of scientific research a top priority."

Personal life and family

Lubell's father was Richard M. Lubell, a former deputy New York City Superintendent of Schools. He is married to Ellen Bloom, daughter of journalist and freelance writer Murray Teigh Bloom, a founder and former president of the

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. His sister-in-law is the writer and

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lubell, Michael Living people Year of birth missing (living people) City College of New York faculty Columbia College (New York) alumni Yale University alumni American physicists Yale University faculty Fellows of the American Physical Society Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science