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G. B. Melesed-d’Hospital
G. B. Melese-d’Hospital is senior technical advisor to the Vice President, Advanced Power Systems, at General Atomic Co. in San Diego. After obtaining his PhD in fluid mechanics at Johns Hopkins University in 1954, he became head of the thermal design group for gas-cooled reactors at the French Nuclear Center of Saclay. In 1957, he joined the faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Department of Columbia University where he started the Nuclear Engineering Program. Dr. Melese-d’Hospital moved to General Atomic in La Jolla in 1960 to work on the design of high-temperature and gascooled fast reactors, and more recently on fusion technology. He has been active since that time within the American Nuclear Society of which he is a Fellow and a member of the Board of Directors.