[Cuga] The passing of Dr. William Bradford Tippens- A message from Dr. Timothy Hallman

[Lorelei Carlson]

Dear Colleague:
 
We are deeply saddened to inform you of the passing of
Dr. William Bradford (Brad) Tippens in the early morning of
March 15, 2011.  Since 2000, Brad had served as the Program
Manager for the Medium Energy Program in the Office of
Nuclear Physics of the DOE Office of Science. 
 
Brad received his Ph.D. degree from Texas A&M University
in 1984 in nuclear physics, working on a series of polarized
nucleon-nucleon experiments for his doctoral dissertation. 
Following receipt of his doctorate, Brad was a research
associate at the University of Virginia; while there he was
involved in the MEGA experiment and the TRIPLE collaboration
at Los Alamos National Laboratory.  In 1989, he accepted a
research physicist position at the University of California, Los Angeles. 
In this position he had responsibility for the design, presentation,
mounting, and execution of two experimental programs at the
Alternating Gradient Synchrotron at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
The first of these two programs involved a precision test of charge
symmetry and the production of the eta particle.  The second was
an ambitious program in baryon spectroscopy using the Crystal Ball 
detector. 
These scientific activities resulted in a number of journal publications,
and contributions to conference proceedings.
 
In 2000, Brad joined the Nuclear Physics Division in what was then the
Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics, where he assumed the
position of Program Manager for the Medium Energy Program.  Brad
was a tireless supporter of his program, which he held to the highest
standards as those in the program know well.   Among his many
accomplishments were  the management of the 6 GeV research program
and the developing 12 GeV program at Jefferson Laboratory, initiation of
the program to measure the spin components of the proton at Brookhaven
National Laboratory, and support of other important efforts including a
Drell-Yan experiment and a neutrino oscillation experiment at Fermi
National Accelerator Laboratory, atom trapping development aimed
towards an atomic electric dipole moment measurement, the physics
program with the BLAST detector at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology Bates facility, and experiments at several European 
laboratories. 
He administered approximately 45 university grants, large and small,
with a strong vision to help researchers, and especially students, 
accomplish
important science.  Within the DOE, he took on a number of additional
responsibilities, including management of the Nuclear Physics Outstanding
Junior Investigator program, serving as the point-of-contact for education
matters for Nuclear Physics, and taking part in the early efforts to 
modernize
electronic workflow within the Office of Science.
 
Brad made his home near Columbia, Maryland.  He is survived by his wife,
Tabitha, and three sons, Jonathan, Nathaniel, and Daniel. Funeral plans 
are pending.
 
Brad will be greatly missed by those in the Office of Nuclear Physics.
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