Selected Scientific Publications
About The Authors
About
the Authors
LEONARD REIFFEL, PhD.
Exelar was founded by Leonard
Reiffel, Ph.D. He is serving as Chairman and Chief Technical
Officer. Len took public Interand Corporation (developer of such devices
as the globally-used Telestrator made famous by US sportscaster John
Madden on CBS and ABC).
Earlier in his career Len
was Deputy Director for Sciences of the Apollo Program at NASA Headquarters
in Washington DC. Prior to joining NASA, Dr. Reiffel was Group Vice
President of the IIT Research Institute, where he supervised a technical
staff of 300 scientists and engineers. For the past five years, Reiffel
has led the medical physics research team developing Exelar's technology.
The project has been continuously supported by the federally-funded
National Medical Technology Testbed program whose mission is to facilitate
getting new advanced technologies into medical practice.
Dr. Reiffel is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the
Board of Overseers at his alma mater, the Illinois Institute of Technology.
ROGER
WHEATLEY
Roger Wheatley became associated with Exelar
in 1998 as a consultant. He has been responsible for the various magnet
designs that form an essential part of Exelar's products. Roger has almost
30 years of experience in forming and running high technology companies
that used applied superconductivity in its products.
Prior to Exelar, Roger was employed by Intermagnetics General Corporation, a magnetic resonance imaging company. He co-founded Phospho Energetics, a developer of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy systems for in vivo biochemistry research. In 1990, Phospho was acquired by Otsuka Pharmaceutical of Japan. That success was preceded by his founding of Oxford Instruments Inc, that was sold to the Oxford Instrument Group Plc. in 1983. Earlier in his career, Roger was a design engineer at the Rutherford Laboratory in England. He was also a visiting scientist during 1991 at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida.
Roger is a graduate of the Oxford Institute of Technology, U.K. He qualified as a European Engineer (Eur. Ing.), as certified by the European Federation of National Engineering Associations (FEANI), and is a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
DR. ROBERT PILLSBURY
Dr. Robert
Pillsbury is a leading authority in electromagnetics and
the design and analysis of magnet systems for applications in fusion,
maglev and plasma technologies. He has over 30 years of experience
developing advanced computational algorithms and programs for the
design and analysis of conventional and superconducting magnet systems.
Pillsbury presented or published over 50 technical reports and publications
in scholarly journals and conference proceedings.
Presently, Dr. Pillsbury is Treasurer and a Senior Consultant at Sherbrooke Consulting. Previously, he was Leader of the Electromagnetic and Structural Analysis Group of the Technology and Engineering Division of the MIT Plasma Fusion Center. The members of this group performed structural and electromagnetic analyses with applications in the areas of fusion, MHD, high energy physics accelerators and detectors, magnetic resonance imaging devices and magnetic levitation. Recent projects include: ITER, TPX, and ALCATOR CMOD tokamaks; design of detector magnets for CERN and SSC; maglev; and design and analysis of magnets for seawater propulsion and coal-fired MHD. He received his Ph. D. from the University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Robert Pillsbury Biography
