Thomas S. Elleman Papers 1958-2005

Thomas S. Elleman (1931-2010) attended Denison University in Granville, Ohio, graduating in 1953 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry. He then accepted an Ames Laboratory Research Fellowship through Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa where he received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry in 1957. In his first professional position, at Battelle Memorial Institute, a contract research laboratory in Columbus, Ohio, he worked on nuclear fuel development, radioisotopes applications, and radiation effects. He departed Battelle in 1964 as Associate Head of the Chemical Physics Department to become Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.

Thomas S. Elleman spent twenty-three years at North Carolina State University, serving as Associate Professor, Nuclear Engineering, Department Head, and Associate Dean for Engineering in the College of Engineering. At North Carolina State University, he was elected a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society, won outstanding teacher awards, and became one of 450 Health Physicists certified by the American Board of Health Physics. He engaged in research, teaching of undergraduate and graduate courses, and aided in the origination of radiology safety courses in nuclear engineering. He left North Carolina State University early in his career for one year to become Head of the Advanced Fuels Development department at Gulf General Atomics in La Jolla, California and later for six years to become Vice President of Corporate Nuclear Safety and Research at Carolina Power and Light Company. In this position he engaged in independent evaluations of the safety of the company's three nuclear plants, supervised the corporate research programs, and served as the corporate spokesman on matters related to nuclear safety.

Thomas S. Elleman returned to North Carolina State University in 1985 as Associate Dean. For over the next seventeen years, he worked as a part-time Administrative Judge for the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, serving on the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board panel to evaluate safety related concerns raised by the public related to nuclear plants. He also served twelve years on the Raleigh Greenway Commission and the Parks and Greenways Advisory Committee that were instrumental in the development of the greenway trail system in Raleigh.

The Thomas S. Elleman Papers contains correspondence, lecture notes, research articles, journals, publications, annual reports, slides, and transparencies related to nuclear engineering. Materials are dated 1958 to 2005.

This collection is arranged in chronological order.

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[Identification of item], Thomas S. Elleman Papers, MC 00396, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC

Gift of Thomas S. Elleman, 2010 (Accession nos. 2010.0213 and 2010.0221)

Finding aid created by Judy Allen Dodson, 2010 October; updated by Vivian Phinizy 2013 July