Charles D. Scott

Director, Bioprocessing Research & Development Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (retired)

Education

• B.S. 1951, Chemical Engineering, University of Missouri
• M.S. 1961, Chemical Engineering, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• Ph.D. 1966, Chemical Engineering, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville

After two years as an artillery officer in the U.S. Army, Scott spent his entire 41-year engineering career at the U.S. Department of Energy facilities in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Scott mainly worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, however, he also worked at the Y-12 nuclear weapons production site. His primary activities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory were in the areas of chemical and biochemical process development as related to energy. Scott retired from Oak Ridge National Laboratory as director of the Bioprocessing Research and Development Center. He also held positions as a part-time professor of engineering science and as an adjunct professor of chemical engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, teaching in both Perkins Hall and Dougherty Hall.

For his work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Scott received the U.S. Department of Energy’s E.O. Lawrence Memorial Award and the American Chemical Society’s Pearlman Award. He has also been elected to the National Academy of Engineering and is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Chemical Society, and the honorary chemistry society Alpha Chi Sigma.

Additionally, Scott has held membership with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, and the honor society of science and engineering, Sigma Xi.