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Bruce Barraclough
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Olivier Gasnault
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David Lawrence
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Sylvestre Maurice
Mike Miller
Kurt Moore
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Richard D. Belian received his Masters Degree in physics from the University of New Mexico in the spring of 1967. Following two summers as a Los Alamos GRA in J.G., he joined the full time staff at LANL in 1967 where he has been ever since. Initially, Belian worked on a new instrument for the Vela satellites, the XAVIER or cosmic X-ray detector. This instrument was responsible for the discovery of short, intense, high energy astrophysical events. Since then Richard has worked as on a large number of energetic particle detectors for earth orbit. In 1982, he became the PI for the Advanced Particle Outboard or APO detectors, which is the follow-through energetic particle detector for the Advanced RADEC II (AR II) program. In addition, Richard has hardware responsibilities for the Imaging Electron Spectrometer or IES instruments for NASA and ESA/NASA International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) program. In all, Richard is or has been PI on 45 instruments now in space, and 5 more awaiting launch and co-I on several others. Recently, Richard has been associated with the highly successful NASA Lunar Prospector project, where he was responsible for one of the three LANL detectors, the APS, on that lunar satellite. Also, Richard is PI on a new programmatic instrument the PEM (Proton Electron Monitor) that will be flown as part of new nuclear detection instrumentation for geosynchronous orbit. Although Richard's major efforts have been in the areas of conceiving, designing, building, calibrating and testing flight instruments, he has been fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to do basic research, both in the area of energetic particles in the earth's magnetosphere and in X-ray astronomy during the early days of that area of high energy astrophysics - first author on 12, coauthor on more than 100 refereed papers.