John Holzrichter

John F. Holzrichter is an American physicist, formerly the President of the Hertz Foundation, and currently a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Education Holzrichter received a BS with honors in applied mathematics and engineering physics from the University of Wisconsin in 1964. He then received an MS in applied mathematics as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Heidelberg in 1965 and PhD in physics from Stanford University in 1971. Between 1969 and 1971, he held a Hertz Foundation Fellowship. Holzrichter served as the deputy director of ICF and fusion lasers, and then director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's institutional research and development program, He remains at LLNL as senior scientist. He played a major role in the design and construction of the Shiva, Novette, Nova, and NIF Laser systems.

As an educator, Holzrichter has been a research professor at the University of California at Davis. He also holds ten patents. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Between 1999 and 2009, he served as the president of the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, Holzrichter has authored book chapters and papers in journals including Physical Review Letters, Nature and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.