Charles V. Shank

Charles Vernon Shank
Born	(1943-07-12) July 12, 1943 (age 80) Mount Holly, New Jersey
Citizenship	American
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley
Known for	Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Awards	R. W. Wood Prize (1981) Edward Longstreth Medal (1982) Morris E. Leeds Award (1983) David Sarnoff Award (1989) Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award (1990) Edgerton Award (1990) George E. Pake Prize (1996) Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science (1997) Charles Hard Townes Award (2002) Enrico Fermi Award (2014)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Bell Laboratories Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory University of California, Berkeley
Thesis	Nonlinear Wave Interaction Spectroscopy  (1969)
Doctoral advisor	Steven E. Schwarz

Charles Vernon (Chuck) Shank (born July 12, 1943) is an American physicist, best known as the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 1989 to 2004.