Edward Moses is an American

United States

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 physicist

Physicist

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 and is the current principal associate director for the National Ignition Facility

National Ignition Facility

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& Photon Science Directorate. He leads the California-based NIF, the largest experimental science facility in the US and the world’s most energetic laser, that hopes to demonstrate the first feasible example of usable nuclear fusion.