High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dr. Alan Schriesheim, Ph.D. is The Director Emeritus and the retired CEO of Argonne National Laboratory, one of the U.S. Department of Energy`s largest research centers. In a January 2008 announcement issued by Penn State University upon the establishment of the Schriesheim Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, it was noted that "Schriesheim is an internationally acclaimed chemist and technology executive. With a career spanning 50 years in industry, academia, and government, Schriesheim was a pioneer in transforming large and highly complex research organizations to yield productive commercialized technology.