Ernest M. Henley is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Washington. Dr. Henley has served as the Dean for the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington, and the Director and Associate Director of the Institute for Nuclear Theory, at the University of Washington. The focus of his work has been with the symmetries, the connection of quark-gluons to nucleons-mesons, and the changes that occur to hadrons when placed in a nuclear medium. Dr. Henley was the President for the American Physical Society. Dr. Henley has served with the U.S. Liaison Committee for the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, has chaired the committee, Section 13: Physics, and was a member of the NAS Class I Membership Committee. Dr. Henley received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley.