1995 Seaborg Award: Joseph B. Natowitz

Award Statement C&EN (Page 4)

Natowitz received a Ph.D. degree in nuclear chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh in 1965.

Natowitz and his collaborators have made a number of seminal contributions to the understanding of heavy-ioninduced nuclear reactions. They have spearheaded the study of light particle emission to provide important experimental tests of the predicted thermodynamic properties of nuclei at the limits of their stability. Natowitz also has contributed in a major way to the current understanding of the role of angular momentum in nuclear fusion reactions and delineation of the properties of strongly damped nonfusing collisions.