Expertise: Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry Specialty: Short-lived radioisotope production to the creation of fluorine-18 and carbon-11 labeling chemistry strategies for new radiotracer preparations and applications, development of positron-labeled estrogens, progestin’s, androgens for tumor imaging Professional Interests: Developing radiopharmaceutical probes for PET and SPECT imaging applications including tracers for blood flow measurement, receptor-targeted tracers for prostate, pancreatic and breast cancer, and neurological imaging […]
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Current position: laboratory fellow and program director, Los Alamos National Laboratory Education: B.S., chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle; Ph.D., inorganic chemistry, Indiana University Clark on what he is most proud of: “I helped identify the chemical behavior of plutonium in contaminated soils and concretes at the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site. Good scientific understanding in the public interest helped bring clarity and focus […]
Education: BS, mathematics, California State University, Bakersfield; PhD, physical chemistry, University of Washington Tsang on who inspired her to become a scientist: “My husband and longtime collaborator, William G. Lynch, has been my constant supporter in pursuing academic research. He and my PhD advisor saw my potential to become a successful experimentalist. Throughout my career, while raising two daughters, he […]
Fields served on the Manhattan Project during World War II and went on to become a leading scientist with Argonne National Laboratory His main interests for the past 20 years have been the nuclear and chemical properties of the heavy elements, an area in which he has published about 70 papers and been codiscoverer of two of these new elements. […]
George Boyd (1912-2004) was an American physicist. He was a research associate in the physical chemistry section at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the Manhattan Project. Later, Boyd served as chief assistant director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In the 1960s, Boyd joined the faculty of the University of Georgia. He taught there until he retired at the age […]
C&EN Obituary Wolfgang, who was born in Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany, came to the US in 1945 and received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1951. He was a pioneer in the field of “hot chemistry,” and specialized in the mechanism of nuclear reactions. He also developed several chemical accelerators-instruments used to break atomic bonds in molecules so that their […]
Stripped of his citizenship and prohibited from university study because he was Jewish, Friedlander left his native Germany in 1936 and immigrated to the U.S. He received a Ph.D. degree in nuclear chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1942. He worked as an instructor at the University of Idaho for one year before he was recruited to work […]
Wahl obtained a B.S. in Radiochemistry from Iowa State University in 1939. As a Ph.D. student, Wahl was part of the team—including Glenn Seaborg, Joseph W. Kennedy, and Edwin McMillan—that isolated and identified the element plutonium in 1941 (and later neptunium-238 & -239). It immediately became clear to the scientists working on the element that the isotope of plutonium with […]
Thompson received his B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1934. Thompson began working for Standard Oil in California after his graduation, where he continued his friendship with Glenn Seaborg, whom he met his freshman year of high school (classmates). When Seaborg moved to the Chicago Met Lab in 1942, he asked Thompson to join him. While in […]