Tell me about your research. We’re interested in understanding how covalent or ionic the bonds are between actinides and ligands, and how that changes along the actinide series. It’s one of the most fundamental questions in actinide science. It’s important for a lot of reasons: Covalency is invoked in explaining actinide fate and transport in the environment — how they […]
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Education: BS, Chemistry, and MS, Chemistry, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; PhD, Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis VanBrocklin on a memorable project: “I have two. The first is the development of radiolabeled fluoroestradiol analogs for breast cancer diagnostic imaging, a project that launched my career in radiopharmaceutical chemistry. The second, more recent, project is preparing radiolabeled agents to detect reservoirs […]
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 […]
