Jurisson, who is 55, says she has always been interested in math and science and that her interest in chemistry in particular emerged when she received a chemistry set as a child. She earned a B.S. degree in chemistry from the University of Delaware in 1978 and a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from the University of Cincinnati in 1982. “Regretfully, […]
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David J. Morrissey has made a career of studying exotic, rare, and short-lived nuclei and developing techniques to separate these nuclei from thousands of other nuclear reaction products. Morrissey is one of the most important early leaders who recognized the potential of the projectile fragmentation technique to produce and study rare isotopes, colleagues say. Morrissey, 57, received a B.S. in chemistry […]
Sobotka received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Michigan in 1977 and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1982. After a postdoctoral stint at UC Berkeley, he joined the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis in 1984 and has made it his professional home. On his departmental Web page, Lee G. […]
Moody graduated in 1977 with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and received a Ph.D. in nuclear chemistry from UC Berkeley in 1983. After conducting postdoctoral research in the Nuclear Science Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Moody moved to Germany, where he was appointed staff scientist at the Institute for Heavy Ion Research, […]
He holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from the University of Rochester (1988 and 1985, respectively) and an A.B. from Washington University, St. Louis (1983). De Souza, professor of chemistry at Indiana University, Bloomington, is a leading researcher in the field of nuclear reaction dynamics. De Souza’s research deals with nuclear reactions involving a single collision of two nuclei. The collision […]
Friedlander recalls, from visits to INC, Trautmann’s boundless energy. “He really seems to be the one who keeps all the wheels in the institute turning,” he says. “His nonstop work habits are legendary. Time and time again, I have seen experiments and projects on the verge of foundering until Trautmann came to the rescue and led them to success.” Trautmann’s […]
Yates, 59, received a B.S. degree in chemistry from the University of Missouri, Columbia, in 1968 and a Ph.D. in nuclear chemistry from Purdue University in 1973, where he studied with Patrick Daly. In the late 1970s, Yates began the experiments for which he is best known at the University of Kentucky’s Van de Graaff accelerator. Although the inelastic neutron-scattering […]
Award Statement C&EN (Pages 2-3) Fleming received a bachelor’s degree in 1961 and a master’s in physical organic chemistry in 1963 from the University of British Columbia (UBC). He received a Ph.D. in nuclear chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1967 where he studied nuclear structure and nuclear reactions in light nuclei. Fleming’s research was mainly carried out […]
Award Statement C&EN (pages 3-4) In 1971, Moretto returned to Berkeley permanently and focused on the study of nuclear reactions. He spent the 1970s inducing fission with high-energy particles to determine, he says, how the shell structure “slowly fades away” with increasing energy. This work led to influential papers on nuclear level densities with John R. Huizenga. In the late […]
Current position: Professor emeritus of chemistry, Washington State University Education: BA, chemistry, Lewis University; MS and PhD, inorganic chemistry, Florida State University What Nash’s colleagues say: “Ken has demonstrated the ability to assemble and lead multidisciplinary research teams and networks that stretch to a global scale to solve difficult problems in nuclear and radiochemistry. Further, his commitment to the advancement of separations and […]