In 1927 Libby entered the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his BS in 1931, and his PhD in 1933, writing his doctoral thesis on the “Radioactivity of ordinary elements, especially samarium and neodymium: method of detection” under the supervision of Wendell Mitchell Latimer. Independently of the work of George de Hevesy and Max Pahl, he discovered that the […]
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Taube completed his undergraduate and master’s degrees at the University of Saskatchewan, and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Taube’s group carried out studies on photochemical reactions in solution and were among the earliest users of isotopes in the elucidation of reaction mechanisms. Of particular importance was his use of oxygen-18 to establish that oxidation-reduction reactions could occur […]
Current position: Regents professor of chemistry, Bright Chair in Nuclear Science, and director of the Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University Education: BS, chemistry and physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; PhD, nuclear chemistry, Indiana University Yennello’s scientific role model: “Vic Viola, previous winner of the Glenn Seaborg award and my thesis adviser, who demonstrated every day that you could do excellent science and treat people […]
Education: Nitsche earned a B.Sc. in 1976 and a Ph.D. in 1980, both from the Free University of Berlin. What his colleagues say: Nitsche “was a big-picture kind of guy,” says Richard Wilson, a chemist at Argonne National Laboratory and one of Nitsche’s former graduate students. “He had broadly scoping research programs. He did nuclear chemistry, radiochemistry, actinide chemistry, and a […]
At MIT, a class in nuclear and radiochemistry taught by Charles D. Coryell, a scientist on the Manhattan Project, sparked Loveland’s interest in the field. Coryell was “an inspirational figure,” he says. His undergraduate research adviser, nuclear chemist Glen E. Gordon, also proved an important influence. Advising Loveland on where to pursue his graduate studies, Gordon pointed to the University […]
If there’s one area of chemistry that requires heavy instrumental artillery, it’s nuclear chemistry. To probe an atom’s guts, scientists need accelerators to split or fuse nuclei and blast them into new energy states. And a whole science of sophisticated detector systems arose from the need to examine the complex trails of gamma rays spit out by rapidly spinning and […]
Award Statement C&EN (Pages 4-5) Fowler, 59, received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of South Florida, Tampa, in 1964, and a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1967 from the University of Colorado, Boulder. It is rare for the work of one scientist to have important repercussions in several fields of research, but that is the case with Brookhaven […]
Award Statement C&EN (Pages 4-5) He received his B.S. degree in chemistry from Kansas State University, Manhattan, in 1960 and his Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1964. He has spent his career peering into atomic nuclei with clever and innovative techniques. The results of these techniques have not only been important in determining […]
Award Statement C&EN (Pages 10 & 12) On a summer day in 1945, 10-year-old RICHARD L. HAHN was riding the subway in New York City while a nearby commuter read the New York Times. It was a day Hahn will never forget. “I saw the front page of the paper, and the headline announced the dropping of the first atomic […]