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 […]
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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 […]
Award Statement C&EN (Pages 3-4) Kratz received a diploma in chemistry in 1966 from the University of Mainz and completed his thesis at the Institute for Nuclear Chemistry in 1967. He received a Ph.D. degree summa cum laude in 1972 from Mainz. In his early career, Kratz worked on fast-chemical separation of fission products and performed a vast number of […]
Award Statement C&EN(Page 3) Florida State University chemistry and physics professor RAYMOND K. SHELINE has spent 40 years studying the subtle behavior of nuclei, focusing on the effects of nuclear deformations. Sheline and his colleagues have studied the unique spectroscopic properties of nuclei with octupole deformation—an accomplishment that more rigorously tests nuclear models than the simpler properties of quadrupole-deformed nuclei. […]