Award Statement C&EN Born in Chicago, Steinberg received an S.B. degree from the University of Chicago in 1941. Subsequently, he was employed for two years as an analytical chemist with the War Department at the Elwood Ordnance Plant near Joliet, IL. In 1943 he joined the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago. At the same time he continued graduate […]
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Award Statement C&EN (Page 3) Viola graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a Ph.D. in 1961. In his studies, Viola has elucidated the mechanisms that characterize collisions between complex nuclei and the nuclear fission process. For instance, his research contributed to the discovery of new reactions, called strongly damped collisions, that dominate the interaction between very heavy nuclei. […]
Award Statement C&EN (Page 3) Choppin received a B.S. from Loyola University and Ph.D. from the University of Texas, Austin. Choppin has contributed much to the understanding of the nuclear fission process, identification of nuclear properties, and to the production of new heavy element isotopes. But it is in elucidating the nuclear chemistry and radiochemistry of the 4f- and 5f-transition […]
Award Statement C&EN (page 3) Cerny received a B.S. in chemical engineering at the University of Mississippi in 1957, and graduated with a Ph.D. in nuclear chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1961. Cerny recognized the potential importance of multinucleon transfer reactions for nuclear spectroscopic purposes and the investigation of high isospin multiplets. He developed a novel particle […]
Award Statement C&EN (Pages 8-9) She attended Iowa State University, Ames, where she obtained a B.S. in chemistry in 1948 and her Ph.D. in physical (nuclear) chemistry in 1951. Hoffman is best known for her pioneer work on the existence, fissionability, and decay properties of a number of transuranium isotopes. She was codiscoverer of 256Cf, 256mEs, 258Md, 259Fm and has […]
Award Statement C&EN (Page 11) He studied at the University of Manitoba receiving a B.Sc.(Hons) in 1940, a M.Sc. in 1941, and was awarded an honorary D.Sc. in 1982. He received a Ph.D. in 1943 from McGill University. His contributions to the field of nuclear chemistry span nearly 40 years beginning in the early 1940’s when he worked in the […]
Award Statement C&EN (Page 10) Vandenbosch received his Ph.D. in 1957 at the University of California, Berkeley; his research was carried out under the direction of Glenn T. Seaborg. He has made many fundamental contributions to the field of nuclear fission. For in stance, he developed a theory based on the deformation of the fission fragments near fission, which ex […]
Award Statement C&EN (Page 12) Poskanzer received his Ph.D. in 1957 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He and his colleagues performed the first differential recoil study, and, later, the first counter study of nuclear fragmentation. In the area of more relativistic heavy-ion reactions, he obtained the first results on central collisions, which led to the nuclear fireball and coalescence models […]
Award Statement C&EN (Page 2) Davis was born on Oct. 14, 1914, in Washington, D.C. He obtained both his B.S. (1937) and M.S. (1940) in chemistry from the University of Maryland, and his Ph.D. (1942) in physical chemistry from Yale University. Davis is best known for his pioneering work with solar neutrinos, particularly in measuring their flux from the sun […]
Award Statement C&EN (Page 5) Born in Japan, Kuroda is an American citizen. He received his Ph.D. at Tokyo University in 1944. Two major scientific discoveries overshadow Kuroda’s impresssive work: First was the prediction in 1956 that self-sustaining spontaneous uranium chain reactions could have occurred in nature more than 2 billion years ago. Although this was almost totally ignored at […]