Award Statement C&EN (Page 3) Gordon received a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Illinois in 1956, his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1960. Gordon took part in the production of element 102 and in the study of heavy-ion-induced fission and spallation reactions at Berkeley. Since then he has carried out research on the kinetic energy […]
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Award Statement C&EN (Page 6) A native of Twin Falls, Idaho, the award winner received his B.S. in chemistry from California Institute of Technology in 1948, his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1952. The first milestone in Rasmussen’s illustrious career was his Ph.D. thesis work in 1951 on alpha radioactivity in the rare-earth elements. In 1949 Dr. […]
Award Statement C&EN (Page 4) Born in Hulton, Ill., Huizenga earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and chemistry at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1944. He then joined the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, Tenn. After World War II, he earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1949. He held joint appointments […]
Award Statement C&EN (Page 8) Lawrence Elgin Glendenin was born in 1918 in Bay City, Michigan. In 1941, he graduated from the University of Chicago. In 1949, he received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Insitute of Technology (MIT). In 1945, Glendenin along with Jacob Marinsky and Charles Coryell isolated Promethium, the sixty-first element on the periodic table, while working at […]
Ghiorso graduated with a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1937. Because of the Great Depression, no steady jobs were available. So Ghiorso worked for several small companies, gaining a reputation for his radio communication skills and his designs of radiation detection devices. His experience attracted the attention of UC Berkeley’s Glenn T. Seaborg, who […]
Wikipedia Page Turkevich studied at Dartmouth College and obtained his bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1937. He completed his Ph.D. at Princeton University on the structure of small molecules in 1940. He investigated the separation of uranium isotopes by gaseous diffusion of uranium hexafluoride and the radiochemistry of reactor products, such as plutonium, that are generated by neutron capture in […]
Wikipedia Page Born in Manhattan on February 13, 1923, Wolf attained a B.A. from Columbia University in 1944, an M.A. from Columbia in 1948, and a Ph.D. from Columbia in 1952. Wolf was an American nuclear and organic chemist. Wolf was chairman of the Chemistry Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory, research professor in the Department of Psychiatry at New York […]