Los Alamos National Laboratory Actinide Research Quarterly:; Issue 1, May 2013
Kelly L. Parker (Designer/Illustrator) and Leslie Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2013. Presumed first edition/first printing thus. Wraps. 29 pages, plus 3 pages of the covers. Includes: illustrations, diagrams. Endnotes. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Actinide Research Quarterly is a publication of the Stockpile Manufacturing and Support Directorate. The directors of the Seaborg Institute for Transactinium Science serve as the magazine's scientific advisors. The Actinide Research Quarterly reports on research in actinide science in areas such as process chemistry, metallurgy, surface and separation sciences, atomic and molecular sciences, actinide ceramics and nuclear fuels, characterization, spectroscopy, analysis, and manufacturing technologies. This issue includes a lengthy article/appreciation of Bob Penneman (1919-2012) who was a noted Actinide Chemist and Technical Leader. Robert Penneman was an American chemist. Penneman was born in 1919 in Springfield, Illinois. He received a B.S. from Millikan University and an M.S. from the University of Illinois, before he joined the Manhattan Project in 1942 at the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago. His first job was to help prepare uranium metal for the world’s first nuclear reactor, which was being built under the direction of Enrico Fermi. He then worked directly under future Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner, making critical measurements of radiation damage on materials ranging widely from ion exchange resins for plutonium separation to carbon moderator blocks in the Hanford production reactors. After World War II, Bob obtained his Ph.D. and joined Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1947. There he spent the remainder of his career, developing and managing what some considered one of the world’s premier transuranium chemistry groups. He published well over a hundred peer-reviewed open literature papers and countless technical reports. His last peer-reviewed paper, on the solid state structure of PuO2+x, was published in 2005 in the Journal of Solid State Chemistry when he was 87. He could entertain for hours with wonderful stories about his career, especially from the 1940s and 1950s. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: Bob Penneman, Manhattan Project, Mars Curiosity Rover, Space Exploration, f-Element Oxide, Product-Based Certification, Seebeck Effect, Binding Energy, Stockpile Certification, Science-Based Certification
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