Isadore Perlman
Isadore Perlman (born April 12, 1915 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin , † August 3, 1991 in Los Alamitos , California ) was an American chemist ( nuclear chemistry , nuclear physics ).
Perlman graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1936 and received his doctorate in physiology in 1940 (he was then a pioneer in the use of radioactive iodine and phosphorus as tracers ). From 1942 he was in the Manhattan Project in Chicago and at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and in 1944/45 in Hanford, where he played an important role in the development of plutonium production. From 1945 to 1974 he was a professor at Berkeley, where he was also head of nuclear chemistry at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL, then Lawrence Radiation Laboratory) and associate director of the laboratory, and then from 1974 to 1988 at the Hebrew Universityin Jerusalem (in addition to chemistry, archeology). From 1988 he did research again at the LBNL.
He was regarded as a leading international expert on alpha decay systematics and, together with Glenn T. Seaborg, published one of the first isotope tables in 1949. Most recently, he worked on determining the iridium content of rocks using neutron activation analysis (important for confirming the meteorite impact hypothesis by Luis Alvarez , a colleague at Berkeley). He had already worked on the method of neutron activation analysis for age determination in archeology (ceramics) and set up a laboratory at the Hebrew University.
In 1947, together with Louis B. Werner, he presented curium in weighable quantities for the first time .
In 1960 he received the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Prize and in 1964 the Glenn T. Seaborg Award for Nuclear Chemistry . In 1955 he was a Guggenheim Fellow . He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1963) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1969).
Fonts
- With C. Michael Lederer, Jack M. Hollander: Table of Isotopes. 6th edition. John Wiley, New York 1967.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Perlman, Isadore |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milwaukee |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 3, 1991 |
| Place of death | Los Alamitos |