Richard Diamond (chemist)
Richard Martin Diamond (born January 7, 1924 in Los Angeles , † September 14, 2007 ) was an American physicist and chemist who deals with experimental nuclear physics and nuclear chemistry .
Life
Diamond graduated from UCLA with a Bachelor's degree both in physics and in chemistry in 1947 and was at the 1951 University of California, Berkeley , with Glenn T. Seaborg with the issue of actinides An ion exchange study of Hybridized 5f bonding in the doctorate . As a post-graduate student , he was an instructor in chemistry at Harvard University . In 1954 he became an assistant professor at Cornell University and in 1958 a member of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory . He stayed there for the remainder of his career, becoming a senior scientist at the laboratory and receiving emeritus status in 1991. He was scientifically active in the laboratory until his death.
He dealt with physical chemistry and nuclear chemistry, but is particularly known for investigations into the nuclear structure of atomic nuclei in high spin states. In order to observe the resulting cascades of gamma decays, he and Frank S. Stephens (also from the Lawrence Berkeley Lab) developed the High Energy Resolution Array (with 21 gamma-ray semiconductor detectors made of germanium) and later a spherical detector called Gammasphere , which was used from 1993 to 1997 was built on the 88-inch cyclotron at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab. The advanced version of the detector is at the Argonne National Laboratory .
In 1980 he received the Tom W. Bonner Prize for Nuclear Physics with Stephens and in 1993 he received the Glenn T. Seaborg Award for Nuclear Chemistry from the American Chemical Society. In 1991 he received the Humboldt Research Award . He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society , the American Chemical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science .
In 1966/67 he was a Guggenheim Fellow at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen , in 1976 a Fulbright Fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra and in 1966 a member of a US delegation of physicists in the Soviet Union. 1983 to 1986 (as co-organizer) and 1988 to 1990 he was at the tandem linear accelerator of the Holifield heavy ion accelerator of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory , 1983 and 1997 to 1990 at the Chalk River Nuclear Research Laboratories and 1983 at the Brookhaven National Laboratory .
From 1972 to 1974 he was a member of the external review committee for the physics department of the Oak Ridge Laboratory.
He was divorced from the neuroanatomist Marian Cleeves Diamond (1926-2017), a professor at Berkeley, and had four children.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life and career data American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Richard M. Diamond at academictree.org, accessed on January 29, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Diamond, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Diamond, Richard Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist and chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | los Angeles |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 14, 2007 |