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My Scientific Career

• Art Poskanzer

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Harvard '53
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LASL 1953
Purified one gram of 241Am Several curies 60 keV
radiation Beautiful colors
1953
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Columbia '54
Jack Miller
Died 1976 at age 54
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MIT '57

• Nuclear Chem. Gordon Conf. '53
• Postdoc of Linus Pauling
• 3 vol. book Manhattan Project work on fission
  products
• Students discovered promethium
• Renaissance Man

• Other students
• John Alexander 1/2 yr. before
• Mort Kaplan 2 1/2 yr. after

1970
Glenn Seaborg and Charles Coryell
Died in 1971 at age 59
Thesis in Phys. Chem. "The Solvent Extraction of
Inorganic Complexes"
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First Paper 1960
A Summary of TTA Extraction Coefficients
Heino Nitsche still uses it
TTA thenoyltrifluoroacetone
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Brookhaven 1957-66

• Spallation of Al and U
• Cross sections
• Differential studies
• Exotic Nuclei
• Beta-delayed proton emitters
• Beta-delayed neutron emitters

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1969
Gerhart Friedlander
first mentor
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8He
10,000 decays Half-life to 1
1965
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Berkeley 1966-
1973
Earl Hyde
second mentor
Died 1997 at age 77
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Bevatron

• Proton - nucleus reactions
• Light fragment yields

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11Li
1966
98
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LAMPF 1968 - 74
Thin Target Area
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A
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Nuclear Chemistry Gordon Conference

• First attended in 1954
• Poskanzer Rule
• Chair in 1970
• Included physicists

1957
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Orsay 1970-71

• CERN Proton Synchrotron
• On-line isotope separator
• Direct mass measurements

1973
Robert Klapisch
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NAS Panel 1976
Friedlander Panel on the Future of Nuclear Science
1976
Dirk Walecka Art
George Bertsch Bob Stockstad Gery Garvey
Harry Gove Herman Feshbach Gerhart
Louis Rosen John Schiffer
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American Chemical Society

• Div. Nucl. Chem. Tech.
• Chair 1977
• Nucl. Chem. Award 1980

1980
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Scientific American
Exotic Light Nuclei
with Joe Cerny
1978
Jef Poskanzer
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Nuclides

• Discovered
• 227Fr
• 228Fr
• 145Cs
• 146Cs
• 98Sr
• 99Rb
• 41Ti
• 37Ca
• 51K
• 50K

• Proved not to exist
• 16B
• 13Be
• 12Li
• 10Li
• 5H

• First observed decay
• 145Cs ß
• 146Cs ß
• 98Sr ß
• 99Rb ß
• 41Ti p
• 37Ca p
• 33Ar p
• 32Na ß
• 13O p
• 8He n

49K 48K 33Ar 39P 34Al 32Mg 31Mg 33Na 32Na 27Ne
13O 17C 17B 15B 14B 14Be 12Be 11Li

• First mass measurement
• 32Na
• 31Na
• 30Na
• 29Na
• 28Na
• 27Na
• 11Li

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Bevalac 1975 - 93

• Users' Association 1973
• Seminars 1975
• Scientific Proposal 1975
• Summer Study 1978
• Scientific Director 1978 - 79

• GSI-LBL Collaboration
• July 1974
• Central Collisions
• Fireball model
• Coalescence

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Plastic Ball 1980 - 90

• Collective Flow
• Squeeze-out

Others Per Kristansson Michael Maier Hubertus
Riedesel Rainer Schicker Rudi Schmidt Helmuth
Spieler Friedeman Weik
1983
Herbert Loehner
Hans-Ake Gustafsson Bernhard Ludewigt Hans
Gutbrod me
Tim Renner Tony Warwick
Karl-Heinz Kampert Hans-Georg Ritter Mohan Doss
Howard Wieman Burhard Kolb
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CERN
ISOLDE 1979 - 80 WA80 1986 - 87 NA49 1995 - 96
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WA80 1980 - 90

• CERN HI Program
• PS190 in 1980
• RFQ
• Mid-rapidity
• calorimeters

1987
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(NA35) NA49 1991 -
1996
Peter Seyboth and Reinhart Stock

• Electronics funded 1992
• Deputy Spokesman 1992 - 98
• Directed and Elliptic Flow

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RNC Group 1990 - 95

• Formed 5 Feb 90

1990
James Symons John Harris
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STAR

• Planning starts 1989
• LOI 1990
• First coll. meet. 1991
• Deputy Spokesman 1991-92
• Approved 1991
• Funded 1993
• First paper 2001
• Elliptic Flow

Art Poskanzer
Raimond Snellings Sergei Voloshin
2000
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QM95
Logo Harold Poskanzer
Lucille Poskanzer Companion's program
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Discovery

• The feeling of discovery
• Great fun
• Changed fields often

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Restaurant Guide 1980 -

• Contents Lucille
• Cover Harold
• Production Art

1985