Darleane c hoffman biography examples
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1998 Oral History Interview with Dr. Darleane C. Hoffman
In 1944 Darleane Christian arrived at Iowa State to major in art. Here she describes what inspired her to change her major from art to chemistry...
DH: Things to learn about. Even though inom started out in applied art and found inom didn�t like applied art. I had no talent for it. The chemistry course�I had to take a standard Home Ec freshman course, which included chemistry.
TZB: Right, did only the women have to take that or did men and women take that tillsammans, that Home Ec-chemistry course?
DH: No, it was just for Home Ec majors and so inom had to take it. I also had to take history. I tested out of English so I was in a creative writing course instead. That was a marvelous course, but I sweated blood over that course because I�m not a creative writer in the sense of thinking of things from whole cloth, but inom learned a lot. inom would get
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The Transuranium People: The Inside Story. By Darleane C. Hoffman, Albert Ghiorso, and Glenn T. Seaborg. Imperial College Press: London, England; distributed by World Scientific Publishing Co.: Singapore; River Edge, NJ; London, England, 2000. Illustrations. xciii + 467 pp., 15.5 ´ 22.2 cm., hardcover $75.00. ISBN 1-86094-087-0.
George B. Kauffman and Laurie M. Kauffman, California State University, Fresno, georgek@csufresno.edu
The Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (formerly the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory), with which the authors of this fascinating book have long been affiliated during what has been described as a “golden age” of discovery, is the site of the discovery of more transuranium elements than any other laboratory in the world. The book’s title is well chosen, and the authors — undisputed nuclear pioneers — are the ideal persons to have written it. The volume is a felicitous and balanced blend of personal reminiscences, revelations, opinions, anecdotes, nuclear sci
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White House honors chemists Hoffman, Somorjai with Enrico Fermi Award
Nuclear chemist Darleane Hoffman and surface chemist Gabor Somorjai received the Enrico Fermi Award from President Biden and Vice-President Harris for their pioneering work.
The Biden Administration today (Tuesday, March 28) named Darleane C. Hoffman and Gabor A. Somorjai as recipients of the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award, one of the oldest and most prestigious science and technology honors bestowed by the U.S. government.
“Dr. Hoffman and Dr. Somorjai’s work to open the frontiers of radiochemistry and surface chemistry helped change what was possible, and advanced efforts to tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges,” said Arati Prabhakar, assistant to the President and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. “They are world-class innovators and an inspiration to future generations of scientists, and I congratulate each of them for a lifetime of achievement.”
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