Darleane C. Hoffman

Darleane Christian Hoffman ( born November 8, 1926 in Terril, Iowa) is an American chemist who deals with nuclear chemistry.

Life

Hoffman studied at Iowa State College with a bachelor 's degree in 1948 and his doctorate in physical chemistry in 1951. During this time she was an assistant in the Ames Laboratory of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). After that, she was 1951/52, at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and from 1952 to 1971 chemist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. There it was in 1981 head of the isotopes and Nuclear Chemistry Division. In 1984 she became a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and head of the Heavy Element Nuclear & Radiochemistry Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She was also 1991 Founding Director of the Seaborg Institute for Transactinium Science. In 1996 she retired.

She is an expert in Chemistry of Transuranium Elements and transactinides and a leading international expert on Spontaneous fission. She was one of those who the discovery of the element seaborgium (atomic number 106 ) confirmed and studied these and other Tranactinoide ( as rutherfordium, Hahnium ) with a co-developed by its technology on 88- inch cyclotron at Berkeley.

They also studied the spread of radioactive nuclides in the environment and was in the Advisory Commission of the National Academy of Sciences of radioactive waste.

She is married to the physicist Marvin M. Hoffman since 1951 and has a son and a daughter.

Honors and Memberships

She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society and the Norwegian Academy of Sciences. She is an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern ( 2001).

Writings

• Darleane C. Hoffman, Albert Ghiorso, Glenn T. Seaborg: The Transuranium People: The Inside Story, Imperial College Press, 2000,