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 studied at the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor 's degree in chemistry in 1936 and was there in 1940 in Physiology PhD ( he was then a pioneer in the use of radioactive iodine and phosphorus as a tracer ). From 1942 he was in the Manhattan Project in Chicago and at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory as well as 1944/45, in Hanford, where he played an important role in the development of plutonium production. 1945 to 1974 he was a professor at Berkeley, where he also Head of Nuclear Chemistry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ( LBNL, then Lawrence Radiation Laboratory ) was and associate director of the laboratory, and then from 1974 to 1988 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (in addition to chemistry and archeology ). From 1988 he studied again at LBNL.
He was regarded as a leading international expert on alpha - decay systematics and was with Glenn T. Seaborg in 1949 one of the first isotope tables out. Most recently he worked on the determination of the iridium content of rocks by neutron activation analysis (important for the confirmation of the meteorite impact hypothesis by Luis Alvarez, a colleague at Berkeley ). Earlier, he had worked on the method of neutron activation analysis for age determination in archeology ( ceramics ) and built a corresponding laboratory at the Hebrew University on.
He presented in 1947 with Louis B. Werner for the first time in Curium ponderable quantities dar.
In 1960 he received the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award and the 1964 Glenn T. Seaborg Award for Nuclear Chemistry. In 1955 he was Guggenheim Fellow. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1963 ), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences