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Isadore Perlman
Isadore Perlman
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a new neutron activation analysis facility at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which became one of the top laboratories in the worIc! for determining the origin of ancient artifacts, ant!
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SECOND CAREER: DEVELOPMENT OF METHODS OF SEPARATING PLUTONIUM FROM URANIUM AND FISSION PRODUCTS Isaclore PerIman first met Glenn T Seaborg, one of the authors of this memoir, in the fall of 1933 when they were unclergracluate students at UCLA, en c!
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States, intensely aware of the innovations of the German scientists in nuclear chemistry and the danger of Nazi Germany, had pleaded with the U.S. government for support of a program to develop atomic weapons before Germany clicI.
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as deputy chief of the Plutonium Chemistry Section, contributes! in many ways to working out the chemical separation process.
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in Tennessee in a place that later became the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Meanwhile, the Du Pont company was building big production reactors at the Hanford Engineer Works in the state of Washington on the Columbia River, en c!
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to be a consultant to the Du Pont company, serving as a resource in Du Pont's postwar nuclear program, such as the operation of the Savannah River plant in South Carolina for procluction of plutonium.) PerIman helped Seaborg direct the newly established Nuclear Chemistry Division in the Racliation Laboratory (now the Ernest OrIanclo Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
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make the ciata less useful for nuclear structure studies. Other laboratories in the past had used magnetic spectrographs for measurements of alpha particle energies, but because of the trauma en c!
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procluce excellent separation between alpha groups if it were used as an alpha particle spectrograph. So he told a new graduate student of his (Asaro)
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the Danish Royal Academy. FOURTH CAREER: DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH PRECISION NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS FOR ARCHAEOMETRY In 1967 Periman became interested in a completely new fielcI, the determination of the origin of ancient pottery by elemental analysis of the pottery fabric.
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Asaro to share in the clevelopment of a high precision neutron activation analysis technique that wouic! be suitable for determining the origin of ancient pottery with a high degree of certainty.
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When this was all clone it was fount! that neutron activation analysis conic!
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inclepenclent methoclologies for using germanium detectors to determine the origin of ancient glassy and pottery67 by neutron activation analysis. One of the first archaeological projects tackler!
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to be a precursor to the beautiful classical product, was actually a local imitation of the Cypriot pottery. Besicles many studies on pottery, PerIman's group also macle studies of obsidian artifacts.
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their techniques to other rock types, most notably the twin colossal statues, commonly known as the Colossi of Memnon, on the Plain of Thebes across the Nile River from Luxor in Egypt. They colIaborated with Professor Robert Heizer and his staff and stuclents from the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Anthropology en c!
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not. The neutron activation analysis measurements inclicatec!
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There with Joseph Yellin he built a neutron activation analysis laboratory for ancient pottery, which soon became one of the top-ratec! facilities in the worIcI.
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clevelopec! a spectrometer capable of measuring iridium abundances at the level of 30 parts per trillion, 500 times faster than had previously been possible by neutron activation analysis without chemical separations.
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Refinement in methods of neutron activation analysis of ancient glass objects through the use of lithium drifted germanium diode counters. In Proceedings of the VIIth International Congress on Glass, Brussels, 1965.
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Palestinian Bichrome Ware. Leiden, Netherlands: E
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Radioactive iodine as an indicator of the metabolism of iodine.
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Decay properties of Am243 and possible rotational bands in the alpha spectra of odd-even nuclei.
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17. Hebrew University ofJerusalem.
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