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Franklin Asbury Long
Franklin Asbury Long
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He was department chair, vice-presiclent, en c! trustee at Cornell, on the Presiclent's Science Advisory Committee for Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, en cl Johnson, assistant director of the U.S.
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graduate work in physical chemistry with Axel Olson at the University of California, Berkeley, where he gainecl his initial experience stuclying the mechanisms of organic reactions en c! the use of radioactive isotopes, an area he also pursuccl with WilIarcl Libby.
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He served, initially uncler George Kistiakowsky, as a research supervisor for the Explosive Research Laboratory of the National Defense Research Committee in Pittsburgh from 1942 until 1945. He returnee!
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when he began to bring the language, concepts, en cl experimental techniques of solution-phase physical chemistry to bear on problems of aqueous organic reactions. He was one of the pioneers who showocl organic chemists that they hacl to think carefully about nonicleality, activity coefficients, en cl ion pairing if they were interested!
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In a first for mass spectrometry, they usecl this chemistry in 1953 to confirm the molecular structure of ketone climer, a highly publicized controversy of the time. Long's pioneering physical chemistry studies of gaseous ions incluclecl appearance potentials, heats of formation, en c!
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As Frank began his sentence with "This entropy must be negative," his secretary told him that both George Kistiakowsky and ferry Wiesner were on the phone to discuss a New York Times article on antiballistic missiles. In the ensuing conversation I felt as if I were transported to another world in the company of people who were running the planet.
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Ballistics Research Laboratory, Department of the Army, Aberdeen, McI., 1953-59, member, Science Advisory Board, Department of the Air Force, ~ 956-60, member, Ballistic Missiles Advisory Committee, Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1957-60, chair, Chemistry Advisory Committee, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, 1959-63, en cl member of the Presiclent's Science Advisory Committee uncler Presiclents Eisenhower, Kennedy, en cl Johnson.
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that resulted in the edited volume Weapons in Space (1986~. From 1983 to 1988 he served as chair of the American Academy of Arts and Science's Committee on International Security Studies.
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President RonaTc! Reagan, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, 1964-89, en cl co-chair of the Joint U.S.-Korea Advisory Committee for Science of the National Academy of Sciences, ~972-76.
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Long was unusually effective en cl cleclicatecl in public service, especially in his Tong-term efforts for arms control among the woricl's nuclear powers. His outstanding leaclership en cl advisory board service greatly enhanced the research productivity at Cornell, Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Presiclent's Science Advisory Committee, other fecleral research agencies, en cl third worIcl countries.
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Mass spectra and appearance potentials of ketene monomer and dimer: Relation to structure of dimer.
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Wolfsberg. Ionization efficiency curves and the statistical theory of mass spectra.
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FRANKLIN ASBURY LONG 245 1976 Arms control from the perspective of the nineteen-seventies. In Arms, Defense Policy and Arms Control, eds.
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