Richard L. Hahn
Senior Chemist
Chemistry
Department
Building 555
Brookhaven National Laboratory
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000
Phone: (631) 344-4337
FAX: (631) 344-5815
e-mail: hahn1@bnl.gov
Solar Neutrino
Research
GALLEX
and SNO solar neutrino experiments; R&D on LENS solar neutrino
project; neutrino physics; heavy‑ion nuclear reaction mechanisms;
transuranium elements, nuclear and chemical properties; nuclear fission;
discovery and identification of new isotopes and new elements; chemical
properties and structures of ions in aqueous solutions
Education and professional positions
B.S. Brooklyn College, 1955; M.A. Columbia University, 1956; Ph.D.
Columbia University, 1960
Brookhaven National Laboratory: Guest Jr. Research Associate,
9/58-3/60; Postdoctoral Research Associate, 3/60-5/62. Oak Ridge National
Laboratory: Senior Staff Scientist, 6/62‑2/87; Section Head for Nuclear
and Transuranium-Element Chemistry, Chemistry Division, 1974-1979; Director,
Transuranium Research Laboratory, 1974-1984; Brookhaven National
Laboratory: Research Collaborator, 9/86-1/87; Chemist, 2/87-10/87;
Chemist, with tenure, 11/87-9/94; Senior Chemist, 10/94-present
Visiting Scientist, Institut de Physique Nucléaire, Orsay, France,
1972-1973; Visiting Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, 1974-1980,
1984-1987; Visiting Scientist, Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung,
Darmstadt, W. Germany, 1979; Visiting Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory, 1984-1987; Visiting Scientist, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran
Sasso, Assergi, Italy, 1987-present; Visiting Scientist, Sudbury Neutrino
Observatory (SNO), Sudbury, Canada, 1996-present; Member of the
International GALLEX Collaboration, 1986-1998; Member of the
Canadian-American-British SNO Collaboration, 1996-present; Member of the
International LENS Collaboration, 2000-present
HONORs and Awards
American Chemical Society Award In Nuclear Chemistry, 2000
Brookhaven National Laboratory Research & Development Award, 1997
American Nuclear Society, Radiation Industry Award, 1977 (for
research on charged-particle activation analysis)
Scholar in Residence, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX, 1983
Professional Activities
DOE Transplutonium Program Committee, 1975-1980
American Chemical Society: Symposium Organizer and Chairman:
Transuranium Elements, 1978; Neutrino Sciences, 1991; Neutrino Science,
1994; Neutrino Oscillations, 1999
American Chemical Society, Division of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology:
Secretary, 1978-1980; Vice Chairman, 1981; Chairman, 1982; Alternate
Councilor, 1991-1993; Executive Committee, 1996-present
Member of Selection Committee for ACS Nuclear Chemistry Summer School,
1982-1984
Director's Review Committee, Isotopes and Nuclear Chemistry Division, Los
Alamos National Laboratory, 1984-1986
Committee on Nuclear and Radiochemistry of the National Research Council,
National Academy of Sciences: Vice-Chairman, 1987-1990; Chairman,
1990-1993.
Participant in National Research Council Workshops on: Opportunities and
Challenges in Research with Transplutonium Elements, 1983; Training
Requirements for Chemists in Nuclear Medicine, Nuclear Industry and Related
Areas, 1988
Co-organizer of and Participant in National Research Council Workshop on
Availability of Isotopically Enriched Materials, Washington, DC,
February 20-21, 1992
Faculty Member, ACS Nuclear Chemistry Summer School at BNL, 1992
Expert Witness before U.S. Congress Government Operations Committee that
investigated DOE’s Isotope Production Program, August 1992 and December 1993
American Physical Society, Division of Nuclear Physics, Nuclear Science
Resources Committee, 1994
Peer Reviewer of Nuclear Science Programs for DOE and NSF
NSF Site Reviewer for the Borexino Solar Neutrino Project at the
Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, Italy, 1999-present
Canadian - U.S. Scientific and Technical Review Committee of Sudbury
Neutrino Observatory (SNO-STRC), October 1994-February 1996
Director's Review Committee, Nuclear Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory, 2000-present
Program Advisory Committee for 88" Cyclotron, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, 1999-2000; Chair of PAC, 2001
Patents
Fast-Closing Valve System for Cyclotrons
R. L. Hahn, R. L. Stone, J. R. Tarrant and L. D. Hunt, U.S. Patent No.
3,675,072, January 1971
Method for Exploring and Discovering Uranium Deposits Within a Petrofluid
System
I. L. Thomas and R. L. Hahn, August 1978
C. V. Revised,
22 April, 2005
Last Modified: January 31, 2008
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