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Depleted Uranium

Dr. Jeff C Bryan
University Wisconsin-Lacrosse
 


Location:

Klemmer's Banquet Center
10401 W. Oklahoma Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53227

DIRECTIONS

6:00 PM - Social Hour
7:00 PM - Dinner
8:00 PM - Meeting and Program

Family Style Dinner

(Prices include tax and gratuity)
  • Choice of pot roast of beef and portabella ravioli marsala.
  • Crisp garden salad
  • mashed potatoes and gravy
  • choice of vegetable
  • rolls and butter
  • coffee, tea, or milk
  • dessert du jour

  • Members/Guests – $22.00
  • Post Doctoral Fellow – $15.00
  • Chemistry Students – $10.00
If you would prefer, you are invited to attend the meeting and program only (at no cost). There is no need to RSVP.

For dinner reservations, please call
262-364-8099
or
e-mail: kurbain@fcingredients.com (subject="ACS Dinner Reservation")
by
March 8
All are welcome.

ABSTRACT

It has been implicated as a possible cause to a variety of ailments for veterans of the Gulf Wars. This presentation will explain what it is and why Gulf War vets were exposed to it. The talk will explore the nuclear and material science of depleted uranium as well as its main military application.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:

Jeff C. Bryan was born in Minnesota and raised in California, and believes that his odd childhood mixture of Jell-O salad and reticence in a free and open society have caused his various personality quirks. He earned an A.B. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley with emphasis on organic chemistry and Scandinavian studies. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Washington studying inorganic chemistry under the supervision of Jim Mayer. His thesis presented a new chemical reaction, the oxidative addition of multiple bonds to low-valent tungsten. He then spent a year of postdoctoral work with Warren Roper at Auckland University investigating iridium-carbon multiple bonds. He spent five years at Los Alamos National Laboratory, initially as a postdoctoral fellow, then as a staff member. Under the supervision of Al Sattleberger, he initiated a modestly successful research program synthesizing new compounds of technetium. He then spent eight years at Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a crystallographer in Bruce Moyer?s chemical separations group. The major group project during that time was development of a process to separate 137Cs+ from defense wastes. He has spent the past eight years as a chemistry faculty member at the University of Wisconsin?La Crosse. There his scholarship has focused on making nuclear chemistry and radiation physics more accessible to students with limited science and math backgrounds. As part of this effort, he has authored a textbook titled Introduction to Nuclear Science, and coauthored a lab manual titled Experiments in Nuclear Science. He is an engaging and entertaining speaker. He has given over 40 invited presentations at a variety of conferences and meetings including Gordon Conferences and National ACS meetings, and currently specializes in speaking to various groups on nuclear science.



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