Poster Highlights 2

Matthias Graf (pointing) elucidates his work on electron-phonon coupling in delta plutonium to an inquisitive listener.

“Wonder if there’s anything in this actinide stuff for me,” perhaps muses a pensive Carson Hobart, as he supervises the table at which attendees perused a sample copy of the new (third) issue of The Chemistry of the Actinide and Transactinide Elements. Son of conference cochair David Hobart of Los Alamos, Carson’s contributions as a volunteer to staff support were highly commended by all.

Underlining the international scope of the conference, discussants review a poster by actinide scientists from the Israeli Nuclear Research Center and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (at left). To their right, two session attendees scan information describing neptunium behavior in citrate media.

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