Jerry A. Nolen, Jr.

Professional experience

• 2006-present: Argonne Distinguished Fellow
• 2003-present: Technical Director of the Exotic Beams Project, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1992-present: Director of ATLAS and Senior Scientist, Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL
• 1992-present: Adjunct Professor of Physics, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI
• 1982-1992: Associate Director, NSCL - Research Facilities, Michigan State Univ.
• 1977: Fellow, Max Planck Institute, Heidelberg, Germany
• 1976-1992: Professor of Physics, Michigan State University
• 1974: Visiting Associate Professor, Princeton University
• 1970-1976: Associate Professor of Physics, Michigan State University
• 1968-1970: Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Maryland
• 1966-1968: Postdoctoral Appointment, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1965-1966: Instructor, Princeton University

Education

• Ph.D., Physics, Princeton University, 1965
• B.S., Engineering Physics, Lehigh University, 1961

Honors

• 1984: Fellow, American Physical Society
• 1961-1962: Woodrow Wilson Fellow
• Lehigh University : B.S. with Highest Honors
• 1961-1962: President, Lehigh Chapter, Tau Beta Pi
• Pi Mu Epsilon
• Phi Beta Kappa
• Sigma Xi

Selected publications

• J.A. Nolen, “Plans for an Advanced Exotic Beam facility in the U.S.,” Nuclear Physics A787 (2007) 84c–93c
• J.A. Nolen, “Overview of the US. Rare Isotope Accelerator Proposal,” Nucl. Phys. A734, 661-668 (2004).
• C.-L. Jiang, B.B. Back, J.A. Nolen, K.-E. Rehm, G. Savard, “The influence of secondary reactions at the wedge of a magnetic separator at RIA,” 6th International Conference on Radioactive Nuclear Beams (RNB6); Argonne, IL; Sep 22-26, 2003
• Claude B. Reed, Jerry A. Nolen, James R. Specht, Vince J. Novick, Robert C. Haglund, and Perry Plotkin, “A 20-kW Beam-On-Target Test of a High-Power Liquid Lithium Target for RIA,” 6th International Conference on Radioactive Nuclear Beams (RNB6), Argonne, IL, September 22-26, 2003; Nucl. Phys. A746 (2004) 161c-165c.
• J.A. Nolen, “Prospects for high-power radioactive beam facilities worldwide,” Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc. 88 (2003) 26-32.
• J. A. Nolen, C. B. Reed, A. Hassanein, V. J. Novick, P. Plotkin, J. R. Specht, “Development of windowless liquid lithium targets for fragmentation and fission of 400-kW uranium beams,” Nucl. Instr. Meth. B204 (2003) 293-297.