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.