RESUME
Oliver K. Manuel
Professor of Nuclear
Chemistry
University of Missouri-Rolla
http://www.umr.edu/~om
EDUCATION
1964 - NSF Post-doctoral Fellow,
Physics, University of California, Berkeley
1964
- Ph.D., Nuclear Chemistry, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Arkansas
(some research done in Prof. John
Reynolds' laboratory at UC-Berkeley)
1959 - B.S., Chemistry, Kansas State
College, Pittsburg, Kansas
ACADEMIC
2000-present - Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri-Rolla
1999-2000 - Interim Chairman of Chemistry, UM-Rolla
1.
- Chairman of Chemistry, UM-Rolla
1982-1983
- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, India
1979-1980 - U.S.
Geological Survey, Denver, CO
1973-2000 - Professor of Chemistry, UM-Rolla
1967-1973 - Associate Professor of Chemistry, UM-Rolla
1964-1967 - Assistant Professor of Chemistry, UM-Rolla
HONORS
2002 – Plenary Lecture, Third
International Conference on Beyond Standard
Model Physics - BEYOND 2002 in Oulu, FINLAND
1999 – Co-chaired ACS Symposium (with Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg) - "The Origin of
Elements in the Solar System:
Implications of Post-1957 Observations"
1983 - Fulbright Award, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,
Bombay, India
1980 - Plenary Lecture, 8th
National Symposium on Isotope Geochemistry, Ver-
nadsky Institute Geochemistry & Analytical
Chemistry, Moscow, USSR
1979 - Special Recognition as
Principal Investigator in NASA's Lunar Program
1968 - Outstanding Research award,
UM-Rolla Alumni Association
1964
– National Science Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship
PUBLICATIONS
Author of more than 100 scientific papers, including book reviews, chapters in books, and research papers published in peer-reviewed literature and presented at science conferences in the United States, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, the USSR and Wales.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
None of these accomplishments
in life would have been possible without the kindness of Fate in providing the
author with a considerate and supportive wife and children, great teachers,
students, friends, and a truly outstanding secretary. The names of a few of these are given near
the end of this resume.
RESEARCH
INTERESTS
• The use of high-sensitivity mass spectrometry to study the origin of the solar system; the distribution of isotopes in meteorites, planets, the moon and the sun; rare nuclear processes, including double-beta decay; the terrestrial distribution of long-lived fission products and chalcogen elements.
• Supervised research for 25 M.S. and Ph.D. candidates and numerous undergraduates. Research supported by the Atomic Energy Commission, Department of Energy, The Foundation for Chemical Research, NASA, and NSF.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS (partial list)
Alpha Chi Sigma honorary chemical society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Astronomical Society, the American Chemical Society, the American Geophysical Union, the Council for Chemical Research, the Fulbright Society, the Geochemical Society of Japan, the Meteoritical Society, the Missouri Academy of Science, Nature, and the Sigma Xi honorary research society.
See partial list on web page at http://www.umr.edu/~om
Chapters in
Books
O. Manuel, "Origin of
Elements in the Solar System", in The
Origin of the Elements in the Solar System: Implications of Post 1957
Observations, O. K. Manuel, editor, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New
York, NY, pp. 589-643 (2000).
O. Manuel, "Isotope
Ratios: The Key to Elemental Abundance and Nuclear Reactions in the Sun",
in The Origin of the Elements in the
Solar System: Implications of Post 1957 Observations, O. K. Manuel, editor,
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, NY, pp. 285-293 (2000).
O. K. Manuel and K. Y. Chiou,
“Geochemical Measurements of Double-Beta Decay, in Chapter III of Neutrino Mass and Related Topics, S.
Kato and T. Ohshima, Editors, World Scientific, Singapore, pp. 178-182 (1988).
O. K. Manuel and D. D. Sabu,
“Isotopic Anomalies in Meteorites,” in Chapter I of Essays in Nuclear, Geo- and Cosmochemistry, M. W. Rowe, editor,
Burgess International Group, Inc., Edina, Minnesota, pp. 1-42 (1988).
O. K. Manuel,
"Geochemical Measurements of Double Beta Decay," in Chapter III of Nuclear Beta Decays and Neutrino, T.
Kotani, H. Ejiri & E. Takasugi, editors, World Scientific Publishing Co.,
Singapore, pp. 71-80 (1986).
O. K. Manuel,
"Meteorites," in Encyclopedia
of Science and Technology, 5th edition, Sybil P. Parker, editor,
McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, pp. 440-449 (1982).
O. K. Manuel, “Noble gases in
the Fayetteville meteorite,” Chapter 19, Papers
in Memory of Craig Merrihue, Physics Dept, University of
California-Berkeley (1971).
O. K. Manuel, A review of the
book by David Arnett, Supernovae and
Nucleosynthesis: An Investigation of the History of Matter, from the Big Bang
to the Present, in American Scientist
85, 478-479 (1997).
International Conferences
O. Manuel and A. Katragada, “The Sun’s origin
and composition: Implications from meteorite studies”, presented at the 2002 Conference on Asteroids, Comets and
Meteors, Berlin, GERMANY, July 28 – August 2, 2002.
O. Manuel, “The standard solar model
versus experimental observations”, Plenary lecture presented at the Third International Conference on Beyond
Standard Model Physics - BEYOND2002 in Oulu, FINLAND, June 2-8, 2002.
O. Manuel, “Compositional variations in
asteroids: A record of the early solar system”, paper presented at Asteroids 2001, from Piazzi to the third
millennium, Santa Flavia (near Palermo), ITALY, June 11-15, 2001.
O. Manuel, “Solar abundance of the
elements”, paper presented at the
SOHO-ACE Workshop 2001 on Solar and Galactic Composition, Bern,
SWITZERLAND, March 6-9, 2001.
O. Manuel, “Isotopic ratios
in Jupiter confirm intrasolar diffusion”,
paper presented at the 61st
Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Dublin, IRELAND, July 27-31,
1998.
O. Manuel, J. T. Lee, J. M. D.
MacElroy, Bin Li and W. K. Brown, “Origin of our elements and evolution of the
solar system”, paper presented at the International
Conference on Isotopes in the Solar System, Physical Research Laboratory,
Ahmedabad, INDIA, November 11-14, 1997.
O. K. Manuel, J. T. Lee, J. M. D.
MacElroy, B. Li and W. K. Brown, “Origin of the elements and the solar system”,
abstract 25.03 of paper presented at
the
189th Meeting of the American
Astronomical Society, Toronto, CANADA, January 13, 1997.
W. K. Brown, J. T. Lee, Bin Li, J. M. D.
MacElroy and O. K. Manuel, “Origin of the elements and evolution of planetary
systems”, paper presented at the Washington
University International Conference on Pre-solar Grains, St. Louis, MO,
October 31, 1996.
O. K. Manuel, “Geochemical measurements
of double-beta decay”, paper presented at the 14th Europhysics Conference, Bratislava, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, October
24, 1990.
O. K. Manuel and K. Y. Chiou,
“Geochemical measurements of double-beta decay”, paper presented at the INS International Symposium on Neutrino Mass
& Related Topics, Tokyo, JAPAN, March 16-18, 1988.
W. J. Lin and O. K. Manuel, “Radio- and
fissio-genic xenon in Navajo, New Mexico well gas”, paper presented at the JAPAN-U.S. Seminar on Terrestrial Rare Gases,
Yellowstone National Park, WY, September 2-7, 1986.
O. K. Manuel, “Geochemical measurements
of bb-decay”, paper presented at the International Symposium on Beta Decays and Neutrinos, Osaka, JAPAN,
June 11-13, 1986.
O. K. Manuel, “Intra-solar diffusion”,
paper presented at the 12th International
Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics, Sendai, JAPAN, June 3-8,
1986.
O. K. Manuel, “Additional evidence of
local element synthesis: Chemical and isotopic heterogeneities in the Sun and
its planetary system”, paper presented at the International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Symposium
on Nuclear Cosmochemistry and Meteorites, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 1984.
S. Ramadurai and O. K. Manuel, “The
origin of Neon-E”, paper presented at the International
Conference on Isotopic Ratios in the Solar System, Paris, FRANCE, June
1984.
O. K. Manuel, “The need for isotopic data
on refractory elements in the solar wind”, paper given at the Workshop on Past and Present Solar
Radiation: The Record in Meteoritic and Lunar Regolith Material, Mainz,
GERMANY, September 1983.
O. K. Manuel and Golden Hwaung, “Solar
abundance of the elements”, paper
presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of
the Meteoritical Society, Mainz, GERMANY, September 1983.
J. D. Obradovich, M. Tatsumoto, O. K.
Manuel, H. Mehnert, M. Domenick and T. Wildman, “K-Ar and K-Ca dating of
sylvite from the late Permian Salado Formation, New Mexico. Implications regarding stability of evaporite
minerals”, paper given at The Fifth International
Conference on Geochronology, Cosmochronology and Isotope Geology, Nikko,
JAPAN, June 27-July 2, 1982.
G. Hwaung and O. K. Manuel, “On the
occurrence of terrestrial-type xenon in meteoritic troilite”, paper given at The Fifth International Conference on
Geochronology, Cosmochronology and Isotope Geology, Nikko, JAPAN, June
27-July 2, 1982.
O. K. Manuel, “Isotopic and elemental
heterogeneities in meteorites: Evidence of local element synthesis”, Plenary
lecture at the 8th National Symposium on
Isotope Geochemistry, Moscow, USSR, November 1980.
L. L. Oliver, R. V. Ballad, J. F.
Richardson and O. K. Manuel, “Correlated anomalies of tellurium and xenon in
Allende”, paper given at the 42nd Annual
Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Heidelberg, GERMANY, September 1979.
R. V. Ballad, L. L. Oliver, R. G. Downing
and O. K. Manuel, “Isotopically anomalous tellurium accompanies isotopic
anomalous components of heavy noble gases in Allende”, Fourth International Conference on Geochronology, Cosmochronology and
Isotope Geology, Aspen, CO, August 1978.
R. V. Ballad, L. L. Oliver, R. G. Downing
and O. K. Manuel, “Nucleogenetic heterogeneities in the chemical and isotopic
abundances of our elements”, 41st Annual
Meeting, Meteoritical Society, Sudbury, CANADA, August 1978.
O. K. Manuel, “Xenology: A review on
isotopic anomalies in element no. 54”, 175th
American Chemical Society National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, March 1978 (Co-chair and organizer of the Nuclear
Applications Award Symposium: Nuclear and Cosmological Chemistry).
O. K. Manuel, “Noble gas anomalies:
Elemental and isotopic evidence of a local supernova”, paper presented at Protostars and Planets, Tucson, AZ,
January 1978.
O. K. Manuel, “Comparison of terrestrial
and meteoritic noble gases”, U.S./Japan
joint seminar on Rare Gas Abundance and Isotopic Constraints on the Origin and
Evolution of the Earth's Atmosphere, Hakone National Park, JAPAN, June
1977.
O. K. Manuel, “Key issues in xenology:
The main issues and where they are leading us today”, Workshop on Isotopic Abundance Anomalies, Montgomery, WALES,
August 1976 (Chairman of session on
xenology).
PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS
(by decade)
Fifth Decade
Publications (2001-present)
O. Manuel and E. Miller,
“Additional evidence for repulsive n-n interactions”, in preparation (2002).
O. Manuel, “The standard
solar model versus experimental observations”, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Beyond Standard
Model Physics - BEYOND 2002, in preparation (2002).
O. Manuel and A. Katragada,
“The Sun’s origin and composition: Implications from meteorite studies”, Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on
Asteroids, Comets and Meteors, in press (2002).
O. Manuel, C.
Bolon and A Katragada, “Why the model of a hydrogen-filled Sun is obsolete”, Meteoritics and Planet. Sci. 37, A92 (2002).
O. Manuel, Cynthia Bolon and
Max Zhong, “Nuclear systematics: III. The source of solar luminosity”, J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem. 252, 3-7 (2002).
O. Manuel, C. Bolon and Prashanth Jangam,
“Nuclear systematics: II. The cradle of the nuclides”, J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem. 251,
417-422 (2002).
O. Manuel and C. Bolon, “Nuclear systematics: I.
Solar abundance of the elements”, J.
Radioanal. Nucl. Chem. 251,
381-385 (2002).
O. Manuel, C. Bolon, A. Katragada and M. Insall,
“Attraction and repulsion of nucleons: Sources of stellar energy”, J. Fusion Energy 19, 93-98 (2001).
H. Busemann, W. R. Binns, C. Chiappini, G.
Gloecker, P. Hoppe, D. Kirilova, R. A. Leske, O. K. Manuel, R. A. Mewaldt, E.
Möbius, R. Weiler, R. C. Wiens, R. F. Wimmer-Schweingruber and N. E. Yanasak, “Applications of abundance data and
requirements for cosmochemical modeling” in Proceedings of the 2001 SOHO-ACE
Workshop, CP598, Solar and Galactic
Composition (R. F Wimmer-Schweingruber, editor) 357-379 (2001).
O. Manuel, “The
origin of the solar system with an iron-rich sun”, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 33, number 4, page 1526 (2001).
C. Bolon
[Manuel’s student], “Repulsion and attraction between nucleons: Sources of
energy for an iron-rich Sun and for first generation stars”, Bulletin of the American Astronomical
Society 33, number 4, page 1526
(2001).
O. Manuel, C.
Bolon, A. Katragada & P. Jangam, "The sun's origin, composition and
source of energy", in Lunar and Planetary Science XXIX, Abstract 1041,
available as 1041-pdf from Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX (CD-ROM,
2001)
Fifth Decade
Presentations (2001-present)
O. Manuel and A. Katragada, “The Sun’s
origin and composition: Implications from meteorite studies”, paper presented
at the 2002 Conference on Asteroids,
Comets and Meteors, Berlin, GERMANY, July 28 – August 2, 2002.
O. Manuel, “The standard
solar model versus experimental observations”, paper presented at the Third International Conference on Beyond
Standard Model Physics - BEYOND2002 in Oulu, FINLAND, June 2-8, 2002.
O. Manuel, “The
composition of the Sun and its planetary disk from stable isotope mass
spectrometry”, abstract #175
presented at the 35th Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting of the
American Chemical Society in Fairfax, VA, USA, May 28-30, 2002.
O. Manuel, C.
Bolon and A. Katragada, “The Sun’s origin and source of energy”, presented at
the 32nd Mid-America Astrophysics
Conference, Linda Hall Library, Kansas City, MO, April 12-13, 2002.
O. Manuel, “Why
the Model of a Hydrogen-filled Sun is Obsolete”, Foundation for Chemical
Research luncheon press briefing for AAS presentations, The Willard Inter-
Continental Hotel, Washington, DC, January 7, 2002.
O. Manuel, “The
origin of the solar system with an iron-rich sun”, abstract 146.01 of paper presented at the 199th Meeting of the American Astronomical
Society, Washington, DC, January 7-10, 2002.
C. Bolon, [Manuel’s student] “Repulsion and
attraction between nucleons: Sources of energy for an iron-rich Sun and for
first generation stars”, abstract 146.02D
of paper presented at the 199th Meeting
of the American Astronomical Society, Washington, DC, January 7-10, 2002.
O. Manuel,
“Compositional variations in asteroids: A record of the early solar system”
presented at Asteroids 2001, from Piazzi
to the third millennium, June 11-15, 2001, Santa Flavia (near Palermo),
Italy. Abstract is published in Asteroids 2001 - from Piazzi to the third
millennium, pp. 52-53 (Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, Palermo,
Italy).
O. Manuel, C. Bolon, M. Zhong
and P. Jangam, “The Sun’s origin, composition and source of energy”, Abstract 1041 presented at the 32nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference,
Houston, TX, March 12-16, 2001.
O. Manuel, “Solar
abundance of the elements” presented at the
SOHO-ACE Workshop 2001 on Solar and Galactic Composition, March 6-9, 2001,
Bern, Switzerland. Abstract is published
in Book of Abstracts for the SOHO-ACE Workshop 2001 on Solar and Galactic
Composition, pp. 21-22 (Physikalisches Institut of the Universität Bern,
Bern, Switzerland).
O. Manuel, “The standard
solar model versus experimental observations”, Abstract 56.09, presented at the 197th
Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, San Diego, CA January 7-11,
2001.
Fourth Decade
Publications (1991-2000)
O. Manuel, “The
standard solar model versus
experimental observations”, Bulletin of
the American Astronomical Society 32,
number 4, page 1498 (2000).
O. Manuel, “Solar
abundance of the elements”, Meteoritics
& Planet. Sci. 35, A101-A102
(2000).
O. Manuel, "Conceptional
problems with remote element synthesis," in Isotopes in Earth & Planetary Sciences (Prof. K. Gopalan
Festscrift volume, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore) Y. J. B. Rao, A. Kumar and T. V. Sivaraman, editors, Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Earth Planet. Sci.)
109, 195-203 (2000).
O. Manuel,
"Isotope Ratios: The Key to Elemental Abundances and Nuclear Reactions in
the Sun", in The Origins of the
Elements in the Solar System: Implications of Post 1957 Observations, O. K.
Manuel, Editor, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, NY, pp. 285-293
(2000).
O. Manuel, "Origin of
Elements in the Solar System", in The
Origins of the Elements in the Solar System: Implications of Post 1957
Observations, O. K. Manuel, Editor, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New
York, NY, pp. 589-643 (2000).
O. Manuel, "Origin of
the solar system and its chemical elements", in Lunar & Planetary Science XXIX,
Abstract #1974, (CD-ROM) Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX (1998).
O. Manuel, "Isotopic
ratios in Jupiter confirm intrasolar diffusion", Meteoritics & Planetary Science 33, A97 (1998).
O. K. Manuel, J. T. Lee, D.
E. Ragland, J. M. D. MacElroy, Bin Li and Wilbur Brown, "Origin of the
Solar System and its elements", Journal
of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 238, nos. 1-2, 213-225 (1998).
O. K. Manuel, D. Ragland, K.
Windler, J. Zirbel, L. Johannes, and A. Nolte,
“Strange isotope ratios in Jupiter”, Bulletin
American Astronomical Society 30,
852-853 (1998).
O. Manuel, K. Windler, A. Nolte, L. Johannes, J.
Zirbel and D. Ragland, "Strange xenon in Jupiter", Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear
Chemistry 238, nos. 1-2, 119-121
(1998).
J. T. Lee, B. Li and O. K. Manuel, "On the
signature of local element synthesis",
Comments on Astrophysics 18, no. 6, 335-345 (1997).
O. K. Manuel, J.
T. Lee, J. M. D. MacElroy, Bin Li and Wilbur Brown, "Origin of elements
and evolution of planetary systems", Meteoritics
and Planetary Science, submitted February 1, 1997.
J. T. Lee, B. Li
and O. K. Manuel, "Xenon isotope record of nucleosynthesis and the early
solar system:, Chinese Science Bulletin,
vol. 42, issue 9, 752-756 (1997).
D. E. Ragland and O. K. Manuel,
"Heterogeneous accretion of the Sun and the terrestial planets", Bulletin Am. Astron. Soc. 29, 1254 (1997).
O. K. Manuel, J.
T. Lee, J. M. D. MacElroy, Bin Li and Wilbur Brown, "Origin of elements
and evolution of planetary systems", International
Conference on Isotopes in the Solar System (eds. J. N. Goswami, S.
Sahijpal, P. Chakrabarty), pp. 15-16 (1997).
W. K. Brown, J.
T. Lee, Bin Li, J. M. D. MacElroy, and O. K. Manuel, “Origin of the elements
and evolution of planetary systems”, paper excluded from AIP Conference
Proceedings 402, Astrophysical
Implications of the Laboratory Study of Presolar Materials, T. J.
Bernatowicz and Ernst Zinner, editors, American Institute of Physics,
Woodbury, NY, 750 pp. (1997).
O. Manuel, J. T. Lee, J. M.
D. MacElroy, B. Li, P. K. Kuroda, and W. K. Brown, “Origin of the elements and
the solar system”, Bulletin Am. Astron.
Soc. 28, 1306 (1997).
J. T. Lee, B. Li and O. K. Manuel,
"Terrestial type xenon in sulfides of the Allende meteorite", Geochemical
Journal 30, 17-30 (1996).
J. T. Lee, B. Li
and O. K. Manuel, "Xenon Isotope Record of Nucleosynthesis and the Early
Solar System", Chinese Science
Bulletin, vol. 41 issue 19,
1778-1782 (1996) [In Chinese].
J. T. Lee and O. K. Manuel,
"On the isotopic composition of primordial xenon in meteoritic troilite
and the origin of the chemical elements", Proceedings of the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XXVII, 738a - 738b (1996).
J. T. Lee and O. K. Manuel,
"Primordial xenon in Allende sulfides", Meteoritics 30, 534-535
(1995).
B. Li, J. T. Lee and O. K. Manuel,
"Anomalous 131Xe in barites", Earth and Planetary Science
Letters 123, 71-79 (1994).
B. Li, and O. K.
Manuel, "A noble gas technique for the identification of mantle and
crustal materials and its application to the Kuroko deposits", Geochemical Journal 28, 47-69 (1994).
J. T. Lee, O. K. Manuel and R. I. Thorpe,
"Ratio of double beta-decay rates of 128Te/130Te",
Nucl. Phys. A529, 29-38 (1991).
O. K. Manuel,
"Geochemical measurements of double-beta decay", Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics 17, S221-S229 (1991).
Fourth Decade
Presentations (1991-2000)
O. Manuel, “Solar abundance of the
elements”, presented at the 63rd Annual
Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Chicago, IL, USA, August 28 -
September 1, 2000.
O. Manuel, “Chemical and
isotopic irregularities in the solar system”, Abstract Nucl. 198 of paper presented at the 218th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Symposium on
The Origin of Elements in the Solar System: Implications of Post-1957
Observations, New Orleans, LA, August 22-26, 1999.
O. Manuel, “On the origin of
excess 15N in the solar wind”, Abstract Nucl. 172 of paper presented at the 218th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Symposium
on The Origin of Elements in the Solar System: Implications of Post-1957 Observations,
New Orleans, LA, August 22-26, 1999.
A.
Nolte and C. Lietz [Manuel’s students], “Abundances of hydrogen
and helium
isotopes in Jupiter”, Abstract Nucl. 025 of paper presented at the 218th Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Symposium on The
Origin of Elements in the Solar System: Implications of Post-1957 Observations,
New Orleans, LA, August 22-26, 1999.
K. Windler [Manuel’s
student], “Strange xenon isotope ratios in Jupiter”, Abstract Nucl. 021 of paper presented at the 218th Meeting of the American Chemical
Society, Symposium on The Origin of Elements in the Solar System: Implications
of Post-1957 Observations, New Orleans, LA, August 22-26, 1999.
O. Manuel, “Proton capture on
14N generates excess 15N in the solar wind”, Abstract 60 of paper presented at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the Missouri Academy
of Science, Cape Girardeau, MO, April 16-17, 1999.
O. Manuel and K. Windler,
“Jupiter isotope data confirms local element synthesis”, abstract Nucl. 035 of paper presented at the 217th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Anaheim,
CA, March 21 - 25, 1999.
O. Manuel, “Isotopic ratios in Jupiter confirm intrasolar
diffusion”, 61st Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Dublin,
IRELAND, July 27-31, 1998.
O. K. Manuel, D. Ragland, K.
Windler, J. Zirbel, L. Johannes, and A. Nolte,
“Strange isotope ratios in Jupiter”, abstract 29.01 of paper presented at the
192nd Nation-al Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, San
Diego, CA, USA, June 7-11, 1998.
O. K. Manuel and D. E.
Ragland, “Heterogeneous accretion of the Sun and the terrestrial planets”,
paper presented at the Annual Meeting of
the Missouri Academy of Science, St. Joseph, MO, April 17-18, 1998. [Trans.
Mo. Acad. Sci. 32, 126 (1998)].
O. K. Manuel, “The isotope
record of local element synthesis and formation of the Solar System”, abstract Nucl.
033 of paper presented at the 215th
National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Dallas, TX, USA, March
29 - April 2, 1998.
D. E. Ragland and O. K.
Manuel, “The isotope record of diffusive fractionation of magnesium and noble
gases in the solar wind and in solar flares”, abstract Nucl. 029 of paper presented at the 215th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Dallas,
TX, USA, March 29 - April 2, 1998.
O. Manuel, “Origin of the
solar system and its chemical elements”, abstract 1974 of paper presented at the 29th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX, USA, March
16-20, 1998.
D. E. Ragland and O. K.
Manuel, “Heterogeneous accretion of the Sun and the terrestrial planets,
abstract 27.02 of paper presented at
the 191st National Meeting of
the American Astronomical Society, Washington, DC, USA, January 6-10, 1998.
O. Manuel, “Messages from the
heavens: Information from meteorites”, a paper presented at the Rolla International Rotary Club, Rolla,
MO, USA, December 26, 1997.
O. Manuel, J. T. Lee, J. M. D. MacElroy,
Bin Li and W. K. Brown, “Origin of our elements and evolution of the solar
system”, paper presented at the International
Conference on Isotopes in the Solar System, Physical Research Laboratory,
Ahmedabad, INDIA, November 11-14, 1997.
O. K. Manuel and D. E. Ragland,
“Diffusive mass fractionation effects across the isotopes of noble gases and
magnesium in the solar wind and in solar flares”, abstract 281 of paper presented at the 32nd
Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Tan-Tar-A
Resort, Osage Beach, MO, October 29 - November 1, 1997.
O. Manuel, J. T. Lee, J. M. D. MacElroy,
B. Li, P. K. Kuroda, and W. K. Brown, “Origin of the elements and the solar
system”, abstract 25.03 of paper
presented at the 189th Annual
Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Toronto, CANADA, January
12-16, 1997
W. K. Brown, J. T. Lee, Bin Li, J. M. D.
MacElroy and O. K. Manuel, “Origin of the elements and evolution of planetary
systems”, paper presented at the Conference on Astrophysical Implications of the Laboratory Study of
Presolar Materials, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA, October 31 –
November 2, 1996.
J. T. Lee and O. K. Manuel,
“On the isotopic composition of primordial xenon in meteoritic troilite and the
origin of the chemical elements”, paper presented at the 27th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX, USA,
March 18-22, 1996.
J. T. Lee and O. K. Manuel, “Primordial xenon in Allende sulfides”, paper presented at the 58th Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, September 11-15, 1995.
J. T. Lee and O. K. Manuel, “Xenon in iron sulfide from the Allende meteorite”, paper presented at the 210th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA, August 21, 1995.
J. T. Lee and O. K. Manuel,
“Terrestrial-type xenon in sulfides of the Allende meteorite”, paper presented
at the Annual Meeting of the Missouri
Academy of Science, Maryville, MO, USA, April 22, 1995.
B. Li and O. K. Manuel, “The
noble gas geochemistry of the Kuroko deposits”, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Missouri Academy of
Science, Cape Girardeau, MO, April 30, 1994.
B.
Li, J. T. Lee and O. K. Manuel, “Anomalous 131Xe in
terrestrial barites”, paper
presented at the Annual Meeting
of the Missouri Academy of Science, Cape Girardeau, MO, April 30, 1994.
Bin Li and O. K. Manuel,
“Noble gas geochemistry of the Kurodo deposits”, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Missouri Academy of
Science, Kansas City, MO, April 24, 1993.
Bin Li, J. T. Lee and O. K.
Manuel, “Anomalous 131Xe in barites from neutron-induced reaction on
130Ba”, paper presented at the Annual
Meeting of the Missouri Academy of Science, Kansas City, MO, April 24,
1993.
Bin Li and O. K. Manuel,
“Noble gas isotopic composition of the Kuroku ores and their bearings on the
origin of the Kuroku deposits”, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Missouri Academy of Science, Fulton, MO,
April 19-20, 1991.
Bin Li, O. K. Manuel and
Ouyang Ziyuan, “The chemistry and origin of tektites”, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Missouri Academy of
Science, Fulton, MO, April 19-20, 1991.
Third Decade
Publications (1981-1990)
S. Muangnoicharoen, K. Y.
Chiou and O. K. Manuel, "Determination of selenium and tellurium in air by
atomic-absorption spectrometry"' Talanta
35, 679-683 (1988).
W. J. Lin, I. K. Manuel, G.
L. Cumming, D. Krstic and R. I. Thorpe, “Geochemically measured half-lives of
Se-82 and Te-130", Nucl. Phys. A 481, 477-483 (1988).
K. Y. Chiou and O. K. Manuel,
“Chalcogen elements in snow: Relation to emission source", Environ.
Sci. Technol. 22, 453-456
(1988).
K. Y. Chiou and O. K. Manuel,
“Tests for one model of the solar system's origin”, Meteoritics 23, 263-264
(1988).
K. Y. Chiou and O. K. Manuel,
Xenon decay products of extinct radionuclides in the Navajo, New Mexico well
gas", Geochem. J. 21, 197-207 (1987).
O. K. Manuel and D. D. Sabu,
"Elemental and isotopic heterogeneities of rare gases in the solar system: Reply to a comment by Kuroda
and Sheng", Geochem. J. 21, 319-322 (1987).
S. Muangoicharoen, K. Y.
Chiou, and O. K. Manuel, "Determination of selenium and tellurium in the
gas phase using specific columns and atomic absorption spectroscopy", Anal. Chem. 58, 2811-2813 (1986).
K. Y. Chiou and O. K. Manuel,
"Tellurium and selenium in aerosols", Environ. Sci Technol. 20,
987-991 (1986).
W. J. Lin, O. K. Manuel, L.
L. Oliver, and R. I. Thorpe, "Double beta-decay of Se-82 and Te-130",
Nucl, Phys. A457, 285 (1986).
O. K. Manuel, "The need for isotopic data
on refractory elements in the solar wind", in Proceedings of the Workshop on Past and Present Solar Radiation: The
Record in Meteoritic and Lunar Regolith Material, LPI Technical Report
Number 86-02, R. O. Pepin and D. S. Mckay, Editors, p.28 Lunar and Planetary
Institute, Tx (1986).
J. F. Richardson, O. K.
Manuel, B. Sinha and R. I. Thorpe, "Double beta decay of
tellurium-130" Nucl. Phys.A453, 26-44 (1986).
J. M. D. Macelroy and O. K.
Manuel, "Can intrasolar diffusion contribute to isotope anomalies in the
solar wind?", J. Geophys. Res. 91, D473-D482 (1986)
S. Ramadurai and
O. K. Manuel, "On the origin of Neon-E", in Isotopic Ratios in the Solar System, J. Garcia, editor, pp.
1670-170, Centre National D'Etudes Spatiales, Toulouse, France (1985).
K. Y. Chiou and O. K. Manuel, "Emission
sources of chalcogen elements in air", in Trace Substances in Environmental Health XIX, D. D. Hemphill, editor, pp. 56-66, University of Missouri
Press, Columbia, MO (1985).
K. Y. Chiou and
O. K. Manuel, "Chalcogen elements in coal and their redistribution in
combustion products", in Coal
Science and Technology, Volume 9:
Processing and Utilization of High Sulfur
Coals, Y. A. Attia, editor, pp. 89-98, Elsevier Science Publishers B. V.,
Amsterdam (1985).
O. K. Manuel,
Rama and S. Ramadurai, "Heavy noble gases associated with Neon-E", Meteoritics 19, 264-265.
K. Y. Chiou and O. K. Manuel,
"Determination of tellurium and selenium in atmospheric aerosols by
graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry", Anal. Chem. 56,
2721-2723 (1984).
J. M. D. MacElroy
and O. K. Manuel, Diffusional fractionation of light nuclei in the solar
atmosphere," Lunar Planet. Sci. XV,
499-500 (1984).
O. K. Manuel and
G. Hwaung, " Solar abundance of the elements", Meteoritics 18, 209-222
(1983).
O. K. Manuel and G. Hwaung, "Information of
astrophysical interest in the isotopes of solar wind implanted noble
gases", Lunar Planet. Sci. XIV, 458-459 (1983).
R. G. Downing and
O. K. Manuel, "Composition of the noble gases in Canyon Diablo," Geochem J. 16, 157-178 (1982).
G. Hwaung and O. K. Manuel,
"Terrestial-type xenon in meteoritic troilite", Nature 299, 807-810
(1982).
L. L. Oliver, R.
V. Ballad and O. K. Manuel, "Iodine-129 in Missouri rain and milk", J. Radioanal. Chem. 68, 233-266 (1982).
L. L. Oliver, R.
V. Ballad and O. K. Manuel, "Iodine-129 in Missouri thyroids", Health
Phys. 42, 425-432 (1982).
O. K. Manuel and D. D. Sabu, "The noble gas
record of the terrestrial planets,"
Geochem. J. 15, 245-267 (1981).
O. K. Manuel,
"Heterogeneity of isotopic and elemental compositions in meteorites:
Evidence of local synthesis of the elements ", Geokhimiya (12) 1776-1801 (1981) [In Russian].
L. L. Oliver, R. V. Ballad, J. F. Richardson,
and O. K. Manuel, "How much xenon in shales?", Lunar Planet. Sci. XII,
788-790 (1981).
L. L. Oliver, R.
V. Ballad, J. F. Richardson and O. K. Manuel, "Isotopically anomalous
tellurium in Allende: Another relic of local element synthesis", J. Inorg. Nucl. Chem. 43, 2207-2216 (1981).
Third Decade
Presentations (1981-1990)
O. K. Manuel, “Paradigm
setting in cosmology”, lecture presented for the Honors’ Colloquium, Missouri Western State University, St.
Joseph, MO, October 3, 1990.
O. K. Manuel, “The origin of
our elements”, lecture presented to local chapter of Sigma Xi, University of Missouri-Rolla, MO, November 15, 1989.
O. K. Manuel, “The origin of the
elements”, invited talk presented at the Colloquium
on Applications of
Nuclear
Chemistry: A Contemporary Topic for the
Well-Informed Teacher,
St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO, May 6, 1989.
J.
T. Lee, K. Y. Chiou and O. K. Manuel, “K-Ar dating and geochemical determination of the half-life of
tellurium-130 in double beta decay”, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Missouri Academy of Science, Joplin, MO,
April 28-29, 1989.
S. Muangnoicharoen, K. Y.
Chiou and O. K. Manuel, “Determination of volatile organo-selenium compounds in
coal”, paper presented at the Annual
Meeting of the Missouri Academy of Science, Joplin, MO, April 28-29, 1989.
O. K. Manuel, “Cosmology”,
lecture presented as part of the Honors’ Colloquium, Missouri Western State University, St. Joseph, MO, January 25,
1989.
S. Muangnoicharoen, K. Y.
Chiou and O. K. Manuel, “Vapor phase selenium and tellurium in air”, paper
presented at the National Meeting of the
American Chemical Society, Los Angeles, CA, September 25-30, 1988.
K. Y. Chiou and O. K. Manuel, “Tests for one model of the solar
system's origin”, paper presented at the 51st
Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Fayetteville, AR, July 18-22,
1988.
J.-T.
Lee, K. Y. Chiou and O. K. Manuel, “Double beta-decay of tellurium-128 and
tellurium-130”, paper presented at the Annual
Meeting of the Missouri Academy of Science, Kirksvile, MO, April 29-30,
1988.
K. Y. Chiou, S.
Muangnoichareon and O. K. Manuel, “Particulate and gas phase tellurium and
selenium in the ambient atmosphere”, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of
the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, December 6-11, 1987.
O. K. Manuel, “Geochemical
measurements of double beta-decay”, paper presented at the 43rd Southwest Regional Meeting
of the American Chemical Society, Little Rock, AR, USA, December 2-4, 1987.
O. K. Manuel and D. D. Sabu,
“Isotopic anomalies in meteorites”, paper presented at the 43rd Southwest Regional Meeting
of the American Chemical Society, Little Rock, AR, USA, December 2-4, 1987.
O. K. Manuel, “Geochemical
measurements of -decay of selenium-82, tellurium-130 and
tellurium-128”, paper presented at the 194th
National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, New Orleans, LA, USA,
August 30-September 4, 1987.
S. Muangnoichareon, O. K.
Manuel and K. Y. Chiou, “Determination of inorganic species of selenium and
tellurium in air by atomic absorption spectrometry”, paper presented at the 193rd National Meeting of the American
Chemical Society, Denver, CO, April 5-10, 1987.
K. Y. Chiou and O. K. Manuel,
“Chalcogen elements in snow: Relation to
emission source”, paper presented at the 21st
Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Kansas City, MO,
November 5-8, 1986.
O. K. Manuel, “Tellurium and
selenium in snow”, paper presented at the192nd
National American Chemical Society Meeting, Anaheim, CA, September 7-12,
1986.
S. Muangnoicharoen, K. Y.
Chiou and O. K. Manuel, “Determination of selenium and tellurium in the gas
phase using specific columns and atomic absorption spectrometry”, paper presented at the 20th Great Lakes Regional Meeting of the
American Chemical Society, Milwaukee, WI, June 2-4, 1986.
K. Y. Chiou and O. K. Manuel,
“Determination of inorganic tellurium species in natural waters using
cation-exchange graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry”, paper
presented at the 20th Great Lakes
Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Milwaukee, WI, June 2-4,
1986.
O. K. Manuel and K. Y. Chiou,
“Selenium and tellurium in tobacco”, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, Philadelphia, PA, May 26-29, 1986.
O. K. Manuel, “Seventeen
years after Apollo 11: A historical
review of strange xenon in meteoritic and lunar samples”, paper presented at
the Annual Meeting of the American
Association for Advancement of Science, Philadelphia, PA, May 26-29, 1986.
W. J. Lin and O. K. Manuel,
“On the occurrence of a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in Northeast
Finland about two billion years ago”, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Missouri Academy of
Science, Warrensburg, MO, April 25-26, 1986.
K. Y. Chiou and O. K. Manuel,
“Sulfur, selenium and tellurium in coal-fired power plant emissions”, paper
presented at the 20th Annual Midwest
Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Carbondale, IL, USA,
November 6-8, 1985.
K. Y. Chiou and O. K. Manuel,
“Chalcogen elements in coal and their redistribution in combustion products”,
paper presented at the International
Conference on Processing and Utilization of High Sulfur Coals, Columbus,
OH, October, 1985.
K. Y. Chiou and O. K. Manuel,
“Emission sources of chalcogen elements”, paper presented at the 19th Annual Conference on Trace Substances
in the Environment and the 1985
Annual Meeting of the Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health,
Columbia, MO, June, 1985.
W. J. Lin, L. R. Carver and O. K. Manuel, “Fission xenon in the Navajo, New Mexico well gas”, abstract V42A-08 of paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Baltimore, MD, May 27-31, 1985 [Trans. Am. Geophys. Union 66, 414 (1985)].
K. Y. Chiou and O. K. Manuel, “Tellurium
and selenium in atmospheric particles”, abstract A41-08 of paper presented at the
Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Baltimore, MD, May 27-31,
1985 [Trans. Am. Geophys. Union 66, 239 (1985)].
K. Y. Chiou and O. K. Manuel,
“Chalcogen elements in atmospheric particles”, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Missouri Academy of
Science, Springfield, MO, April 26-27, 1985 [Trans. Missouri Academy of Science, J. R. Jones, editor, pp.
125-126, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO (1985)].
J. M. D. MacElroy and O. K.
Manuel, “Diffusional fractionation in the outer layers of the Sun”, paper
presented at the 16th Lunar
and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX, March 1985.
O. K. Manuel, “Chemical and
isotopic heteogeneities in the Sun and its planetary system: Remnants of local element synthesis”, seminar
presented to the U.S. National Bureau of
Standards, Gaithersburg, MD, January 1985.
K. Y. Chiou and O. K. Manuel,
“Chalcogen elements in aerosol particles”, paper presented at the Annual Midwest Regional Meeting of the
American Chemical Society, Springfield, MO, October 1984.
O. K. Manuel, Rama and S.
Ramaduri, “Heavy noble gases associated with Neon-E”, paper presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society,
Albuquerque, NM, July 1984.
J. M. D. MacElroy and O. K.
Manuel, “Diffusional fractionation of light nuclei in the solar atmosphere”,
paper presented at the 15th
Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX, March 1984.
O. K. Manuel, “Solar
abundance of the elements”, paper presented for Bill Philips to the Washington University Department of
Chemistry, St. Louis, MO, March 1984.
O. K. Manuel, “Solar abundance of the
chemical elements”, paper presented at the Physical
Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, INDIA, January 1984.
O. K. Manuel, “Are lighter nuclei
enriched at the solar surface?”,
seminar given at the Tata Institute of
Fundamental Research, Bombay, INDIA, January 1984.
O. K. Manuel and Golden Hwaung, “Solar
abundance of the chemical elements”, paper presented at the Annual Midwest Meeting of the American
Chemical Society, Lawrence, KS, November 1983.
Golden Hwaung [Manuel’s
student], “Iron cores of the sun and the earth”, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Missouri Academy of
Science, St. Louis, MO, April 1983.
O. K. Manuel and Golden
Hwaung, “Isotopic abundance of noble gases in the sun”, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Missouri Academy of
Science, St. Louis, MO, April 1983.
O. K. Manuel and Golden
Hwaung, “Information of astrophysical interest in the isotopes of solar wind
implanted noble gases”, paper presented at the14th Lunar Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX, March 1983.
D. D. Sabu and O. K. Manuel,
“The noble gas record of the primitive nebula and the earth”, Lunar Planetary Institute Conference on
Planetary Volatiles, Alexandria, MN, October 1982.
R. G. Downing and O. K.
Manuel, “Isotope ratios in Canyon Diablo iron”, paper presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the
Meteoritical Society, St. Louis, MO, September 1982.
O. K. Manuel, “Elemental and
isotopic heterogeneities in protoplanetary material”, paper presented at the 184th National Meeting of the
American Chemical Society, Kansas City, MO, September 1982.
R. G. Downing and O. K.
Manuel, “Composition of the noble gases in Canyon Diablo”, paper presented at
the 13th Lunar and Planetary Science
Conference, Houston, TX, March 1982.
O. K. Manuel, “The origin of
the solar system”, paper presented at the Annual
Meeting of the Missouri Academy of Science, St. Joseph, MO, April 1981.
L. L. Oliver and O. K. Manuel, “How much
xenon in shales?” paper presented at the 12th
Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX, March 1981.
Second Decade Publications
(1971-1980)
O. K. Manuel and D. D. Sabu, "Comments on:
Solubility of noble gases in serpentine: Implications for meteoritic noble gas
abundances, by A. Zaikowski and O. A. Schaeffer," Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 51,
233-234 (1980).
D. D. Sabu and O.
K. Manuel, "The neon alphabet game", Lunar Planet. Sci. XI 878-899
(1980).
D. D. Sabu and O.
K. Manuel, "Noble gas anomalies and synthesis of the chemical
elements," Meteoritics 15, 117-138 (1980).
M. Tatsumoto, T. Shimamura, O. K. Manuel, D. M.
Unruh and P. Pellas, "Cm-U and Pu-Xe chronology of meteoritic whitlockite:
Confirmation of live 247Cm in early solar system", Meteoritics XI, 971-973 (1980).
O. Manuel,
"The enigma of helium and anomalous xenon", Icarus 41, 312-315
(1980).
L. L. Oliver, R.
V. Ballad, J. F. Richardson and O. K. Manuel, "Correlated Anomalies of
Tellurium and Xenon in Allende", Meteoritics
14, 503-506 (1979).
R. V. Ballad, L.
L. Oliver, R. G. Downing and O. K. Manuel, "Isotopes of tellurium, xenon
and krypton in the Allende meteorite retain record of nucleosynthesis", Nature 277, 615-620 (1979).
O. K. Manuel,
"Isotopically anomalous noble gases in carbonaceous chondrites", Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 43, 177 (1979).
O. K. Manuel,
"Comment on 'Isotopic anomalies of noble gases in meteorites and their
origins 2. Separated minerals from
Allende' by R. S. Lewis, J. Gros and E. Anders," J. Geophys. Res. 84,
5683-5684 (1979).
R. V. Ballad, L. L. Oliver, R.G. Downing and O.
K. Manuel, "Nucleogenetic heterogeneities in chemical and isotopic
abundances", Meteoritics 13, 387-391 (1978).
D. P. Thompson, A. R. Basu,
E. W. Hennecke and O. K. Manuel, "Noble Gases in the Earth's Mantle",
Phys. Earth Planet. Interiors 17, 98-17 (1978).
R. V. Ballad, L.
L. Oliver, R. G. Downing and O. K. Manuel, "Isotopically anomalous
tellurium accompanies isotopic anomalous components of heavy noble gases in
Allende," U.S. Geological Open File
Report 78-701, pp. 20-22 (1978).
O. K. Manuel, "A
comparison of terrestrial and meteoritic noble gases", in Terrestrial Rare Gases, E. C. Alexander,
Jr. and M. Ozima, editors, pp. 85-91, Center for Academic Publications Press,
Tokyo (1978).
E. W. Hennecke,
R. V. Ballad and O. K. Manuel, "Fission xenon in Wausau, Wisconsin
granite", J. Inorg. Nucl. Chem. 40, 1281-1284 (1978).
R. V. Ballad, S.
H. Tan, J. E. Johnson, D. W. Holman, E. W. Hennecke and O. K. Manuel,
"Iodine-129 in man, cow and deer", Health Physics 34,
691-699 (1978).
O. K. Manuel,
“Comment on isotopic anomalies” in Proceedings
of Robert Welch Foundation Conference on Chemical Research XII. Cosmochemistry,
263-272 (1978).
R. G. Downing, E.
W. Hennecke and O. K. Manuel, "Josephinite: A terrestrial alloy with
radiogenic xenon-129 and noble gas imprint of iron meteorites", Geochem. J. 11, 219-229 (1977).
E. W. Hennecke
and O. K. Manuel, "Argon, krypton and xenon in iron meteorites", Earth Planet Sci. Lett. 36, 29-43 (1977).
O. K. Manuel and
D. D. Sabu, "Strannge Xenon, Extinct Superheavy Elements and the Solar
Neutrino Puzzle", Science 195, 208-209 (1977).
E. W. Hennecke
and O. K. Manuel, "Iodine-129 in Iodyrite and Marshite", J. Inorg Nucl. Chem. 39,
559-563 (1977).
D. D. Sabu and O.
K. Manuel, "Xenon record of the early solar system", Nature 262, 28-32 (1976).
E. W. Hennecke
and O. K. Manuel, "A comparison of the noble gases in three meteorite
speciments labeled Springfield", Z.
Naturforsch 31a, 293-296 (1976).
R. V. Ballad, D.
W. Holman, E. W. Hennecke, J. E. Johnson, O. K. Manuel and L. M. Nicholson,
"Iodine-129 in thyroids of grazing animals," Health Physics 30,
345-350 (1976).
D. D. Sabu and O.
K. Manuel, "The xenon record of element synthesis", Copyright lecture
notes for paper no. P58, presented
at the 1976 AGU Meeting, Sheraton
Hotel, Washington DC, April 14 (1976).
O. K. Manuel and D. D. Sabu, "Elemental and isotopic inhomogeneities in noble gases: The case for local synthesis of the chemical elements", Trans. Missouri Acad. Sci. 9, 104 122 (1975).
E. W. Hennecke
and O. K. Manuel, "Noble gases Hawaian xenolith", Nature 257, 778-780 (1975).
E. W. Hennecke and O. K.
Manuel, "Noble gases in lava rock from Mount Capulin, New Mexico", Nature 256, 284-287 (1975).
E. W.
Hennecke and O. K. Manuel, "Noble gases in CO2 well gas,
Harding County, New Mexico", Earth Planet Sci. Lett. 27, 346-355 (1975).
E. W. Hennecke and
O. K. Manuel and D. D. Sabu, "Noble gases in Thailand tektites", J. Geophys. Res. 80, 2931-2934 (1975).
E. W. Hennecke
and O. K. Manuel, and D. D. Sabu, "Double beta-decay of
tellurium-128", Phys. Rev. 11, 1378-1384 (1975).
D. D. Sabu, E. W. Hennecke and O. K. Manuel,
"Trapped xenon in meteorites", Nature
251, 21-24 (1974).
D. E. Sinclair,
and O. K. Manuel, "Argon-36 from neutron capture on chlorine in
nature", Z. Naturforsch. 29A, 488-492 (1974).
R. D. Beaty and
O. K. Manuel, "Tellerium in rocks", Chem. Geol. 12, 155-159
(1973).
E. W. Hennecke
and O. K. Manuel, "Noble gases in lunar fines: Implications for the early
history of the Earth", Lunar Science
IV, 357-359 (edit. By J. W.
Chamberlain and C. Watkins) Lunar Science Institute, Houston, TX (1973).
M. S. Boulos, V.
J. Becker and O. K. Manuel, "Iodine-129 in thyroid glands", Health Physics 24, 375-387 (1973).
B. Srinivasan, E.
C. Alexander, Jr., R. D. Beaty, D. E. Sinclair and O. K. Manuel, Double
beta-decay of selenium-82", Econ.
Geol. 68, 252-257 (1973).
O. K. Manuel, E.
W. Hennecke, and D. D. Sabu, "Xenon in carbonaceous chondrites", Nature Phys. Sci.240, 99-101 (1972).
K. F. Flynn, B.
Srinivasan, O. K. Manuel and L. E. Glendenin, "Distribution of mass and
charge in the spontaneous fission of 244Cm", Phys. Rev. 6C, 2211-2214 (1972).
B. Srinivasan, E.
W. Hennecke, D. E. Sinclair and O. K. Manuel, "A comparison of noble gases
released from lunar fines (#15601164) with noble gases in meteorites and in the
Earth," Proceedings of the Third
Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, vol. 2, 1927-1945 (1972).
B. Srinivasan, E. C.
Alexander, Jr. and O. K. Manuel, "Iodine-129 in terrestrial ores," Science 173, 327 (1971).
A. G. Collins, J. H. Bennett and O. K. Manuel,
"Iodine and algae in sedimentary rocks associated with iodine-rich
brines," Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 82, 2607-2619 (1971).
D. D. Sabu and O. K. Manuel,
"Superheavy elements: Were they present in meteorites?" Trans. Missouri Acad. Sci. 5, 16-21 (1971).
B. Srinivasan and O. K. Manuel,
"On the isotopic composition of trapped helium and neon in carbonaceous
chondrites," Earth Planet. Sci.
Lett. 12, 282-286 (1971).
M. S. Boulos and O. K.
Manuel, "The xenon record of extinct radioactivities in the Earth," Science 174, 1334-1336 (1971).
E. W. Hennecke and O. K.
Manuel, "Mass fractionation and the isotopic anomalies of xenon and
krypton in ordinary chondrites," Z.
Naturforsch. 20a, 1980-1986
(1971).
Second Decade Presentations
(1971-1980)
O. K. Manuel, “The origin of
the solar system”, seminar presented to the W.
T. Schrenk Student Affiliate of the American Chemical Society, Rolla, MO,
September 1980.
R. G. Downing, O. K. Manuel,
M. A. Purcell, J. F. Richardson, B. Sinha and B. Srinivasan, “Double-beta decay
of tellurium-130”, paper presented at the 179th
National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Houston, TX, USA, March
1980.
L. L. Oliver, R. V. Ballad, J. F. Richardson and O. K. Manuel, “Tellurium isotopes in the Allende meteorite”, paper presented at the 179th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Houston, TX, USA, March 1980.
D. D. Sabu and O. K. Manuel,
“The neon alphabet game”, paper presented at the 11th Lunar & Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX, USA,
March 1980.
R. G. Downing and O. K.
Manuel, “Ar-40/Ar-36: An interpretation
to the puzzle”, paper presented at the 42nd
Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Heidelberg, Germany, September
1979.
R. G. Downing and O. K.
Manuel, “Noble gases in diamonds and other mantle-derived rocks and minerals”,
paper presented at the 14th Midwest
Regional Meeting of the American
Chemical Society, Fayetteville, AR, USA October 1978.
R. V. Ballad, L. L. Oliver, R. G. Downing and O. K. Manuel, “Isotopic analysis of meteoritic tellurium by neutron activation”, paper presented at the 14th Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Fayetteville, AR, USA October 1978.
O. K. Manuel, “Experimental
evidence of chemical and isotopic heterogeneities from stellar
nucleosynthesis”, seminar presented at the University
of Missouri-Rolla, Department of Physics, Rolla, MO, USA, September 1978.
E.
W. Hennecke, R. V. Ballad, and O. K. Manuel, “Fission xenon in Wausau, Wisconsin granite”, paper presented at
the 175th National Meeting of the
American Chemical Society,
Anaheim, CA, USA, March 1978.
O. K. Manuel, “Nucleogenetic
anomalies in isotopic and elemental noble gas abundance”, comments made at the Robert A. Welch Foundation Conference on
Chemical Research, XXI. Cosmochemistry, Houston, TX, USA,
November 1977.
O. K. Manuel, “Abundance
pattern and isotopic composition of noble gases in the mantle” paper presented
at the 13th Midwest Regional
Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Rolla, MO, USA, November 1977.
(Manuel served as chair and organizer of a special symposium in honor of
Professor Paul Kazuo Kuroda).
R. V. Ballad, S. H. Tan, J.
E. Johnson, L. L. Oliver, E. W. Hennecke and O. K. Manuel, “A comparison of
iodine-129 levels in human, beef, and deer thyroids from Missouri”, paper
presented at the 174th National Meeting
of the American Chemical Society, Chicago, IL, USA, September 1977.
D. P. Thompson, O. K. Manuel,
and A. R. Basu, “Noble gases in whole rock, spinel, lherzolite xenolith and an
amphibole minerals separate”, paper presented at the 174th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Chicago,
IL, USA, September 1977.
R. G. Downing and O. K.
Manuel, “Noble gases in Josephinite”, paper presented at the 174th National Meeting of the American
Chemical Society, Chicago, IL, USA, September 1977.
O. K. Manuel and D. D. Sabu, “The noble
gas record of nucleosynthesis”, paper presented at the 172nd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, San
Francisco, CA, USA September 1976.
O. K. Manuel and D. D. Sabu, “The noble
gas record of element synthesis”, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Missouri Academy of Science, Rolla, MO, April
1976.
O. K. Manuel, “The seven percent
solution: Strange xenon in the Sun”, Seminar given before the Twentieth Annual Alumni Reunion at SE Missouri
State University, Cape
Girardeau, MO, USA, March 1976.
O. K. Manuel, “Local
synthesis of chemical elements of the solar system”, seminar presented at the University of Missouri-Rolla, Chemistry
Department, March 1976.
O. K. Manuel, “The xenon record
of element synthesis”, seminar presented at Missouri
Western State College, Chemistry Department, January, 1976.
D. D. Sabu and O. K. Manuel,
“The xenon record of element synthesis”, paper presented at the Annual Meeting
of the American Geophysical Union, 1976 [Trans.
Am. Geophys. Union 57, 278,
1976].
R. V. Ballad and O. K.
Manuel, “The detection of iodine-129 in mammalian thyroids from Missouri”,
paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Missouri Academy of Science, Liberty, MO, USA, April 1975.
E. W. Hennecke and O. K.
Manuel, “Noble gases in an Hawaiian xenolith”, paper presented at the Annual
Meeting of the Missouri Academy of
Science, Liberty, MO, USA, April 1975.
D. W. Holman and O. K.
Manuel, “Determination of iodine in biological material by neutron activation”,
paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Missouri Academy of Sciences,
Liberty, MO, USA, April 1975.
E. W. Hennecke, V. J. Becker, O. K. Manuel and D. D. Sabu, “The detection of excess Xe-129 in tellurides”, paper presented at the National Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 1973 [Trans. Am. Geophys. Union 54, 1227 (1973)].
O. K. Manuel and E. W.
Hennecke, “Abundance and isotopic composition of heavy noble gases in Greenland
anorthosites”, paper presented at the
National Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA,
December 1973 [Trans. Am. Geophys. Union
54, 1227 (1973)] (Dr. Manuel was
co-chairman of the Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology Section/Low
Temperature Isotope Geochemistry).
M. S. Boulos, V. J. Becker
and O. K. Manuel, “Iodine-129 in thyroid glands”, paper presented at the 1973 Annual Meeting of the American Chemical
Society, Nuclear Division [See abstract in Division of Nuclear Chemistry
and Technology, p. 4, 1973].
O. K. Manuel, E. W. Hennecke,
and D. D. Sabu, “Xenon isotopes in carbonaceous chondrites”, paper presented at
the 35th Annual Meeting of the
Meteoritical Society, Chicago, IL, USA, November 16-18, 1972 [Meteoritics
8, 54, 1973].
E. W. Hennecke and O. K.
Manuel, “Noble gases in a xenolith”, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical
Union, 1972 [Trans. Am. Geophys.
Union 53, 17, 1972].
D. E. Sinclair and O. K.
Manuel, “Argon-36 from neutron capture on chlorine in nature”, paper presented
at the Annual Meeting of the American
Geophysical Union, 1972 [Trans. Am.
Geophys. Union 53, 16, 1972].
B. Srinivasan, E. W. Hennecke, D. E. Sinclair, and O. K. Manuel, “The role of isotopic mass fractionation in the production of noble gas anomalies in lunar fines from the Apollo 15 mission”, 3rd Lunar Science Conference, p. 634, Houston, TX, USA, January 1972.
First Decade Publications
(1961-1970)
O. K. Manuel, "Isotopic anomalies of
noble gases from mass fractionation," Meteoritics
5, 207-208 (1970).
O. K. Manuel, R. J. Wright, D. K. Miller and
P. K. Kuroda, "Heavy noble gases in Leoville: The case for mass fractionated xenon in
carbonaceous chondrites," J.
Geophys. Res. 75, 5693-5701
(1970).
P. K. Kuroda and O. K. Manuel, "Mass
fractionation and isotope anomalies in neon and xenon," Nature 227, 1113-1116 (1970).
G. A. Bennett and O. K. Manuel, "Xenon in
natural gases," Geochim. Cosmochim.
Acta 34, 593-610 (1970).
E. C. Alexander, Jr., B. Srinivasan and O. K.
Manuel, "I-Xe dating of silicates from Toluca iron," Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 6, 355-358 and 8, 188 (1970).
E. C. Alexander, Jr., B. Srinivasan and O. K.
Manuel, "Xenon in Kirkland Lake tellurides," Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 5,
478-482 (1969).
B. Srinivasan, E. C. Alexander, Jr.,
O. K. Manuel and D. E. Troutner, "Xenon and krypton from the spontaneous
fission of Cf-252," Phys. Rev. 179, 1166-1169 (1969).
E. C. Alexander, Jr. and O. K. Manuel,
"Xenon in chondrules and matrix material of chondrites," Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 33, 298-301 (1969).
E. C. Alexander, Jr., G. A.
Bennett, B. Srinivasan and O. K. Manuel, "Xenon-134 from the decay of
cesium-134," Phys. Rev. 175, 1494 (1968).
E. C. Alexander, Jr., J. H. Bennett and O. K.
Manuel, "On noble gas anomalies in the Great Namaqualand troilite," Z. Naturforsch. 23a, 1266-1271 (1968).
E. C. Alexander, Jr. and O. K. Manuel,
"Noble gases in silicate inclusions of Kodaikanal," Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 4, 363-367 (1968).
V. Becker, J. H.
Bennett and O. K. Manuel, "Iodine and uranium in ultrabasic rocks and
carbonatites, " Earth Planet. Sci.
Lett. 4, 357-362 (1968).
O. K. Manuel, E. C. Alexander, Jr., D. V.
Roach and R. Ganapathy, "129I-129Xe dating of
chondrites," Icarus 9, 291-304 (1968).
E. C. Alexander, Jr. and O. K. Manuel,
"Xenon in the inclusions of Canyon Diablo and Toluca iron meteorites,
" Earth Planet Sci. Lett. 4, 113-117 (1968).
R. A. Canalas, E. C. Alexander, Jr. and O. K.
Manuel, "Terrestrial abundance of noble gases," J. Geophys. Res. 73,
3331-3334 (1968).
J. H. Bennett and O. K. Manuel, "On
iodine abundance in deep-sea sediments," J. Geophys. Res. 73,
2302-2303 (1968).
E. C. Alexander, Jr., O. K. Manuel and R.
Ganapathy, "Decay of Rb-86 by electron capture," Phys. Rev. 165, 1264
(1968).
O. K. Manuel, "Noble gases in the
Fayetteville meteorite," Geochim.
Cosmochim. Acta 31, 2413-2431
(1967).
J. H. Bennett and O. K. Manuel,
"On the origin of noble gas anomalies in Canyon Diablo graphite," Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 3, 95-100 (1967).
E. C. Alexander, Jr. and O. K. Manuel,
"Isotopic anomalies of krypton and xenon in Canyon Diablo graphite," Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2, 220- 224 (1967).
M. W. Rowe, D. D. Bogard and
O. K. Manuel, "Noble gases from Peace River, LaLande and Achilles
meteorites," Geochim. Cosmochim.
Acta 29, 1199-1202 (1965).
D. D. Bogard, M. W. Rowe, O.
K. Manuel and P. K. Kuroda, "Noble gas anomalies in the mineral
Thucholite," J. Geophys. Res. 70, 703-708 (1965).
O. K. Manuel and
M. W. Rowe, "Noble gases in the Bruderheim chondrite," Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 28, 1999-2003 (1964).
M. W. Rowe and O. K.
Manuel,"g-Radioactivity in the
Fayetteville meteorite," J. Geophys.
Res. 69, 1944-1945 (1964).
O. K. Manuel and P. K.
Kuroda, "Isotopic composition of the rare gases in the Fayetteville
meteorite," J. Geophys. Res. 69, 1413-1419 (1964).
P. K. Kuroda and O. K. Manuel,
"On the chronology of the formation of the solar system. 1. Radiogenic xenon-129 in the Earth's
atmosphere," J. Geophys. Res. 67, 4859-4862 (1962).
First Decade Presentations
(1961-1970)
O. K. Manuel, D. K. Miller, R. J. Wright,
and P. K. Kuroda, “Solar-type krypton in the Potter brecciated chondrite”,
abstract 700 of paper presented at
the Combined Southeast-Southwest Meeting
of the American Chemical Society, New Orleans, LA, USA, December 1970.
M. S. Boulos and O. K.
Manuel, “Isotopic anomalies of xenon and krypton in deep gas wells”, abstract 696 of paper presented at the Combined Southeast-Southwest Meeting of the
American Chemical Society, New Orleans, LA, USA, December 1970.
E. W. Hennecke and O. K.
Manuel, “Xenon and krypton from stepwise heating experiments on ordinary
chondrites”, abstract 685 of paper
presented at the Combined
Southeast-Southwest Meeting of the American Chemical Society, New Orleans,
LA, USA, December 1970.
O. K. Manuel, and P. K.
Kuroda, “Mass fractionation and isotope anomalies in neon and xenon”, paper
presented at the National Meeting of the
American Geophysical Union, Washington DC, USA, April 1970.
Robert J. Wright, O. K.
Manuel, and D. K. Miller, “Xenon and krypton from step-wise heating experiments
on carbonaceous chondrites”, paper presented at the National Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Washington DC,
USA, April 1970.
E. C. Alexander, Jr., B.
Srinivasan, and O. K. Manuel, “I-Xe dating of meteorites”, paper presented at
the National Meeting of the American
Geophysical Union, Washington DC, USA, April 1970.
B. Srinivasan and E. C.
Alexander, Jr. [Manuel’s students[, “Xenon in tellurium and cesium minerals”,
paper presented at the 1970 National
Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, USA [Trans. Am. Geophys. Union 51,
340, 1970].
V. J. Becker [Manuel’s student], “Halogens and
uranium content of tektites”, paper presented at the 1970 National Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, USA [Trans. Am. Geophys. Union 51, 342, 1970].
O. K. Manuel, “Isotopic
anomalies of noble gases from mass fractionation”, paper presented at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the
Meteoritical Society, Greenbelt, MD, USA, October 27-30, 1970 [Meteoritics 5, 207-208, 1970].
O. K. Manuel, E. C.
Alexander, Jr., and D. V. Roach, “I-Xe dating of chondrites”, paper presented
at the 1968 National Meeting of the
American Geophysical Union, USA [Trans.
Am. Geophys. Union 49, 236,
1968].
E. C. Alexander, Jr. and O.
K. Manuel, “Noble gases in the inclusions of iron meteorites”, paper presented
at the 1968 National Meeting of the
American Geophysical Union, USA [Trans.
Am. Geophys. Union 49, 237,
1968].
J. H. Bennett and O. K.
Manuel, “Terrestrial distribution of iodine and uranium”, paper presented at
the 1968 National Meeting of the American
Geophysical Union, USA [Trans. Am.
Geophys. Union 49, 245, 1968].
E. C. Alexander and O. K.
Manuel,” Xenon and krypton anomalies in iron meteorites”, paper presented at
the Southwestern Regional Meeting of the
American Chemical Society, Little Rock, AR, USA, December, 1967.
J. H. Bennett, R. A. Canalas,
and O. K. Manuel, Iodine, uranium, and xenon in terrestrial samples, paper
presented at the Southwestern Regional
Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Little Rock, AR, USA, December,
1967.
O. K. Manuel, “Xenon isotope
anomaly”, paper presented at the Southwestern
Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Little Rock, AR, USA,
December, 1967.
O. K. Manuel, “Xenology”,
paper presented at the International
Nuclear and Cosmochemistry Symposium, Fayetteville, AR, USA, August 1967.
E. C. Alexander, Jr., R.
Ganapathy, and O. K. Manuel, “Decay of Rubidium-86 by electron capture”, paper
presented at the International Nuclear
and Cosmochemistry Symposium, Fayetteville, AR, USA, August 1967.
O. K. Manuel, E. C.
Alexander, Jr., and R. Ganapathy, “On the thermal history of chondritic
meteorites”, paper presented at the International
Nuclear and Cosmochemistry Symposium, Fayetteville, AR, USA, August 1967.
E. C. Alexander, Jr., and O.
K. Manuel, “On noble gas anomalies in Great Namagualand trolite”, paper
presented at the International Nuclear
and Cosmochemistry Symposium, Fayetteville, AR, USA, August 1967.
J. H. Bennett and O. K.
Manuel, “On the terrestrial distribution of iodine”, paper presented at the International Nuclear and Cosmochemistry
Symposium, Fayetteville, AR, USA, August 1967.
E.
C. Alexander, Jr. and O. K. Manuel, “Noble gases in Canyon Diablo graphite”,
paper presented at the 48th National
Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, USA, April 1967
[Abstract no. P128c, Supplemental Program].
O. K. Manuel, “Noble gases from the Fayetteville meteorites”, paper presented at the 48th National Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, USA, April 1967 [Abstract no. P128b, Supplemental Program].
R. A. Canalas and O. K.
Manuel, “Noble gases from Fig Tree Shale and the evolution of the atmosphere”,
paper presented at the 48th National
Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, USA, April 1967
[Abstract no. P128a, Supplemental Program].
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Ms.
O’Conners, a 9th grade teacher of Latin and algebra in Wichita,
Kansas.
Mr.
Gray, a 10th grade science teacher in North High School, Wichita,
Kansas.
Dr.
James Pauley, a teacher of general and physical chemistry, KSC, Pittsburg,
Kansas.
Professor
Paul Kazuo Kuroda, research advisor , University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
Professor
John H. Reynolds, postdoctoral advisor, University of California, Berkeley.
C. Bolon (Ph.D., 2002); A. Katragada (M.S., 2001); P. Jangam (M.S., 2000); Bo Zhong; R. A. Winters (Ph.D., 1997); J.-T. Lee (Ph.D 1995); Bin Li (Ph.D., 1993); S.-I. Kim (M.S., May 1990); G. J. Fox (M.S., 1989); S. Muangnoicharoen (Ph.D., 1989); W.-J. Lin, (Ph.D., 1987); K. Y. Chiou, (Ph.D., 1985); Golden Hwaung (M.S., 1982); R. G. Downing (Ph.D., 1981); L. L. Oliver (Ph.D., 1981); B. Sinha (Ph.D., 1980); K. M. Garst (M.S., 1980); J. F Richardson (M.S., 1980); R. V. Ballad (Ph.D., 1978); E. W. Hennecke (Ph.D., 1975); S. H. Tan (M.S., 1975); R. D. Beaty (Ph.D., 1973); D. E. Sinclair (M.S., 1972); M. S. Boulos (Ph.D., 1972); Henry Ngo; B. Srinivasan (Ph.D., 1971); V. J. Becker (M.S., 1971); D. W. Holman; E. W. Hennecke (M.S., 1971); E. C. Alexander, Jr., (Ph.D., 1970); G. A. Bennett (M.S., 1969); J. H. Bennett (M.S. 1968); R. A. Canalas (M.S., 1967).
Undergraduate Students (a few of many)
Lucie Johannes, Cara Lietz, Erin Miller, Adam Nolte, James-Alan
Holt Powers, Daniel Ragland, Ken Windler, Joshua Zirbel
Daniel Armstrong, Wilbur Brown, Don Castleman, Jaifu Fang, Stig
Friberg, Ramachandran Ganapathy, Al Ghiorso, Bill James, James Johnson, John
Koenig, Louise Kuroda, J. M. D. MacElroy, Uli Ott, Souriraja Ramadurai, Ann Reynolds, Gerry
Reece, Kittie Robertson, Carl Rouse, Marvin Rowe, V. A. Samaranayake, Hope
Shastri, Nirmal Shastri, Mayank Vahia and the late Drs. Raymond L.
Bisplinghoff, Dwarka Das Sabu, and Glenn T. Seaborg.
Oliver’s wife (Caroline) and children (Hope, Sirikka, W. Kyle, J. D., N. Kumar, Oliver, Judith, Sharon and Suzanne) were both patient and understanding as he ignored other responsibilities to seek an understanding of the origin and evolution of the solar system and the composition and source of luminosity of the Sun.
Secretary
Phyllis
L. Johnson served as his personal secretary and surrogate mother to his
students for most of his academic career.