In celebrating the career and accomplishments of this year's Seaborg Award recipient it is fitting that I recount his impact on my career and pay tribute to his scientific legacy. I first met Dick in 1975 while I was attending the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and performing my doctoral research at the Transuranium Research Laboratory (TRL), Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The TRL was a focal point of actinide science attracting notable researchers from around the world. Dick was a TRL staff scientist at the time and he took an interest in my work. I quickly learned that he was a valuable resource for all things actinide. He even took me under his wing when my thesis director took a one-year sabbatical leave in Europe. We performed the first synthesis and analysis of americium through einsteinium phosphates and the electrochemistry of berkelium, curium and californium, to be presented.

Tribute to Richard G. Haire – mentor, collaborator, coauthor and colleague

245th National Meeting (2013)

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