For the last 11 years I have had the unique privilege of working with Walt Loveland, an extraordinary scientist who dedicated his life and career to Oregon State University in Corvallis, a small town in Western Oregon.  Unless he is gone for an irradiation experiment at Berkeley or another research accelerator facility, every morning, a few minutes after 7 A.M., he can be seen walking through the back door of the reactor building to his small office that he has occupied for almost five decades. Walt's mentor during his first years in OSU, prof. Roman Schmidt once told me that he never met a better blend of a chemist and physicist in one person. Yes, Walt, an old fashioned professor who still writes his notes with an ink-pen on a yellow paper pad is actually a very modern nuclear chemist. His numerous research publications and several textbooks are a thoughtful attempt to tie nuclear chemistry and physics into a cooperative endeavor called nuclear science. I am honored with opportunity to speak about him.

Walt Loveland � a modern nuclear chemist

247th National Meeting (2014)

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