Many nuclear chemistry students were encouraged by Frank Kinard to pursue the scientific careers of their dreams. While I never had the pleasure of taking a course taught by Frank, I nonetheless felt such support in my nuclear chemistry career through significant professional interactions with him. These included: 1) discussing my LLNL applied nuclear chemistry work or the latest super heavy element (SHE) developments as a guest lecturer during various SJSU Nuclear Chemistry Summer Schools (NCSS); 2) helping host and arrange tours of LLNL and the National Ignition Facility (NIF) for NCSS students; and 3) serving on the executive board of the ACS NUCL division together. I will discuss these long-standing interactions during this talk. As an example of the latest science topic used to engage students, I will present a summary of SHE research over the last 10-15 years on the synthesis of elements 113 � 118, including the recent IUPAC acceptance of element names for 114 (flerovium) and 116 (livermorium). Elements 113-118 have been synthesized and characterized using fusion-evaporation nuclear reactions of 48Ca beams on actinide targets (237Np, 242,244Pu, 243Am, 245,248Cm, 249Bk, and 249Cf, respectively) at the U400 cyclotron located at the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions in Dubna, Russia [1]. [1] Yu. Ts. Oganessian, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 109  (2012) 162501; Yu. Ts. Oganessian, et al., Phys. Rev. C 87  (2013) 014302; Yu. Ts. Oganessian, J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 34  (2007) R165; and references therein. This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344.

Importance of service and education to Frank Kinard

248th National Meeting (2014)

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