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Caroline Stuart Littlejohn Herzenberg
Physics Division

Appointment: 1959 – 1961
Supervisors: John Schiffer,
Stan Hanna and Gil Perlow

General Information


ANL Research Highlights

I was a participant in the initiation of Mössbauer effect research in the United States and coauthored early classical papers in this area; I was also involved in some low energy nuclear spectroscopy.

Summary of Activities at Subsequent Positions

Assistant professor of physics at Illinois Institute of Technology 1961-66

Undergraduate and graduate instruction and supervision of theses, director of High Voltage laboratory and Mössbauer effect research programs.

Research physicist/senior physicist at IIT Research Institute, 1967-71

Analysis of returned lunar samples using Mössbauer spectrometry.

Visiting associate professor, University of Illinois at the Medical Center, 1971-74. Graduate laboratory instruction in radioactive isotope utilization and applications.

Lecturer in physics, California State University , Fresno , 1975-76

General physics curriculum and electromagnetic theory lectures.

Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory, 1977-2001

Applied Physics Division – instrumentation development for synthetic fuels production and related activities.

Energy & Environmental Systems Division, Environmental Assessment & Information Systems Division, Decision & Information Systems Division – radiological and chemical emergency preparedness and response and related activities.


New Endeavors

Retired. I visit Argonne fairly often and continue with my interests including science and society, women in science, and fundamental issues in science.

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