Californium-252 in Teaching and Research

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"Californium-252 in Teaching and Research." Nuclear Technology, 31(1), p. 146 Additional informationNotes on contributorsArthur F. ScottArthur F. Scott, following the completion of doctoral work at Harvard, spent a year with the late Kasimir Fajans in Munich. In 1923 he joined the chemistry staff at Reed College, and for the next 50 years he served on the College’s faculty, except for an interlude of 11 years during which he taught at The Rice Institute in Houston. A year’s leaveof- absence (1958-1959) was invested in study and work at the reactor at MIT and at the Hot Laboratory at Brookhaven. In 1948 Scott introduced a course in radiochemistry into the curriculum at Reed College; in 1968 he was given the responsibility of installing a TRIGA reactor (250 kW) on the Reed campus. This reactor now serves a consortium often colleges in the Portland area for educational and research purposes. In 1948 Reed established a six months’ training program in radiobiology, first under the sponsorship of the Division of Biology and Medicine of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and subsequently under the sponsorship of the Medical Branch of the Armed Services Special Weapons Project. Scott was Coordinator of this special program, which was continued on an annual basis for a period of ten years. In 1950, Scott became chairman of the first Radiation Advisory Committee of the Oregon State Board of Health, and in 1968 he was appointed chairman of the Oregon State Nuclear Development Coordinating Committee, serving in this capacity for two years.