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Ping Yang
'05Ping Yang graduated from Michigan Tech with a PhD in Chemistry in 2005 and is the Deputy Director of the G.T. Seaborg Institute for Transactinium Science and a Staff Scientist in the "Physics and Chemistry of Materials" group of the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). She has extensive experience in computational approaches to modeling electronic structure and reactivity of actinides, surface . . .
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Melvin Calvin
'31Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1911, Melvin Calvin received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the Michigan College of Mining and Technology in 1931 and a PhD in chemistry from the University of Minnesota in 1935. He began his academic career in 1937 at the University of California at Berkeley, where he stayed for the remainder of his career. He died in 1997. Calvin was the first scientist to unravel the . . .
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Marek Urban
'84Dr. Urban received his BS degree in 1979 in material science and chemistry from AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow, Poland. He earned his PhD degree in chemistry with Professor Bahne Cornilsen in 1984, after joining the Chemistry Department of Michigan Tech with a master's degree in chemistry from Marquette University in 1981. Since 1986, after spending two years as Research Associate in the Macromolecular . . .
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