George Milton Milton Murray

Background

Murray, George Milton was born on June 17, 1953 in Manchester, Tennessee, United States. Son of George Frederick Murray and Elizabeth Marjorie (Brown) Parvin.

Education

He received his B.A. in chemistry from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1982 and the Ph.D. in chemistry from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1988.

Career

He specializes in chemical analysis, sensors and molecularly imprinted polymers. He spent a year at the University of the South (Sewanee) before enlisting in the United States Navy. He performed Post-doctoral work in the Transuranium Research Laboratory at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

He accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 1992 and advanced to Associate Professor with tenure in 1998. He then accepted a position as Senior Professional Staff at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He left Johns Hopkins to become Research Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, Tennessee in May 2008.

Murray has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals as well as articles in the popular science press. He holds nineteen U.S. patents, thirteen world patents and was named as one of twenty-five Master Inventors of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. US Patent Office

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Achievements

• Achievements include being first to observe anti-Stokes luminescence from an actinide compound. First to obtain (with others) isotopicallyresolved uranium ion fluorescence in an inductively coupled plasma discharge.

Membership

With United States Navy, 1972-1979, PTO. Member American Chemical Society, Society for Applied Spectroscopy.

Connections

Married Mary Lynn Baker, December 19, 1980. Children: Patrick Colin, Andrew Tully, Elizabeth Caitlin.

Father:

George Frederick Murray Parvin

Mother:

Elizabeth Marjorie (Brown) Parvin

Spouse:

Mary Lynn Baker

child:

Patrick Colin Murray

child:

Andrew Tully Murray

child:

Elizabeth Caitlin Murray