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Kerley, Gerald Irwin was born on March 23, 1941 in Houston, Texas, United States. Son of James Gregory and Eulalia Kerley.
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Gerald Irwin Kerley
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Gerald Irwin Kerley, American Physicist. Achievements include developing equations of state for materials, especially at high pressures and temperatures, theories of liquids, chemical equilibrium, phase transitions, explosive and detonation phenomena; developed new techniques for use of material models in hydrodynamic codes and applications to shock wave phenomena in condensed matter. Captain United States Army, 1967-1969.
Education
Bachelor of Science, Ohio U., 1963; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Illinois, 1966.
Career
Teaching assistant, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1963-1967; physicist, Los Alamos (New Mexico) National Laboratory, 1969-1984; physicist, Sandia National laboratories, Albuquerque, 1984-1995; consultant in field, since 1995.
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Membership
Captain United States Army, 1967-1969.
Connections
Married Donna Carrol Rice, October 20, 1990.
