Background
Garrett, Jerry Dale was born on October 1, 1940 in Springfield, Missouri, United States. Son of John Russell Garrett and Retha Donna (Franklin) Harlan.
Garrett, Jerry Dale was born on October 1, 1940 in Springfield, Missouri, United States. Son of John Russell Garrett and Retha Donna (Franklin) Harlan.
Bachelor of Science, U. Missouri, 1962; Master of Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1967; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, 1970.
Postdoctoral appointee, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1970-1971;
postdoctoral appointee, Los Alamos (New Mexico) Science Laboratory, 1971-1972;
staff member, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, 1972-1975;
senior scientist, section leader, Oak Ridge (Tennessee) National Laboratory, since 1988;
science director, Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility, since 1992. Lecturer Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, 1974-1993. Guest scientist Brookhaven National Laboratory, summer 1978, Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, England, summer 1984, Joint Institute for Heavy Ion Research, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, summers, 1984-1985, 87.
Advisor International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, since 1985. Member organizing committee Niels Bohr Centennial Conference, 1985. Chairman International Conference on Nuclear Shapes, 1987, Nuclear Chemistry Gordon Conference, 1991, Workshop on Production and Use of Intense Radioactive Ion Beams, 1992.
Member Panel on Basic Nuclear Data Compilations of National Research Council, 1992-1993. Member Subatomic Physics Grant Selection committee National Science and Engineering Research Council Canada, 1992-1995. Member nuclear science advising committee United States Department of Energy and National Science Foundation, since 1993.
Lieutenant United States Navy, 1962-1966. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society (division nuclear chemistry), European Physical Society, Danish Physical Society, New York Academy Sciences.
Married Anne Marie Levesque, September 25, l965. L child, Amy Catherine.