Joseph B. Natowitz

Background

Natowitz, Joseph B. was born on December 24, 1936 in Saranac Lake, New York, United States.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, U. Florida, 1958; Certified in Meteorology, University of California at Los Angeles, 1959; Doctor of Philosophy in Nuclear Chemistry, U. Pittsburgh, 1965.

Career

Staff meteorologist, First lieutenant, United States Air Force, 1958-1961; graduate teaching assistant, U. Pittsburgh, 1961-1962; graduate research assistant, U. Pittsburgh, 1962-1965; postdoctoral research associate, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1965-1967; research collaborator, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1965-1967; assistant professor, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical U., College Station, 1967-1972; associate professor, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical U., College Station, 1972-1976; professor, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical U., College Station, since 1976; head department chemistry, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical U., College Station, 1981-1985; director Cyclotron Institute, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical U., College Station, since 1991. Part-time instructor State University of New York-Stony Brook, 1966-1967. Research collaborator Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley, California, 1966, Los Alamos (New Mexico) National Laboratory, 1973-1974.

Alexander Von Humboldt senior scientist Max Planck Institute für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany, 1978. Visiting professor Institute for Nuclear Studies, U. Tokyo, 1979, U. Claude Bernard, Institute de Physique Nucleaire, 1983, U. de Caen, 1985, Center des Etudes Nucleaires de Saclay, 1986, U. Catholic de Louvain, 1987. Former member accelerator review committee TASCC, Chalk River, Canada.

Former member of advisory committee LBL Superhilac, ORNL Cyclotron, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. Member program advising committee Ganil Lab. Member nuclear science visiting committee Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Achievements

• Joseph B. Natowitz has been listed as a noteworthy Chemistry educator, research administrator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Chairman Cub Scout Pack 802, 1973-1975. Vice president College Hills PTO, 1974-1975. Member Agricultural and Mechanical Consolidated School Board, 1975-1978, president, 1977-1978.

President Agricultural and Mechanical Consolidated Band Boosters, 1980-1981. Fellow American Physical Society. Member American Chemical Society (vice chairman division nuclear chemistry and technical 1993, chairman 1994, award in nuclear chemistry 1995), Sigma Xi, Phi Lambda Upsilon.