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Weber, Marvin John was born on February 26, 1932 in Fresno, California, United States. Son of John William and Louise (Grill) Weber.
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Marvin John Weber
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Marvin John Weber, American Physicist. Achievements include patents on yttrium orthoaluminate laser crystals; discovery of bismuth germanate scintillator crystal for detection of high-energy radiation and particles. Recipient International Rectifier -100 award for Industrial Research, 1978, International Conference on Luminescence prize, 1993.
Education
AB, University of California, Berkeley, 1954; Master of Arts, University of California, Berkeley, 1956; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1959.
Career
Principal scientist, Raytheon Company, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1960-1973;
research associate, Stanford (California) U., 1966-1967;
physicist, Lawrence Livermore (California) National Laboratory, 1973-1993;
associate division leader, Lawrence Livermore (California) National Laboratory
transfer assignment, unites states department Energy, Washington, 1984-1985;
physicist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, since 1993. Guest worker National Bureau Standards, Washington, 1984-1985. Consultant BattellePacific N.W. Laboratory, Richland, Washington, 1988-1994, unites states department Energy, Washington, 1986, 92-93, National Science Foundation, Washington, 1973-1975.
Spokesman University of California/National laboratories research facilities at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, 1987-1993.
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Membership
Fellow American Physical Society, Optical Society of America, American Ceramics Society (Morey award 1983). Member Materials Research Society, American Association Crystal Growth, PhiBeta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Connections
Married Pauline Margaret Sikes, February 2, 1957 (divorced October 1987), children: Ann Hilary, Eve Kimberley. Married Shirley Ann Schultz, October 24, 1987.
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