Background
Darleane Christian was born at home in the small town of Terril, Iowa, daughter of Carl B. and Elverna Clute Christian. Her father was a mathematics teacher and superintendent of schools. Her mother wrote and directed plays.
Darleane Christian was born at home in the small town of Terril, Iowa, daughter of Carl B. and Elverna Clute Christian. Her father was a mathematics teacher and superintendent of schools. Her mother wrote and directed plays.
She is a faculty senior scientist in the Nuclear Science Division of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and a professor in the graduate school at University of California Berkeley. When Darleane Christian was a freshman in college at Iowa State University, she took a required chemistry course taught by Nellie May Naylor, and decided to pursue further study in that field She received her B. South. (1948) and Ph.
Doctorate. (1951) degrees in chemistry (nuclear) from Iowa State University.
She became Division Leader of the Chemistry and Nuclear Chemistry Division (Isotope and Nuclear Chemistry Division) in 1979. She left Los Alamos in 1984 to accept appointments as tenured professor in the Department of Chemistry at University of California-Berkeley and Leader of the Heavy Element Nuclear & Radiochemistry Group at LBNL. Additionally, she helped found the Seaborg Institute for Transactinium Science at LLNL in 1991 and became its first Director, serving until 1996 when she "retired" to become Senior Advisor and Charter Director.
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.