Background
Diamond, Richard Martin was born on January 7, 1924 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Diamond, Richard Martin was born on January 7, 1924 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Bachelor of Science, University of California at Los Angeles, 1947; Doctor of Philosophy in Nuclear Chemistry, University of California Berkeley, 1951.
Instructor chemistry, Harvard University, 1951-1954;
assistant professor, Cornell Univercity, 1954-1958;
member senior staff, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, since 1958;
senior scientist emeritus, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, since 1995. Member United States Physics delegate to Russia, 1966, review committee physics division Oak Ridge Laboratory, 1972-1974, Department of Energy review committee Brookhaven (n, gamma) Facility and Isotope Separator, 1983, 8pi Gamma Spect. Committee, Chalk River, Canada, 1983, advising committee Indiana Cyclotron Facility, 1980-1983, Tandem-Linac Facility Argonne National Laboratory, 1983-1986, Holifield Research Facility,1988-1990, Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility, 1994-1997.
Chairman Gordon Conference on Nuclear Chemistry, 1965, Conference on Ion Exch., 1969, review committee UNISOR, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1974-1975, subcommittee high spin and nuclei far from stability Department Energy-National Science Foundation, 1983. Visiting fellow Japan Society for Promotion of Science, 1981. Co-organizer International Conference Nuclear Physics,1980, workshop on nuclear str., 1986, workshop National Gamma-Ray Facility, 1987.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society (shared Tom W. Bonner award 1980). Member American Chemical Society (award in nuclear chemistry 1993).
Divorced; 4 children.
