Background
Pearlstein, Robert M. was born on October 16, 1937 in New York City. Son of Joseph and Sylvia (Leibow) Pearlstein.
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Robert M. Pearlstein
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Bachelor of Arts in Physics, Harvard University, 1960; Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, U. Maryland., 1966.
Career
Physicist Institute Muscle Research, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 1962-1963;
research assistant, public health service fellow, U. Maryland., College Park, 1963-1966;
National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow biology division, Oak Ridge (Tennessee) National Laboratory, 1966-1967;
member research staff biology division, Oak Ridge (Tennessee) National Laboratory, 1967-1976;
leader photosynthesis group biology division, Oak Ridge (Tennessee) National Laboratory, 1972-1975;
coordinator solar energy research, Oak Ridge (Tennessee) National Laboratory, 1975-1977;
member research staff chemistry division, Oak Ridge (Tennessee) National Laboratory, 1975-1978;
lecturer Oak Ridge Graduate School biomedical Sciences, U. Tennessee, 1969-1978;
senior research scientist, Battelle Columbus (Ohio) laboratories, 1978-1982;
professor, chairman physics, Indiana U.-Purdue University, Indianapolis, 1983-1990;
professor physics, Indiana U.-Purdue University, Indianapolis, since 1983;
Argonne fellow, Argonne (Illinois) National Laboratory, since 1994. Scholar Harvard Club Washington, 1955-1956. Junior engineer Baird-Atomic, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958-1960.
Physicist National Bureau Standards, Washington, 1960-1961. Teaching assistant U. Maryland., Colleg Park, 1962. Predoctoral fellow Public Health Svc., 1965-1966.
Postdoctoral fellow National Science Foundation, 1966-1967. Chairman organizing committee International Conference on Photosynthetic Unit, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, 1969-1970. Secretary, treasurer photochemistry and photobiology group Biophysics Society, 1970-1971.
Visiting scientist Swiss Federal Institute Technology, Zurich, summers, 1984, 85. Lecturer Bat-Sheva summer school on photosynthesisWeizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel, 1988. Faculty research participant Argonne National laboratories, summers, 1992, 93.
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Membership
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society (chemical division, biological physics division, biophysics lecturer Ohio State section Fall meeting 1969, publications committee division biological physics 1975-1978, program committee division biological physics 1975-1976, exec.com. division biological physics 1982-1985, fellowship committee division biological physics since 1990, Biological Physics prize 1994). Member Biophysics Society, American Society Photobiology, Sigma Xi.
Connections
Married Linda Ellen Schecter, June 19, 1960. Children: Daniel A., Deborah N.
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American