He'd been an acclaimed explorer, a nuclear physicist and a war hero, or so he said.
However, Buchanan's position as head of the party is being challenged by Perot loyalists, who back a different candidate -- former nuclear physicist John Hagelin.
Frank Barnaby, a respected nuclear physicist and weapons expert, says that a version of the compound with some military application may have been developed in the Soviet Union.
"In this day and age, no one should be allowed to possess nuclear-weapons-usable material without providing an armed defense of that material, " said Edwin Lyman, a nuclear physicist with the Union of Concerned Scientists.
In order to convince other nations not to go nuclear, this trend has to be reversed, argues Sidney Drell, a nuclear physicist who has been at the center of US nuclear policy for many years, now at Stanford University.
Buchholz, a physicist and a nuclear engineer, is an expert at something called accelerator mass spectrometry, an extraordinarily precise method of determining the chemical composition of materials.
They are known as fermions, after Enrico Fermi, the physicist who built the first nuclear reactor, and who also gave his name to Fermilab, a particle-physics laboratory near Chicago.
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Bernard Eastlund, a physicist and veteran of the American nuclear industry, has proposed an ingenious way to deal with these nuclear leftovers.
Professor Schopper, a former Director-General of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), is a world-renowned physicist who is one of the founding fathers of SESAME and has provided remarkable leadership for the project for very nearly 10 years.
Samuel Ting, the project leader, is a Nobel-prize winning physicist associated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN.
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