THE FRONTIERS OF MINING GEOPHYSICS

Geophysics ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 878-886 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. H. Ward ◽  
R. E. Campbell ◽  
J. D. Corbett ◽  
G. W. Hohmann ◽  
C. K. Moss ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Salt Lake ◽  
Salt Lake City ◽  
State University ◽  
Nonrenewable Resources ◽  
Pennsylvania State University ◽  
National Science ◽  
Critical Problems ◽  
Lake City ◽  
Research Frontiers

The RANN Division (Research Applied to National Needs) of the National Science Foundation has embarked upon a program of encouragement and sponsorship of research on exploration for and exploitation of nonenergy nonrenewable resources. To define critical problems requiring research, RANN is sponsoring a series of workshops wherein prominent members of industry, academia, and government assemble to debate the issues and produce lists of subjects requiring research. The first workshop in this series, entitled “Workshop on Research Frontiers in Exploration for Nonrenewable Resources”, was held at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, October 11 to 13, 1976. The second workshop, “Geophysics Applied to Detection and Delineation of Nonenergy Nonrenewable Resources”, reported here, was held in Salt Lake City, Utah, December 6 to 8, 1976.

My Life With Erwin: The Beginning of an Atom-Probe Legacy

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 274-279
Author(s):  
John A. Panitz
Keyword(s):  
Field Emission ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Atom Probe ◽  
Single Atom ◽  
National Bureau ◽  
State University ◽  
Pennsylvania State University ◽  
Probe Field ◽  
National Science ◽  
Field Ion Microscope

AbstractThe atom-probe field ion microscope was introduced in 1967 at the 14th Field Emission Symposium held at the National Bureau of Standards (now, NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The atom-probe field ion microscope was, and remains, the only instrument capable of determining “the nature of one single atom seen on a metal surface and selected from neighboring atoms at the discretion of the observer”. The development of the atom-probe is a story of an instrument that one National Science Foundation (NSF) reviewer called “impossible because single atoms could not be detected”. It is also a story of my life with Erwin Wilhelm Müller as his graduate student in the Field Emission Laboratory at the Pennsylvania State University in the late 1960s and his strong and volatile personality, perhaps fostered by his pedigree as Gustav Hertz’s student in the Berlin of the 1930s. It is the story that has defined by scientific career.

Projects

1988 ◽  
Vol 81 (8) ◽  
pp. 695-700
Keyword(s):  
School Districts ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Classroom Teaching ◽  
State University ◽  
Pennsylvania State University ◽  
Teacher Nominations ◽  
National Science ◽  
Outstanding Teacher

During the summer of 1987, the first part of a National Science Foundation honors workshop for secondary school mathematics teachers was conducted at the Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg. The objective of the workshop was to introduce select· ed teachers to the concepts and techniques of mathematical modeling and to encourage and aid them in actually preparing modeling exercises for incorporation into their classroom teaching. Through a system of planned networking, their experiences are shared with colleagues in the region. The thirty-five participants from the southcentral Pennsylvania region were selected on the basis of outstanding teacher nominations by their school districts.

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