Robert D. Lawson

1926-2015

Biographical sketch

• 1953 Ph.D., Stanford University
• 1953-57 Research Associate, University of California, Berkeley
• 1957-59 Research Associate, University of Chicago
• 1959-66 Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1966-96 Senior Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1996- Resident Associate, Argonne National Laboratory

Visiting appointments

• 1962-63 Visiting Physicist, UKAEA, Harwell, England
• 1967-68 Weizmann Senior Fellow, Weizmann Institute, Israel
• 1972-73 Visiting Professor, State University of New York, Stony Brook
• 1976-77 Nordita Fellow, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

Selected publications

1. Theory of the Nuclear Shell Model
   R. D. Lawson
   (Oxford University Press, N. Y., 1980)

2. Ambiguities in the elastic scattering of 8 MeV neutrons from adjacent nuclei
   R. D. Lawson, P. T. Guenther and A. B. Smith
   Nucl. Phys. A519, 487-508 (1990)

3. Neutron scattering from elemental indium: Optical model and bound-state potential
   S. Chiba, P. T. Guenther, R. D. Lawson, and A. B. Smith
   Phys. Rev. C 42, 2487-2496 (1990)

4. Fast-neutron interaction with elemental zirconium, and the dispersive optical model
   S. Chiba, P. T. Guenther, A. B. Smith, M. Sugimoto, and R. D. Lawson
   Phys. Rev. C 45, 1260-1275 (1992)

Selected previous papers