Robert Schmieder received his formal education (all degrees in physics) at
Occidental
College
(B.A, 1963), Caltech (B.S., 1963), and
Columbia
University
(M.A., 1965, PhD, 1968. He then came to LBL as a postdoc, where he used the HILAC to study the properties of 1- and 2-electron heavy ions. He then obtained a position as a member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, where he spent the next 25 years. At Sandia he carried out research on laser spark spectroscopy, combustion physics and chemistry, tritium tracers in hydrocarbons, production of highly stripped heavy ions, plasma physics, collective dynamics, and nanotechnology. In 1997 he left Sandia to start a company, NanoLogic. He has published about 100 technical journal papers and four patents. Outside of physics, he has carried out numerous scientific expeditions to remote oceanic sites, and has authored seven books (including one scientific biography) based on those expeditions. He is honored with four named species of plants and animals, and by an oceanic site. |