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Rex E. Gerald II
Rex E. Gerald II, PhD Dr. Rex E. Gerald II is a staff chemical physicist and inventor in the Chemical Engineering Division at Argonne National Laboratory. Dr. Gerald was introduced to solid state NMR at the AMOCO Research Center, Naperville, Illinois, under the guidance of Dr. M. Munowitz, author of Coherence in NMR. His thesis research at the University of Illinois at Chicago focused on NMR spectroscopy and dynamics of noble gas clusters of xenon atoms confined to nanoscale cavities in zeolites. His thesis advisor was Prof. C. J. Jameson, a preeminent NMR theorist. At the Max-Planck-Institute for molecular crystal physics in Heidelberg, under the direction of Prof. U. Haeberlen, a notable solid-state NMR pioneer, he applied solid-state NMR methods for measuring the anisotropic shielding and quadrupolar interaction tensors in single crystals of biologically important peptides, and has extended development of visualization techniques for graphically representing these and other second-rank tensors. Under the direction of R. E. Botto (a solid-state NMR spectroscopist and imager) in the Chemistry Division at Argonne, he developed chemical-selective imaging methods for analyzing heterogeneous materials. Presently, as a member of the Catalysis Research group of J. W. Rathke in Argonne's Chemical Engineering Division, he is developing novel NMR devices (high-pressure toroid imaging probes, electrochemical imagers, multi-detector microcoil probes, near-electrode nano probes, etc.). These advanced NMR detectors are currently being used for imaging stochastic and coherent transport processes and oxidation/reduction reactions in diverse materials, including polymer electrolytes, metal alloys, zeolites, macromolecules in supercritical fluids, and nuclear materials. Dr. Gerald has also developed a substantial background in picosecond transient laser spectroscopy and methods for synthetic organic chemistry while at Velsicol Chemicals and Argonne. Throughout his tenure at Argonne, Dr. Gerald has maintained a long-standing interest in developing the next generation of scientific leaders, and has been recognized for his contributions by two student mentor awards. Dr. Gerald was born in El Paso, Texas, and received much of his primary education in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. He has a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Illinois, Chicago.
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