Biography of Meyer Steinberg, Brookhaven National Lab. |
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Biographical Introduction for Meyer Steinberg
Mr. Steinberg is a graduate and professional Chemical Engineer of the Cooper Union School of Engineering and The Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. He worked on the Manhattan District's Atom Bomb Project at Oak Ridge and Los Alamos and then as a Chemical Engineer in the heavy chemical and metallurgical industry. Since 1957 he has been at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. He performed research in the field of radiation chemical processing and chemonuclear reactors. He is an inventor and developer of concrete polymer materials. His research in nuclear energy includes nuclear waste management and safety, the use of fission and fusion reactors for synthetic carbonaceous fuel production and development of accelerator spallator for nuclear fuel production and transmutation of fission product waste and reduction of nuclear weapons materials. His research in fossil and solar energy involves coal conversion, desulfurization, hydropyrolysis, the conversion of biomass and municipal solid waste to clean fuels and greenhouse gas CO2 mitigation technologies. Mr. Steinberg as a Senior Chemical Engineer, was Head of the Process Sciences Division of the Department of Applied Science at Brookhaven National Laboratory and presently is a Consultant to the Department of Advanced Technology. He is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He has over 500 publications and holds 38 patents. He recently co-authored a book entitled "Greenhouse Gas CO2 Mitigation: The Science and Technology", Lewis Press (1999). |