RESUME

 

Oliver K. Manuel

Professor of Nuclear Chemistry

University of Missouri-Rolla

http://www.umr.edu/~om

 

EDUCATION

            1964 - NSF Post-doctoral Fellow, Physics, University of California, Berkeley

1964 - Ph.D., Nuclear Chemistry, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Arkansas

            (some research done in Prof. John Reynolds' laboratory at UC-Berkeley)

            1959 - B.S., Chemistry, Kansas State College, Pittsburg, Kansas

 

ACADEMIC

            2000-present    - Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri-Rolla

            1999-2000       - Interim Chairman of Chemistry, UM-Rolla

1982-1996       - Chairman of Chemistry, UM-Rolla

1982-1983             - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, India

1979-1980       - U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO

            1973-2000       - Professor of Chemistry, UM-Rolla

            1967-1973       - Associate Professor of Chemistry, UM-Rolla

            1964-1967       - Assistant Professor of Chemistry, UM-Rolla

 

HONORS

2002 – Plenary Lecture, Third International Conference on Beyond Standard

Model Physics - BEYOND 2002 in Oulu, FINLAND

1999 – Co-chaired ACS Symposium (with Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg) - "The Origin of

           Elements in the Solar System: Implications of Post-1957 Observations"

            1983 - Fulbright Award, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, India

1980 - Plenary Lecture, 8th National Symposium on Isotope Geochemistry, Ver-

            nadsky  Institute Geochemistry & Analytical Chemistry, Moscow, USSR

            1979 - Special Recognition as Principal Investigator in NASA's Lunar Program

            1968 - Outstanding Research award, UM-Rolla Alumni Association

            1964 – National Science Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship

 

PUBLICATIONS

Author of more than 100 scientific papers, including book reviews, chapters in books, and research papers published in peer-reviewed literature and presented at science conferences in the United States, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, the USSR and Wales.

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

None of these accomplishments in life would have been possible without the kindness of Fate in providing the author with a considerate and supportive wife and children, great teachers, students, friends, and a truly outstanding secretary.  The names of a few of these are given near the end of this resume.  

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• The use of high-sensitivity mass spectrometry to study the origin of the solar system; the distribution of isotopes in meteorites, planets, the moon and the sun; rare nuclear processes, including double-beta decay; the terrestrial distribution of long-lived fission products and chalcogen elements.

 

• Supervised research for 25 M.S. and Ph.D. candidates and numerous under­graduates.  Research supported by the Atom­ic Energy Commission, Department of Energy, The Foundation for Chemical Research, NASA, and NSF.

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS (partial list)

Alpha Chi Sigma honorary chemical society, the American Association for the Advance­ment of Science, the American Astronomical Society, the American Chemical Society, the American Geophysical Union, the Council for Chemical Research, the Fulbright Society, the Geochemical Society of Japan, the Meteoritical Society, the Missouri Academy of Science, Nature, and the Sigma Xi honorary research society.

 

NEWS COVERAGE

            See partial list on web page at http://www.umr.edu/~om

 

PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS (highlights)

 

Chapters in Books

 

O. Manuel, "Origin of Elements in the Solar System", in The Origin of the Elements in the Solar System: Implications of Post 1957 Observations, O. K. Manuel, editor, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, NY, pp. 589-643 (2000).

 

http://www.umr.edu/~om/abstracts2001/origin_solar_system_book.pdf

           

O. Manuel, "Isotope Ratios: The Key to Elemental Abundance and Nuclear Reac­tions in the Sun", in The Origin of the Elements in the Solar System: Implications of Post 1957 Observations, O. K. Manuel, editor, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, NY, pp. 285-293 (2000).

 

http://www.umr.edu/~om/abstracts2001/iso_book.pdf

 

O. K. Manuel and K. Y. Chiou, “Geochemical Measurements of Double-Beta Decay, in Chapter III of Neutrino Mass and Related Topics, S. Kato and T. Ohshima, Editors, World Scientific, Singapore, pp. 178-182 (1988).

 

O. K. Manuel and D. D. Sabu, “Isotopic Anomalies in Meteorites,” in Chapter I of Essays in Nuclear, Geo- and Cosmochemistry, M. W. Rowe, editor, Burgess International Group, Inc., Edina, Minnesota, pp. 1-42 (1988).

 

O. K. Manuel, "Geochemical Measurements of Double Beta Decay," in Chapter III of Nuclear Beta Decays and Neutrino, T. Kotani, H. Ejiri & E. Takasugi, editors, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, pp. 71-80 (1986).

 

O. K. Manuel, "Meteorites," in Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 5th edition, Sybil P. Parker, editor, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, pp. 440-449 (1982).

 

O. K. Manuel, “Noble gases in the Fayetteville meteorite,” Chapter 19, Papers in Memory of Craig Merrihue, Physics Dept, University of California-Berkeley (1971).

 

Reviews

 

O. K. Manuel, A review of the book by David Arnett, Supernovae and Nucleo­syn­thesis: An Investigation of the History of Matter, from the Big Bang to the Present, in American Scientist 85, 478-479 (1997).

 

International Conferences

 

O.Manuel, M.Mozina and Ratcliffe, H., "The Nuclear Cycle that Powers the Stars: Fusion, Gravitational Collapse, and Dissociation" abstract of paper submitted for presentation at the Hirschegg 2006 Workshop on Astrophysics and Nuclear Structure, Hirschegg, Kleinwalsertal, Austria, 15 - 21 January 2006.


http://web.umr.edu/~om/abstracts2006/HirscheggWorkshopAbstract.pdf

 

O. Manuel, S.A.Kamat and M. Mozina. "Isotopes Tell Sun's Origin and Operation", presented at the First Crisis in Cosmology Conference in Moncao, Portugal, 23-25 June 2005.

 

http://web.umr.edu/~om/abstracts2005/IsotopesTellSunsOriginOperation.pdf

 

O. Manuel, "The Sun Is A Magnetic Plasma Diffuser That Sorts Atoms By Mass", presented at the V INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NON-ACCELERATOR NEW PHYSICS in Dubna, Russia, 20-25 June 2005

 

http://web.umr.edu/~om/Overheads/Overheads.htm

 

O. Manuel, “The Need to Measure Low Energy, anti-Neutrinos (En<0.782 MeV) form the Sun”, presented on June 23, 2003 at the IV INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on NON-ACCELERATOR NEW PHYSICS, Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Juliot Curie 6, Dubna, Moscow Region, 141980 RUSSIA

http://web.umr.edu/~om/abstracts2004/anti-neutrinos.pdf

 

O. Manuel and A. Katragada, “The Sun’s origin and composition: Implications from meteorite studies”, presented at the 2002 Conference on Asteroids, Comets and Meteors (ACM 2002), Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, GERMANY, July 28 – August 2, 2002.          

 

http://www.umr.edu/~om/abstracts/ACM-2002.pdf

 

O. Manuel, “The standard solar model versus experimental observations”, Plenary lecture presented at the Third International Conference on Beyond Standard Model Physics - BEYOND2002 in Oulu, FINLAND, June 2-8, 2002.

 

http://www.umr.edu/~om/abstracts/beyond2002.pdf

 

O. Manuel, “Compositional variations in asteroids: A record of the early solar system”, paper presented at Asteroids 2001, from Piazzi to the third millennium, Santa Flavia (near Palermo), ITALY, June 11-15, 2001.

 

            http://www.umr.edu/~om/abstracts2001/ast2001.pdf

 

            O. Manuel, “Solar abundance of the elements”, paper presented at the SOHO-ACE Work­shop 2001 on Solar and Galactic Composition, Bern, SWITZERLAND, March 6-9, 2001.

 

            http://www.umr.edu/~om/soho.prn.pdf

 

O. Manuel, “Isotopic ratios in Jupiter confirm intra-solar diffusion”, paper presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Dublin, IRELAND, July 27-31, 1998.

 

            O. Manuel, J. T. Lee, J. M. D. MacElroy, Bin Li and W. K. Brown, “Origin of our elements and evolution of the solar system”, paper presented at the International Conference on Isotopes in the Solar System, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, INDIA, November 11-14, 1997.

 

O. K. Manuel, J. T. Lee, J. M. D. MacElroy, B. Li and W. K. Brown, “Origin of the elements and the solar system”, abstract 25.03 of paper presented at the 189th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Toronto, CANADA, January 13, 1997.

 

W. K. Brown, J. T. Lee, Bin Li, J. M. D. MacElroy and O. K. Manuel, “Origin of the elements and evolution of planetary systems”, paper presented at the Washington University International Conference on Pre-solar Grains, St. Louis, MO, October 31, 1996.

 

O. K. Manuel, “Geochemical measurements of double-beta decay”, paper presented at the 14th Europhysics Conference, Bratislava, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, October 24, 1990.

 

O. K. Manuel and K. Y. Chiou, “Geochemical measurements of double-beta decay”, paper presented at the INS International Symposium on Neutrino Mass & Related Topics, Tokyo, JAPAN, March 16-18, 1988.

 

W. J. Lin and O. K. Manuel, “Radio- and fissio-genic xenon in Navajo, New Mexico well gas”, paper presented at the JAPAN-U.S. Seminar on Terrestrial Rare Gases, Yellowstone National Park, WY, September 2-7, 1986.

 

O. K. Manuel, “Geochemical measurements of bb-decay”, paper presented at the International Symposium on Beta Decays and Neutrinos, Osaka, JAPAN, June 11-13, 1986.

 

O. K. Manuel, “Intra-solar diffusion”, paper presented at the 12th International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics, Sendai, JAPAN, June 3-8, 1986.

 

O. K. Manuel, “Additional evidence of local element synthesis: Chemical and isotopic heterogeneities in the Sun and its planetary system”, paper presented at the International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Symposium on Nuclear Cosmochemistry and Meteorites, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 1984.

 

S. Ramadurai and O. K. Manuel, “The origin of Neon-E”, paper presented at the In­ternational Conference on Isotopic Ratios in the Solar System, Paris, FRANCE, June 1984.

 

O. K. Manuel, “The need for isotopic data on refractory elements in the solar wind”, paper given at the Workshop on Past and Present Solar Radiation: The Record in Meteoritic and Lunar Regolith Material, Mainz, GERMANY, September 1983.

 

O. K. Manuel and Golden Hwaung, “Solar abundance of the elements, paper presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Mainz, GERMANY, September 1983.

 

J. D. Obradovich, M. Tatsumoto, O. K. Manuel, H. Mehnert, M. Domenick and T. Wildman, “K-Ar and K-Ca dating of sylvite from the late Permian Salado Formation, New Mexico.  Implications regarding stability of evaporite minerals”, paper given at The Fifth Inter­national Conference on Geochronology, Cosmochronology and Isotope Geology, Nikko, JAPAN, June 27-July 2, 1982.

 

G. Hwaung and O. K. Manuel, “On the occurrence of terrestrial-type xenon in meteoritic troilite”, paper given at The Fifth International Conference on Geochronology, Cosmochron­ology and Isotope Geology, Nikko, JAPAN, June 27-July 2, 1982.

 

O. K. Manuel, “Isotopic and elemental heterogeneities in meteorites: Evidence of local element synthesis”, Plenary lecture at the 8th National Symposium on Isotope Geochemistry, Moscow, USSR, November 1980.

 

L. L. Oliver, R. V. Ballad, J. F. Richardson and O. K. Manuel, “Correlated anomalies of tellurium and xenon in Allende”, paper given at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Heidelberg, GERMANY, September 1979.

 

R. V. Ballad, L. L. Oliver, R. G. Downing and O. K. Manuel, “Isotopically anomalous tellurium accompanies isotopic anomalous components of heavy noble gases in Allende”, Fourth International Conference on Geochronology, Cosmochronology and Isotope Geology, Aspen, CO, August 1978.

 

R. V. Ballad, L. L. Oliver, R. G. Downing and O. K. Manuel, “Nucleogenetic heterogeneities in the chemical and isotopic abundances of our elements”, 41st Annual Meeting, Meteoritical Society, Sudbury, CANADA, August 1978.

 

O. K. Manuel, “Xenology: A review on isotopic anomalies in element no. 54”, 175th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, March 1978  (Co-chair and organizer of the Nuclear Applications Award Symposium: Nuclear and Cosmological Chemistry).

 

O. K. Manuel, “Noble gas anomalies: Elemental and isotopic evidence of a local supernova”, paper presented at Protostars and Planets, Tucson, AZ, January 1978.

 

O. K. Manuel, “Comparison of terrestrial and meteoritic noble gases”, U.S./Japan joint seminar on Rare Gas Abundance and Isotopic Constraints on the Origin and Evolu­tion of the Earth's Atmosphere, Hakone National Park, JAPAN, June 1977.

 

O. K. Manuel, “Key issues in xenology: The main issues and where they are lead­ing us today”, Workshop on Isotopic Abundance Anomalies, Montgomery, WALES, August 1976  (Chairman of session on xenology).

 

PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS (by decade)

 

Fifth Decade Publications (2001-present)

           

O. Manuel, W. A. Myers, Y. Singh and M. Pleess, "The Oxygen to Carbon Ratio in the Solar Interior", Journal of Fusion Energy, Vol.23, No.1(2005) pages 55-62.

 

http://web.umr.edu/~om/abstracts2005/Oxygen_to_Carbon_Ratio.pdf

 

O. Manuel, M. Pleess, Y. Singh and W. A. Myers, " Nuclear Systematics: Part IV. Neutron-capture cross sections and solar abundance", Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, Vol. 266, No. 2 (2005) 159–163

 

http://web.umr.edu/~om/abstracts2005/Fk01.pdf

 

O. Manuel, W. A. Myers, Y. Singh and M. Pleess, "Solar Abundance of Elements from Neutron-Capture Cross Sections", The 36th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC), Houston, Texas, March 14-18, 2005.

 

http://web.umr.edu/~om/abstracts2005/LunarAbstract.pdf

 

O. Manuel, W. A. Myers, Y. Singh and M. Pleess, "An Iron rich Sun and its source of energy", Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Nuclei in the CosmosVancouver, BC, Canada, July 19-23, 2004.

 

http://web.umr.edu/~om/abstracts2005/IronRichSun.pdf

 

O. Manuel, "Comment on Iron-60 in the Early Solar System", submitted to, Science, June 6, 2004.

 

http://web.umr.edu/~om/abstracts2004/ReplyHester.pdf

 

O. Manuel and A. Katragada, "Is there a deficit of solar neutrinos?", Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Neutrino Oscillations, Venice, Italy, 3-5 December 2003 (in press, 2004).

 

http://web.umr.edu/~om/abstracts2004/om-solar-neutrino.pdf

 

O. Manuel, "The structure of the solar core", Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Beyond Standard Model Physics - BEYOND 2003 (IOP, Bristol, editor: H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus) in press (2004).

 

http://web.umr.edu/~om/abstracts2003/beyond03_structure_soler_core.pdf

 

O. Manuel,  The Need To Measure Low Energy, Anti-Neutrinos (En < 0.782 MeV) From The Sun,”  Physics of Atomic Nuclei, in press, 2003.

 

http://web.umr.edu/~om/abstracts2004/anti-neutrinos.pdf

 

Oliver K. Manuel,  Nuclear Clustering and Interactions Between Nucleons”  Quantum Information and Computation, (in press, 2003)

 

http://www.umr.edu/~om/abstracts2004/nuclearclustering.pdf

.

O. K. Manuel, B. W. Ninham and S. E. Friberg, “Superfluidity in the solar interior: Implications for solar eruptions and climate”, Journal of Fusion Energy 21, 193-198 (in press, 2003).

 

http://www.umr.edu/~om/abstracts2003/jfe-superfluidity.pdf

 

O. Manuel, E. Miller and A. Katragada, “Confirmation of repulsion between neutrons as a major source of energy”, Journal of Fusion Energy 20, 197-201 (in press, 2003).

 

http://www.umr.edu/~om/abstracts2003/jfe-neutronrep.pdf

 

O. Manuel and Stig Friberg, “Composition of the solar interior: Information from isotope ratios”, Proceedings of the SOHO 12 / GONG+ 2002 Conference on Local and Global Helioseismology: The Present and the Future, 27 October-1 November 2002, Big Bear Lake, CA, U.S.A.  (ESA SP-517, editor: Huguette Lacoste) pp. 345-348 (2003).

 

http://www.umr.edu/~om/abstracts2002/soho-gong2002.pdf

 

O. Manuel, “The standard solar model versus experimental observations”, BEYOND 2002: Pro­ceedings of the Third International Conference on Physics Beyond the Standard Model Physics - Accelerator, Non-Accelerator and Space Approaches in the New Millenium, June 3-7, 2002, University of Oulu, Finland (IOP, Bristol, editor: H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus) pp. 307-316 (2003).

 

http://www.umr.edu/~om/abstracts/beyond2002.pdf

 

O. Manuel and A. Katragada, “The Sun’s origin and composition: Implications from meteorite studies”, Proceedings of Asteroids, Comets and Meteors (ACM 2002), 29 July - 2 August 2002, Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany (ESA SP-500, editor: Barbara Warmbein) pp. 787-790 (2002).

 

http://www.umr.edu/~om/abstracts/ACM-2002.pdf

 

            O. Manuel, C. Bolon and A Katragada, “Why the model of a hydrogen-filled Sun is obsolete”, Meteoritics and Planet. Sci. 37, A92 (2002).

 

O. Manuel, Cynthia Bolon and Max Zhong, “Nuclear systematics: III. The source of solar luminosity”, J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem. 252, 3-7 (2002).

 

http://www.umr.edu/~om/abstracts2001/nuc_sym3.pdf

 

            O. Manuel, C. Bolon and Prashanth Jangam, “Nuclear systematics: II. The cradle of the nuclides”, J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem. 251, 417-422 (2002).

 

http://www.umr.edu/~om/abstracts2001/nuc_sym2.pdf

 

            O. Manuel and C. Bolon, “Nuclear systematics: I. Solar abundance of the elements”, J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem. 251, 381-385 (2002).

 

http://www.umr.edu/~om/abstracts2001/nuc_sym1.pdf

 

            O. Manuel, C. Bolon, A. Katragada and M. Insall, “Attraction and repulsion of nucleons: Sources of stellar energy”, J. Fusion Energy 19, 93-98 (2001).

 

http://www.umr.edu/~om/abstracts/jfeinterbetnuc.pdf

 

            H. Busemann, W. R. Binns, C. Chiappini, G. Gloecker, P. Hoppe, D. Kirilova, R. A. Leske, O. K. Manuel, R. A. Mewaldt, E. Möbius, R. Weiler, R. C. Wiens, R. F. Wimmer-Schweingruber and N. E. Yanasak, “Applications of abundance data and requirements for cosmochemical modeling” in Proceedings of the 2001 SOHO-ACE Workshop, CP598, Solar and Galactic Composition (R. F Wimmer-Schweingruber, editor) 357-379 (2001).

 

            O. Manuel, “The origin of the solar system with an iron-rich sun”, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 33, number 4, page 1526 (2001).

 

            C. Bolon [Manuel’s student], “Repulsion and attraction between nucleons: Sources of energy for an iron-rich Sun and for first generation stars”, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 33, number 4, page 1526 (2001).

 

            O. Manuel, C. Bolon, A. Katragada & P. Jangam, "The sun's origin, composition and source of energy", in Lunar and Planetary Science XXIX, Abstract 1041, available as 1041-pdf from Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX (CD-ROM, 2001)

 

http://www.umr.edu/~om/lpsc.prn.pdf

 

            O. Manuel, B. Ninham and S. Friberg, “Prints of a supernova at the birth of the solar system and in the present Sun”, invited lecture to be presented at the Supernovae 2003 International Conference, Budapest, HUNGARY, September 30-October 4, 2003.

 

O. Manuel, “The structure of the solar core”, invited lecture to be presented at the BEYOND THE DESERT `03 Conference on Physics Beyond the Standard Model, Castle Ringberg, GERMANY, June 9-14, 2003.

 

http://www.umr.edu/~om/abstracts2003/beyond03_structure_soler_core.pdf

 

A. Katragada, M. Scheets and O. Manuel, “What’s the matter with anti-matter?”, abstract # 110  to be presented at the 202nd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Nashville, TN,  May 25-29, 2003.

 

Oliver Manuel and Aditya Katragada, “The interior of the Sun”, abstract # 109 to be presented at the 202nd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Nashville, TN,  May 25-29, 2003.

 

A. Katragada and O. Manuel, “What’s the matter with anti-matter?”, to be presented at the 2003 Missouri Academy of Sciences Meeting, Warrensburg, MO, April 19, 2003.

 

O. Manuel and A. Katragada, “The Sun’s origin, composition, and source of energy”, to be presented at the 2003 Missouri Academy of Sciences Meeting, Warrensburg, MO, April 19, 2003.

 

Aditya Katragada and Oliver Manuel, “What’s the matter with anti-matter?”, to be presented at the 33rd Mid-America Astrophysics Conference, Linda Hall Library, Kansas City, MO, April 11-12, 2003.

 

            Cynthia Bolon and Oliver Manuel, “The interior of the Sun”, to be presented at the 33rd Mid-America Astrophysics Conference, Linda Hall Library, Kansas City, MO, April 11-12, 2003.

 

            Oliver Manuel and Aditya Katragada, “ The sun’s origin, composition, and source of energy”, Log # 20070 to be presented at the meeting of the American Physical Society, Philadelphia, PA, April 5-8, 2003.

 

            Aditya Katragada and Oliver Manuel, “Symmetry between matter and anti-matter”, Log # 10064 to be presented at the meeting of the American Physical Society, Philadelphia, PA, April 5-8, 2003.

 

Erin Miller [Manuel’s student], “Repulsion between nucleons: Its role in solar energy”, presented at the Student Research Conference of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, Galveston, TX, USA, November 16,  2002.

 

http://www.umr.edu/~om/abstracts2003/jfe-neutronrep.pdf

 

O. Manuel, Erin Miller and Aditya Katragada, “The composition of the Sun”, presented at the Annual Meeting of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, Galveston, TX, USA, November 15-17,  2002.

 

O. Manuel and Stig Friberg, “Composition of the solar interior: Information from isotope ratios”, presented at the SOHO 12 / GONG+ 2002 Meeting on Local and Global Helioseismology, Big Bear Lake, CA, USA, October 27 – November 1, 2002.

 

http://www.umr.edu/~om/abstracts2002/soho-gong2002.pdf

 

O. Manuel and A. Katragada, “The Sun’s origin and composition: Implications from meteorite studies”, paper presented at the 2002 Conference on Asteroids, Comets and Meteors, Berlin, GERMANY, July 28 – August 2, 2002.            

 

http://www.umr.edu/~om/abstracts/ACM-2002.pdf

 

O. Manuel, “The standard solar model versus experimental observations”, paper presented at the Third International Conference on Beyond Standard Model Physics - BEYOND2002 in Oulu, FINLAND, June 2-8, 2002.

 

http://www.umr.edu/~om/abstracts/beyond2002.pdf

 

            O. Manuel, “The composition of the Sun and its planetary disk from stable iso­tope mass spectrometry”, abstract #175 presented at the 35th Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Fairfax, VA, USA, May 28-30, 2002.

 

            O. Manuel, C. Bolon and A. Katragada, “The Sun’s origin and source of energy”, presented at the 32nd Mid-America Astrophysics Conference, Linda Hall Library, Kansas City, MO, April 12-13, 2002.

 

            O. Manuel, “Why the Model of a Hydrogen-filled Sun is Obsolete”, Foundation for Chemical Research luncheon press briefing for AAS presentations, The Willard Inter- Continental Hotel, Washington, DC, January 7, 2002.

 

            http://www.umr.edu/~om/abstracts2002/AASWashington2002.pdf

 

            O. Manuel, “The origin of the solar system with an iron-rich sun”, abstract 146.01 of paper presented at the 199th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Washington, DC, January 7-10, 2002.

 

http://www.umr.edu/~om/abstracts2002/AASWashington2002.pdf

 

            C. Bolon, [Manuel’s student] “Repulsion and attraction between nucleons: Sources of energy for an iron-rich Sun and for first generation stars”, abstract 146.02D of paper presented at the 199th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Washington, DC, January 7-10, 2002.

           

            O. Manuel, “Compositional variations in asteroids: A record of the early solar system” presented at Asteroids 2001, from Piazzi to the third millennium, June 11-15, 2001, Santa Flavia (near Palermo), Italy.  Abstract is published in Asteroids 2001 - from Piazzi to the third millennium, pp. 52-53 (Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, Palermo, Italy).

 

O. Manuel, C. Bolon, M. Zhong and P. Jangam, “The Sun’s origin, composition and source of energy”, Abstract 1041 presented at the 32nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX, March 12-16, 2001, LPI Contribution 1080, ISSN No. 0161-5297 (2001).

 

            O. Manuel, “Solar abundance of the elements” presented at the SOHO-ACE Workshop 2001 on Solar and Galactic Composition, March 6-9, 2001, Bern, Switzerland.  Abstract is published in Book of Abstracts for the SOHO-ACE Workshop 2001 on Solar and Galactic Composition, pp. 21-22 (Physikalisches Institut of the Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland).

 

O. Manuel, “The standard solar model versus experimental observations”, Abstract 56.09, presented at the 197th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, San Diego, CA January 7-11, 2001.

 

Fourth Decade Publications (1991-2000)

 

            O. Manuel, “The standard solar model versus experimental observations”, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 32, number 4, page 1498 (2000).

 

            O. Manuel, “Solar abundance of the elements”, Meteoritics & Planet. Sci. 35, A101-A102 (2000).

 

O. Manuel, "Conceptional problems with remote element synthesis," in Isotopes in Earth & Planetary Sciences (Prof. K. Gopalan Festscrift volume, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore) Y. J. B. Rao, A. Kumar and T. V. Sivaraman, editors, Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Earth Planet. Sci.) 109, 195-203 (2000).

 

            O. Manuel, "Isotope Ratios: The Key to Elemental Abundances and Nuclear Reactions in the Sun", in The Origins of the Elements in the Solar System: Implications of Post 1957 Observations, O. K. Manuel, Editor, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, NY, pp. 285-293 (2000).

 

O. Manuel, "Origin of Elements in the Solar System", in The Origins of the Elements in the Solar System: Implications of Post 1957 Observations, O. K. Manuel, Editor, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, NY, pp. 589-643 (2000).

           

O. Manuel, "Origin of the solar system and its chemical elements", in Lunar & Planetary Science XXIX, Abstract #1974, (CD-ROM) Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX (1998).

 

O. Manuel, "Isotopic ratios in Jupiter confirm intrasolar diffusion", Meteoritics & Planetary Science 33, A97 (1998).

 

O. K. Manuel, J. T. Lee, D. E. Ragland, J. M. D. MacElroy, Bin Li and Wilbur Brown, "Origin of the Solar System and its elements", Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 238, nos. 1-2, 213-225 (1998).

 

O. K. Manuel, D. Ragland, K. Windler, J. Zirbel, L. Johannes, and A. Nolte,  “Strange isotope ratios in Jupiter”, Bulletin American Astronomical Society 30, 852-853 (1998).          

 

            O. Manuel, K. Windler, A. Nolte, L. Johannes, J. Zirbel and D. Ragland, "Strange xenon in Jupiter", Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 238, nos. 1-2, 119-121 (1998).

 

            J. T. Lee, B. Li and O. K. Manuel, "On the signature of local element synthesis",  Comments on Astrophysics 18, no. 6, 335-345 (1997).

 

            O. K. Manuel, J. T. Lee, J. M. D. MacElroy, Bin Li and Wilbur Brown, "Origin of elements and evolution of planetary systems", Meteoritics and Planetary Science, submitted February 1, 1997.

 

            J. T. Lee, B. Li and O. K. Manuel, "Xenon isotope record of nucleosynthesis and the early solar system:, Chinese Science Bulletin, vol. 42, issue 9, 752-756 (1997).