Autor/-in: Olander Donald

Donald R. Olander has an A. B. in chemistry and a B. S. in chemical engineering from Columbia University and a Ph. D. in chemical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). During the earlier era in the field of nuclear engineering when he was at MIT, Olander wrote his doctoral dissertation on the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuels via solvent extraction. centrifuges and included an article in the Scientific American in 1978. Olander's other major contribution to science was a paper entitled "The Large Cake-Cutting Problem," in which he presented a mathematical method for cutting large cakes that insured equal servings for all. It was published in the Journal of Irreproducible Results. In 1999, a collection of papers written for the occasion by his colleagues in the field of nuclear materials, former students, and postdocs was published in a special issue of the Journal of Nuclear Materials in his honor. In 2000, Professor Olander was elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering. He will retire in July 2008 after fifty years at the University of California.