• UMR's Jupiter Team, a group of five talented UMR undergraduate students, analyzed data from the Galileo probe to show that Jupiter contains Hydrogen, Helium, and "Strange Xenon" from a different batch of elements than those that formed the Sun.
 
  • Ken Windler, a founding member of UMR's Jupiter Team, assisted with reduction and analysis of data from the Galileo probe into Jupiter's atmosphere. Ken later focused his efforts on Xenon isotope data and showed the presence of "Strange Xenon" in Jupiter, unlike the Xenon in elements that formed the Sun.

    http://web.umr.edu/~om/abstracts2001/windleranalysis.pdf
 
  • Erin Miller, helped analyze nuclear relationships in the “Cradle of the Nuclides” to show that repulsive interactions between neutrons produce stored potential energy in neutron stars, like the one at the core of the Sun. This generates the bulk of the Sun's energy. Hydrogen in the solar wind is "smoke" from this deep-seated nuclear furnace. In its upward journey from the core, Hydrogen is the carrier gas that maintains mass separation in the Sun. H-fusion generates < 38% of the solar luminosity.

    http://web.umr.edu/~om/abstracts2003/jfe-neutronrep.pdf
 
  • Adam Nolte, (BS, ChE, 2001), a founding member of UMR's Jupiter Team in 1998, worked on the reduction and analysis of data from the Galileo probe into Jupiter's atmosphere in 1996. Adam later focused his efforts on Hydrogen and Helium isotope data and showed that these two elements in Jupiter are unlike the Hydrogen and Helium in the early Sun.

    http://web.umr.edu/~om/abstracts2005/Nolte_and_Lietz.pdf
 
  • James-Alan Holt Powers, (1984-2001) entered UMR as a freshman in 1998 on his 14th birthday. Holt was a freshman student in Manuel's General Chemistry class and became interested in nuclear science. He was enamored with the quantitative information contained in the "Cradle of the Nuclides". He died suddenly and unexpectedly soon after his 17th birthday. The paper with UMR students Erin Miller and Aditya Katragada confirming neutron repulsion as an energy source was dedicated to Holt's memory.

    http://web.umr.edu/~om/abstracts2003/jfe-neutronrep.pdf
 
  • Cara Lietz, (BS, ChE, 2000) joined UMR's Jupiter team in 1999 and worked with Adam Nolte on reduction and analysis of data from the Galileo probe into Jupiter's atmosphere. They used isotope data for Hydrogen and Helium to show that these two elements in Jupiter are distinct from those in the early Sun.

    http://web.umr.edu/~om/abstracts2005/Nolte_and_Lietz.pdf
 
 
  • David Gatten replaced Robert Johnson as office manager when Robert graduated in 2002. David reorganized reprint and correspondence files until the end of 2004, when he joined the US Marines.
 
  • Daniel W. Ragland (BS, Chem, 1998), a founding member of UMR's Jupiter Team, compared isotope ratios of Magnesium isotopes in the solar wind and in solar flares to show at the 1998 ACS meeting in Dallas, TX (29 Mar - 2 Apr) that Magnesium isotopes in the Sun are sorted by mass.
 
  • Clark W. Craig (BS, 1977) worked with a team of undergraduate and graduate students collecting environmental samples for analysis of the long-lived fission product, iodine-129, from atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons.

    “Iodine-129 in Missouri rain and milk”, J. Radioanal. Chem. 68 (1982) 233.
 
  • David W. Holman (BS, 1974) used neutron activation analysis, NAA, and stable isotope mass spectrometry to determine I-129 from fall-out of nuclear weapons testing in the atmosphere.

    "Iodine-129 in thyroids of grazing animals," Health Physics 30 (1976) 345.
 
  • James E. Johnson (BS, 1974) worked with the team of graduate and undergraduate students using NAA and stable isotope mass spectrometry to determine I-129 from fall-out of nuclear weapons testing in the atmosphere. Jim returned to Rolla in 1995 and remained a close personal friend of Dr. Manuel and his family until Jim's untimely death on June 20, 2005.

    "Iodine-129 in man, cow and deer", Health Physics 34 (1978) 691.