Donald R. Olander is an emeritus professor of

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and the James Fife Chair in Engineering at the

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Biography

Olander received his A.B. from

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in 1953 and B.S. in 1954. He then received his Sc.D. from the

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. He wrote his dissertation on the reprocessing of nuclear fuels using the

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method. He joined the Berkeley faculty in 1958 and moved to Berkeley's nuclear engineering department in 1961 until his retirement in 2008. His research has focused on the chemical aspects of nuclear materials. Olander was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2000 "for research on nuclear materials including nuclear fuel element behavior in power reactors." He is a fellow of the American Nuclear Society.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Olander, Donald R. Living people Year of birth missing (living people) University of California, Berkeley faculty Columbia College (New York) alumni Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering