Ronald Collé 3891023 156819602 2007-09-10T00:36:24Z LaMenta3 902207 clean up , Typos fixed: the the → the, using [[Project:AutoWikiBrowser|AWB]] '''Ronald Collé''' <!-- (born [[February 11]], [[1946]][[Category:1946 births]] move category down when fact confirmed {{fact|date=May 2007}}) --> is a specialist in nuclear and [[radiochemistry]], radionuclidic [[metrology]], and the development of standards. He has worked at the [[National Institute of Standards and Technology]] ([[NIST]]) from 1976 to 2003 and from 2005 to present, and currently serves as a Research Chemist in the Radioactivity Group of the NIST Physics Laboratory (Ionizing Radiation Division).<ref name="ionbio">{{cite web|url=http://www.bipm.org/cc/CCRI(II)/Allowed/19/CCRI(II)07-07.pdf|title=Ionizing Radiation Division: Radioactivity Group Technical Activities 2006|publisher=[[Bureau International des Poids et Mesures]]|accessdate=2007-09-05}}</ref> Previously, he held research positions at [[Brookhaven National Laboratory]]<!--,--><ref>[http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRC/v9/i6/p2166_1 Phys. Rev. C 9, 2166 - 2170 (1974)]</ref><!-- the [[State University of New York at Albany]]{{fact|date=May 2007}},--> and at the [[University of Maryland, College Park]].<ref>[http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRC/v9/i4/p1568_1 Phys. Rev. C 9, 1568 - 1573 (1974)]</ref> He received a B.Sc in Chemistry from the [[Georgia Institute of Technology]] in 1969, a Ph.D. in Chemistry (Nuclear and Radiochemistry) from [[Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute]] in 1972, move category down when fact confirmed and a M.S. Adm. (Administration of Science and Technology) from [[George Washington University]] in 1979.<ref name="ionbio"/> Ronald Colle and his collaborators have maintained, expanded and improved [[radioactivity]] measurement standards for [[radium]]-226 and [[radon]]-222 to address the requirements to measure these [[nuclide]]s in [[drinking water]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://physics.nist.gov/GenInt/Curie/present.html | title = Present status of national standards | work = NIST }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://physics.nist.gov/GenInt/Curie/certificates.html | title = Modern NIST Certificate | work = NIST }}</ref> R.Colle and collaborators developed methods to analyse and standardize [[brachytherapy]] sources, pellets of radioactive material designed to be implanted in the body at site requiring direct radiation exposure.<ref>"Chemical digestion and radionuclidic assay of TiNi-encapsulated 32P intravascular brachytherapy sources."{{PMID|10214703}}</ref><ref>"National radioactivity standards for beta-emitting radionuclides used in intravascular brachytherapy."{{PMID|9588935}}</ref> An important part of [[metrology]] and standards development is understanding and taking into account uncertainties that are inherent in the instruments or that arise from methodology. Colle co-authored a paper with [[Churchill Eisenhart]] and Harry Ku,<ref>Churchill Eisenhart, Harry H. Ku, and R. Colle, Expression of the Uncertainties of Final Measurement Results: Reprints, NBS Special Publication 644, National Bureau of Standards,Washington, DC (1983).</ref> which was the forerunner of the 1993 [[ISO]] ''Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement''.<ref>Leon Jay Gleser, "Assessing Uncertainty in Measurement", Statistical Science, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Aug., 1998), pp. 277-290</ref> Collé has published over ninety research papers, and from 1999 through 2004 was an associate editor of the ''[[Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology]]''.<ref>{{cite journal | url = http://nvl.nist.gov/pub/nistpubs/jres/107/3/107-3.pdf | title = [[Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology]] Vol. 107, No.3 | date = May - June 2002 | accessdate = 2007-05-06 }}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} == External links == *[http://www.nist.gov/cgi-bin/wwwph/cso.nist.gov?Query=Ronald%20Colle+846 NIST profile] {{DEFAULTSORT:Colle, Ronald}} [[Category:American physicists]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Georgia Institute of Technology alumni]] [[Category:George Washington University alumni]] [[Category:Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni]]