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Jeff C. Bryan was born in Minnesota and raised in California, and believes that his odd childhood mixture of Jell-O™ salad and reticence in a free and open society have caused his various personality quirks. He earned an A.B. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley with emphasis on organic chemistry and Scandinavian studies. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Washington studying inorganic chemistry under the supervision of Jim Mayer. His thesis presented a new chemical reaction, the oxidative addition of multiple bonds to low-valent tungsten. He then spent a year of postdoctoral work with Warren Roper at Auckland University investigating iridium-carbon multiple bonds.He spent five years at Los Alamos National Laboratory, initially as a postdoctoral fellow, then as a staff member. Under the supervision of Al Sattleberger, he initiated a modestly successful research program synthesizing new compounds of technetium. He then spent eight years at Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a crystallographer in Bruce Moyer’s chemical separations group. The major group project during that time was development of a process to separate Cs-137 from defense wastes. He joined the chemistry faculty of the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse in 2002, where, despite his best efforts, he has been promoted to full professor. He currently teaches nuclear and general chemistry courses. His scholarship focuses on making nuclear science more accessible to students with limited science and math backgrounds. As part of this effort, he has authored a textbook titled "Introduction to Nuclear Science," and coauthored a lab manual titled "Experiments in Nuclear Science." He is also available to speak to various groups on nuclear science.

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