William H Marlow, Ph.D.

Consulting Health Physicist

Education

Ph.D., Physics, University of Texas at Austin, 1973
B.S., Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1966

Experience

1986-Present, Professor (1996-present), Associate Professor (1986-96) Nuclear Engineering Department, Texas A&M University
1985-1986, Research Scientist (Visiting) Civil Engineering Department, Texas A&M University
1975-1986, Assistant Physicist (1975-77), Associate Physicist (1977-80), Physicist (1980-86) Environmental Chemistry Division Department of Applied Science, Brookhaven National Laboratory
1973-1974, Post-Doctoral Research Associate Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Professional Affiliations

Member, Board of Directors of American Association for Aerosol Research
Member, Publicatons Committee of the American Association for Aerosol Research
Member, National Science Foundation Emerging Technologies Initiation Program proposal evaluation panel for proposals on Ultrafine Particle Engineering
Member, Grant Review Panel for Air Chemistry and Physics, Office of Research and Development, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency

Awards and Appointments

Member, Virtual Panel for National Science Foundation Nanotechnology Exploratory Research: Theory and Simulation, March 9, 2004
Member, Peer Review Panel for HEPA Filter Monitoring Project, Diagnostic Instrumentation and Analysis Laboratory, Starkville , MS. Panel appointed by Institute for Regulatory Science for USDOE
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow. Chemical Engineering Department, University of Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan
Wenner Gren Visiting Professor of Solid State Physics, Ångstrom Laboratory of Materials Science, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden - Guest Professor (same)
Faculty Fellow of the College of Engineering , Texas A&M University
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Environmental Medicine, New York University Medical School

Publications and Presentations

"Indoor radon and ultrafine particles." National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program, University of Missouri at Columbia . Participation sponsored by Program
"From atomic clusters to aerosols: science and technology of matter in transiton." Third Intenational Symposium of the Physical Sciences. Instituto Technologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey. Monterrey , Mexico . Participation sponsored by symposium
"Cluster dynamics and thermodynamics for materials processing and climate change research." National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program, University of Missouri at Columbia . Participation sponsored by Program
Marlow, W.H. and Brock, J.R. 1975. Unipolar charging of small aerosol particles. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 50 (1), 32-38
Brock, J.R. and Marlow, W.H. 1975. Charged aerosol particles in air pollution. Environmental Letters 10 (1), 53
Marlow, W.H. 1978. Unipolar aerosol diffusion charging, I: Introduction and charging of high and low dielectric constant monodisperse aerosols by time-invariant ion distributions. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 64 (3), 543-548
Marlow, W. H. 1988. Electrical charge in radon daughter deposition: a critical review. Radiation Protection Dosimetry 24(1/4) , 211-216
Marlow, W.H., and Tanner, R.L. 1976. Diffusion sampling method for ambient aerosol size discrimination with chemical composition determination. Anal. Chem. 48 (13), 1999-2001
Marlow, W.H., Reist, P.C., and Dwiggins, G.A. 1976. Aspects of the performance of the electrical aerosol analyzer under nonideal conditions. J. Aerosol Sci. 7 (6), 457
Marlow, W. H. and Reist, P, C. 1978. Author's reply. J. Aerosol Sci.9
Tanner, R.L., Cederwall, R., Garber, R., Leahy, D., Marlow, W., Meyers, R., Phillips, M., and Newman, L. 1977. Separation and analysis of aerosol sulfate species at ambient concentrations. Atmos, Environ. 11 , 955
Gaffney, J., Sapienza, R., Butcher, T., Krishna , C., Marlow, W., and O'Hare, T., 1980. Soot reduction in diesel engines: A chemical approach. Combustion Sci. and Tech. 24 , 89
Fluckiger, D., Lin, H-B., and Marlow, W.H. 1985. Composition measurement of aerosols of submicrometer particles by phase fluctuation absorption spectroscopy. Applied Optics 24 No. 11, 1668-1681
Clearfield , A., Gadalla, A., Marlow, W., Livingston , W. 1989. Synthesis of ultrafine grain ferrites. J. Am. Ceramic Soc. 72 (10),1789-1792
Yoon, S. C., Marlow, W. H., Hopke, P. K. 1992. Measurement of the effect of SO 2 on the polonium-218 ion mobility spectrum by alpha-track detection. Health Physics 62(1) , 51-57
Kish, L. B., P. Chaoguang, J. Edreth, W. H. Marlow, C. G. Granqvist, S. J. Savage. 2001. In-situ electrical transport measurments and self-organization in gold nanoparticle films during and after deposition. Surface and CoatingsTechnology 142-144 , 1088-1093
Cheng, Y.-S., T. D. Holmes, T. G. George, W. H. Marlow. 2005. Size measurement of plutonium particles from internal sputtering in air. Nuclear Insturmentation and Methods B 234 , 219-225
Kish, Laszlo B., Y. Li, J. L. Solis, W. H. Marlow, R. Vajtai, C-G. Granqvist, V. Lantto, J. M. Smulko. Detecting harmful gases using fluctuation-enhanced sensing with Taguchi sensors.( IEEE Sensor Journal , accepted, 2004)
Marlow, W.H. 1980. Derivation of aerosol collision rates for singular, attractive, contact potentials. J. Chem. Phys. 73 , 6284-6287
Marlow, W.H. 1980. Lifshitz-van der Waals forces in aerosol particle collisions: Introduction; water droplets. J. Chem. Phys. 73, 6288-6295. (also listed under Long-range intermolecular forces including applications in aerosol and cluster collisions)
Marlow, W.H. 1981. Size effects in aerosol particle collisions: The van der Waals potential and collision rates. Surface Sci. 106 , 529-537. (also listed under Long-range intermolecular forces including applications in aerosol and cluster collisions)

Please Note: the above is but a small sampling of the works published and presentations delivered by Dr. Marlow. For a complete listing please contact the webmaster here.

Offices Held

Undergraduate Program Coordinator, Nuclear Engineering Department , Texas A&M University
Faculty Senator, Texas A&M University
Chair of 2001 Awards Committee, American Association for Aerosol Research
Chair, Review Committee of Midwestern Regional Center of National Institute for Global Environmental Change. This is first review ever conducted of NIGEC Regional Center
Associate Editor, Aerosol Science and Technology