Carol J. Burns
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Carol Jean Burns | |
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| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley Rice University |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Thesis | The coordination chemistry of divalent bis(pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)lanthanide complexes with non-classical ligands (1987) |
Carol Jean Burns is an American chemist who is deputy director of Research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her research is in actinide coordination and organometallic chemistry. She spent a term at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society. She was awarded the American Chemical Society Garvan–Olin Medal in 2021.
Burns earned her undergraduate degree at Rice University, where she majored in chemistry.[1] She moved to the University of California, Berkeley for graduate studies, where she was a Hertz Foundation Fellow. Her research considered divalent lanthanide complexes with non-classical ligands.[2] After completing her doctorate, Burns joined Los Alamos National Laboratory as a J. Robert Oppenheimer postdoctoral fellow.[1]
