Paula Cable-Dunlap
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Paula Cable-Dunlap | |
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 Cable-Dunlap in 2021 | |
| Alma mater | Western Carolina University Clemson University |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Oak Ridge National Laboratory Savannah River National Laboratory DuPont |
| Thesis | Development of radio frequency powered glow discharge devices for applications in mass spectrometry (1995) |
Paula Cable-Dunlap is an American chemist who is an Oak Ridge National Laboratory Corporate Fellow. She develops protocols and analytical techniques for nuclear nonproliferation.
Cable-Dunlap is from North Carolina. She is the daughter of a nurse and was determined to work in medicine as a child.[1] She studied chemistry at Western Carolina University, and was an intern at DuPont,[2] where she became interested in analytical chemistry and worked in the Imaging Systems Department. This internship inspired her lifelong "obsession" with instrumentation.[1] She was a doctoral researcher at Clemson University, where she started to work in nuclear science. Her doctorate developed RF-powered discharge devices for use in mass spectrometry.[3][4] During her doctorate, she was awarded funding from the United States Department of Energy to characterize glass made from vitrified radioactive waste. Her electrochemical method avoided the need for toxic acids and created a plasma that could be sampled.[1]
