EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:

B.S., Rutgers University, 1951
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Physics), 1956

BRIEF BIO:

After M.I.T., Dr. Temkin was awarded a Fulbright fellowship in l956-57 to Univ.of Heidelberg, Germany. Thereafter he received an NRC/NAS Resident Research Associateship to the Naval Research Lab., '57,'58. He became a civil servant at the National Bureau of Standards (now NIST) 1958-60, and finally he joined NASA in 1960, where he has been ever since. He received a Goddard-Exceptional Performance Award in 1971.

RESEARCH INTEREST:

Atomic physics, with emphasis on long range problems and needs in astrophysics and aeronomy

A. Temkin, "Polarization and exchange effects in the scattering of electrons from atoms....[the method of polarized orbitals)", Phys. Rev. 107, 1004 (1957).

A. Temkin, "Nonadiabatic theory of electron-hydrogen scattering", Phys. Rev. 126, 130 (1962).

A.K. Bhatia and A. Temkin, "Symmetric Euler-angle decomposition of the two-electron fixed nucleus problem", Rev. Mod. Phys. 36, 1050 (1964).

A. Temkin, "The art and science of calculating autoionization" in Autolonization: Astrophysicat, Theoretical atid Laboratory Experimeutal Aspects, edited by A. Temkin (Mono Book Corp., Baltimore, 1966) pp.55-76.

A. Temkin, K.V. Vasavada et al., "Scattering of electrons from [molecules with application to] H2+ [the fixed-nuclei approximation]", Phys. Rev. 160,109 (1967); 186,57 (1969).

E.S. Chang and A. Temkin, "Rotational excitation of diatomic molecules by electron impact [the adiabatic-nuclei approximation]", Phys. Rev. Lett. 23, 57 (1969).

A. Temkin, "A calculational approach to electron impact excitation of ions in hot solar plasmas" GSFC X 602-74-260, Sep.1974.

V.L. Jacobs, A.K. Bhatia, and A. Temkin "Continuous ultraviolet absorption in doubly-excited states of H-", Ap. 3.200, 239 (1975).

N. Chandra and A. Temkin, "Hybrid theory and calculation of e-N2 vibrational excitation" Phys. Rev. A 13, 188 (1976).

A. Temkin, "Effect of blackbody radiation on the threshold for 2-electron photodetachment of H~", Phys. Rev. Al2, 324 (1980).

A. Temkin, "Threshold law for electron-atom impact ionization [the Coulomb-dipole theory]", Phys. Rev. Lett. 49, 365 (1982).

E.C. Sullivan and A. Temkin,"A non-iterative method for solving partial differential eqs. Arising in electron-molecule scattering", Computer Physics Comm, 25, 97 (1982); 71,319 (1992).

A. Temkin, "Autoionization", chapter 25 in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Handbook, edited by G.W.F. Drake (Al.?. Press, Woodbury N.Y., 1996) pp 310-316.

A. Temkin and R. J. Drachman, " Partial wave dispersion relations: Application to electron-atom scatterint," J. Phys. B 33, L505 (2000).