Paula Cable-Dunlap

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.

Early life and education Cable-Dunlap is from North Carolina. She is the daughter of a nurse and was determined to work in medicine as a child. where she became interested in analytical chemistry and worked in the Imaging Systems Department. This internship inspired her lifelong "obsession" with instrumentation. 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. was used in the Atacama Desert and aboard the Mars rover. She helped launch the Ultra Trace Forensic Science Centre, which develops instrumentation to detect the residual chemical signatures of nuclear materials and reactions.

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