Rolland Otis Keeling, Jr.

b. 13 August 1925, Hillsboro, IN
d. 13 October 2000, Houghton, MI

A.B. Wabash College, 1950
M.S. Penn State, 1952
Ph.D. Penn State, 1954

Research Physicist, Gulf Research and Development, Pittsburgh 1954-1960
Assoc. Prof. Physics, MCMT 1961-1963
Prof. Physics, MCMT/MTU, 1963-1985

Physics Department Head 1978-1985
Member Grace United Church, American Legion
Sigma Pi Sigma, Phi Beta Kappa
Served in Army 1943-1946
Bowled, with wife Esther, in MTU Faculty/Staff Bowling League

Publications

"A Low Temperature X-Ray Goniometer for Structural Studies of Crystal Transitions," R. O. Keeling and R. Pepinsky, Rev. Sci. Instr. 24, 1087, (1953).

"An X-ray diffraction study on the transition in NH₄H₂PO₄ at 148^oK," R.O. Keeling, Jr., and R. Pepinsky, Z. Kristallogr. 106, 236 (1955).

"Structure of NiWO₄," R. O. Keeling, Jr., ACTA Cryst 10, 209-213 (1957).

U.S. Patent #3,029,341 "X-Ray Absorption Spectrometer," issued April 1962.

"X-Ray Absorption Edge Studies of Supported Cobalt Catalysts," R. O. Keeling, in Developments in Applied Spectroscopy, Vol 2, eds. J R Ferraro and J S Ziomeck (New York: Plenum, 1963) p 263.

"Magnetite: Preferred Orientation on the Basal Plane of Partially Reduced Hematite," R. O. Keeling, Jr., and D. A. Wick, Science 141, 1175-1176 (1963).

"Analysis of Iron in Layer Silicates by Mossbauer Spectroscopy," G. L. Taylor, A. P. Ruotsala, and R. O. Keeling, Clays and Clay Minerals 16, 381 (1968).

"A Mossbauer investigation of mechanically induced magnetic anisotropy in natural hematite," R. O. Keeling, J. Appl. Phys 43, 4736 (1972), errata in J. Appl. Phys. 44, 2443 (1973).

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