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Richard Isaac Martinez
Occupation: research scientist, science administrator, music promoter and producer, education and health policy consultant
Born: Havana, Cuba, August 16, 1944

Education
BSc, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Can., 1964
PhD in Physical Chemistry, UCLA, 1976
Career
Laboratory assistant DuPont of Can. Ltd., Maitland, Canada, 1962; teaching assistant McGill University, Montreal, 1964-65; teaching and research assistant San Diego State University, 1965-67; chemist Shell Chemical Co., Torrance, California, 1967-70; research chemist UCLA, 1971-76, Department Commerce National Institute Standards and Tech., Gaithersburg, Maryland, 1976-92; CEO, president aDoReMe Productions, 1990—, OmniSciHCD Consultant, 2006—; health scientist administrator Office Sci. Review, National Institute General Medical Scis., National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 1992—2006
Career Related
Appointed member City of Gaithersburg's Tech. and Innovation Committee, 1998—.
Creative Works
Contributor over 40 articles to professional publications, chapters to books.
Awards
Fellow Council for Excellence in Government, 1995-96, Senior Fellow, 1996-; recipient I-R 100 award, 1983, Bronze medal US Department Commerce, 1981; postdoctoral research associate National Academy Scis., 1976-78; doctoral fellow UCLA, 1970-73.
Achievements
Achievements include patents in methods for producing carbocyclic compounds, flue-gas desulfurization (I-R 100 award 1983); discovered dioxiranes (Encyclopedia Brit. Yearbook of Sci. and the Future, 1979), metastable excited sulfur dioxide, vicinal hydroxy-substituted alkyl and oxoalkyl nitrates, peroxynitrates; research in development, standardization and application of MS/MS Tandem Mass Spectrometry for the study of the kinetics and mechanisms of complex ion-molecule reactions; research on the kinetics and mechanisms of complex organic reaction systems relevant to oxidation and atmospheric chemistry (including the oxidation chemistry of olefins and sulfur compounds; free-radical reactions; ozone-olefin and ozone-sulfide reactions); developed cutting-edge research methodologies.
Civic
President, chairman board directors Bethesda-Chevy Chase Jewish Community Group, 1991-93.
Memberships
member Am. Chemical Society, Society Advancement of Chicanos and Native Ams. in Sci., Sigma Xi Sci. Research Society
Family
Son of Joseph Louis and Susana (Nardea) M.; children: David B.J., Robyn S.M.
Immigration
came to US, 1950
Address
Office: OmniSciHCD Cons aDoReMe Prodns PO Box 3616 Gaithersburg MD 20885-3616
Richard Isaac Martinez's biography appeared in the following books:
Who's Who in America, 61st Edition
Who's Who in America, 60th Edition
Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 1st Edition
Who's Who in the World, 24th Edition
Who's Who in the World, 23rd Edition
Who's Who in the World, 18th Edition




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