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42
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National Ranking
1978

Overview

Roman A. Schmitt is affiliated with Oregon State University in the United States. Their research spans several fields, primarily focusing on engineering, chemistry, and materials science. Within these broader disciplines, their work touches on specific subfields such as mechanics of materials, materials chemistry, atomic and molecular physics and optics, inorganic chemistry, and control and systems engineering.

The scientist's research topics include atomic and molecular physics, muon and positron interactions and applications, inorganic fluorides and related compounds, mining techniques and economics, railway systems and materials science, metal extraction, bioleaching, and fullerene chemistry and applications.

Roman A. Schmitt has contributed to several publications across different scientific venues. Recent papers include:

  • Separation and Isolation of Rare-Earth Clusters Trapped inside Uncommon Carbon Cages, 2024, ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • An economic block model-based framework to determine design requirements for ferromanganese crust mining systems, 2025, Marine Georesources and Geotechnology
  • Supramolecular Length-Dependent Encapsulation of C90, C100, C120, and C130: a Shape-Selective Approach to Fullertube Purification, 2025, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Schmitt's collaborations involve working with several coauthors, with notable frequent collaborators including Steven Stevenson, Maxime Lesage, Steinar Løve Ellefmo, Valentina Iannace, and Clara Sabrià.

Publications have appeared primarily in the following venues:

  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • Marine Georesources and Geotechnology
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society

Best Publications

  • Rare-Earth distributions in the marine environment

    Edward D. Goldberg;Minoru Koide;R. A. Schmitt;R. H. Smith

  • Meteoritic, solar and terrestrial rare-earth distributions.

    Larry A. Haskin;Fred A. Frey;Roman A. Schmitt;Richard H. Smith

  • Cerium:A chemical tracer for paleo-oceanic redox conditions

    Y.-G. Liu;M.R.U. Miah;R.A. Schmitt

  • Abstracts of Contributed Papers

    R. C. Henry;J. E. Hesser;W. McClintock;J. Audouze

  • ELEMENTAL ABUNDANCES IN STONE METEORITES

    R. A. Schmitt;G. G. Goles;R. H. Smith;T. W. Osborn

  • Elemental abundances in chondrules from unequilibrated chondrites: Evidence for chondrule origin by melting of pre-existing materials

    James L. Gooding;Klaus Keil;Takaaki Fukuoka;Roman A. Schmitt

  • Chemical evidence for the genesis of the ureilites, the achondrite Chassigny and the nakhlites

    W.V Boynton;P.M Starzyk;R.A Schmitt

  • Rare-earth, yttrium and scandium abundances in meteoritic and terrestrial matter—II

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  • Rare earth element geochemistry of South Atlantic deep sea sediments: Ce anomaly change at ~54 My

    Y.L. Wang;Y.-G. Liu;R.A. Schmitt

  • Correlation of volcanic ash deposits by activation analysis of glass separates

    G. A. Borchardt;M. E. Harward;R. A. Schmitt

  • Trace element partitioning between volcanic plagioclase and dacitic pyroclastic matrix

    M.J. Dudas;R.A. Schmitt;M.E. Harward

  • Petrogenetic modeling of Hawaiian tholeiitic basalts: A geochemical approach

    J. R. Budahn;R. A. Schmitt

  • Petrogenesis of the SNC (shergottites, nakhlites, chassignites) meteorites: Implications for their origin from a large dynamic planet, possibly Mars

    M. R. Smith;J. C. Laul;M. S. Ma;T. Huston

  • Basalt generation at the Apollo 12 site. Part 1: New data, classification, and re-evaluation

    Clive R. Neal;Matthew D. Hacker;Matthew D. Hacker;Gregory A. Snyder;Lawrence A. Taylor

  • Genesis of howardites, diogenites, and eucrites.

    T. Fukuoka;W. V. Boynton;M. S. Ma;R. A. Schmitt

  • Alteration of basaltic glasses from north-central British Columbia, Canada

    M.J. Jercinovic;K. Keil;M.R. Smith;R.A. Schmitt

  • Apollo 14 aluminous mare basalts and their possible relationship to KREEP.

    T. Dickinson;G. J. Taylor;K. Keil;R. A. Schmitt

  • Geochemistry of sediments on the Rio Grande Rise and the redox evolution of the South Atlantic Ocean

    X. Hu;Y.L. Wang;R.A. Schmitt

  • The petrogenesis of L-6 chondrites: insights from the chemistry of minerals

    David B. Curtis;R.A. Schmitt

  • Apollo 15 yellow-brown volcanic glass: Chemistry and petrogenetic relations to green volcanic glass and olivine-normative mare basalts

    S.S Hughes;J.W Delano;R.A Schmitt

  • Radiochemical neutron activation analysis of indium, cadmium, yttrium and the 14 rare earth elements in rocks

    P. Rey;H. Wakita;R.A. Schmitt

  • Genesis of the Angra dos Reis and other achondritic meteorites

    M.-S. Ma;A.V. Murali;R.A. Schmitt

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus Keil
Klaus Keil University of Hawaii at Manoa
Lawrence A. Taylor
Lawrence A. Taylor University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Clive R. Neal
Clive R. Neal University of Notre Dame
Donald D. Bogard
Donald D. Bogard Planetary Science Institute
Gregory A. Snyder
Gregory A. Snyder University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Steven B. Simon
Steven B. Simon University of New Mexico
William V. Boynton
William V. Boynton University of Arizona
James P. McKinley
James P. McKinley Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
James J. Papike
James J. Papike University of New Mexico
Martin Prinz
Martin Prinz American Museum of Natural History

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