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Thomas M. Semkow

Research Scientist, Wadsworth Center, Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry
Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences

Ph.D.: Nuclear Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO (1983)
Postdoctoral Training: Nuclear Physics, Washington University, Oak Ridge
National Laboratory, Brookhaven National laboratory (1983-1987)

Email: tms15@health.state.ny.us

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  • Radioactivity in Trinitite six decades later. P.P. Parekh, T.M. Semkow, M.A. Torres, D.K. Haines, J.M. Cooper, P.M. Rosenberg, M.E. Kitto. J. Environ. Radioact. (2005) accepted.
  • Modeling of alpha mass-efficiency curve. T.M. Semkow, H.W. Jeter, B. Parsa, P.P. Parekh, D.K. Haines, A. Bari. Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phys. Res. A 538 (2005) 790.
  • Multifarious application of well-type germanium detector. P.P. Parekh, T.M. Semkow, A. Bari, M.A. Torres, D.K. Haines, P.R. Harris, E.M. Fielman, M.E. Kitto. J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem. 262 (2004) 317.
  • Experimental investigation of mass efficiency curve for alpha radioactivity counting using a gas-proportional detector. T.M. Semkow, A. Bari, P.P. Parekh, D.K. Haines, H. Gao, A.N. Bolden, K.S. Dahms, S.C. Scarpitta, R.E. Thern, S. Velazquez. Appl. Rad. Isot. 60 (2004) 879.
  • Comment on "Algebraic approach to the radioactive decay equations", by L. Moral and A. F. Pacheco [Am. J. Phys. 71(7), 684-686 (2003)]. T.M. Semkow. Am. J. Phys. 72 (2004) 410.
  • Study of traces of tritium at the World Trade Center. T.M. Semkow, R.S. Hafner, P.P. Parekh, G.J. Wozniak, D.K. Haines, L. Husain, R.L. Rabun, P.G. Williams. Proceedings of the Symposium on Radioanalytical Methods at the Frontier of Interdisciplinary Research, Orlando, FL, April (2002), A.C.S. Symposium Series 868 (2003) 218.
  • Experimental verification of overdispersion in radioassay data. T.M. Semkow. Health Phys. 83 (2002) 458.
  • Low background gamma spectrometry for environmental radioactivity. T.M. Semkow, P.P. Parekh, C.D. Schwenker, A.J. Khan, A. Bari, J.F. Colaresi, O.K. Tench, G. David, W. Guryn. Appl. Rad. Isot. 57 (2002) 213.
  • A new method for sealing containers with liquid samples for radioactivity measurements. P. Parekh, A. Bari, T. Semkow, M. Torres. J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem. 253 (2002) 321.
  • Principles of gross alpha and beta radioactivity detection in water. T.M. Semkow, P.P. Parekh. Health Phys. 81 (2001) 567.

Contact Information

Phone: (518) 474-6071
Fax: (518) 474-8590
Email: tms15@health.state.ny.us.