Dr. Barbara Hale
Professor
Physics
- bhale@mst.edu
- 205 Physics Bldg, 1315 N Pine St, Rolla, MO 65401
Specialization:
Statistical Physics and Molecular Modeling of Nucleation Phenomena
Research Interests:
Scaled Models for Nucleation, Small Cluster Monte Carlo Simulations, Atmospheric Microphysics of Water and Ice Nucleation.
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Education:
- 1967: PhD in Physics: Purdue University, IN
Honors/Awards
- 2014: Chi Omega Fraternity Lifetime Service Award, Missouri S&T
- 2014: Greek Advisor Award, Missouri S&T
- 2013: Woman of the year award, Missouri S&T
- 2002 : Alumni Association Faculty Advisor Award, Missouri S&T
- 2000: Chi Omega National Advisor Award, Missouri S&T
Selected Publications
- B. N. Hale and M. Thomason, “Scaled vapor-to-liquid nucleation in a Lennard-Jones system,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 046101 (2010);
- B. N. Hale “Temperature dependence of homogeneous nucleation rates for water: Near equivalence of the empirical fit of Wolk and Strey, and the scaled nucleation model,” J. Chem. Phys. 122, 204509 (2005);
- S. M. Kathmann and B. N. Hale, “Monte Carlo simulations of small sulfuric acid-water clusters,” J. Phys. Chem. B 105, 11719 (2001);
- B. N. Hale and G. Wilemski, “A Scaled Nucleation Model for Ideal Binary Systems,” Chem. Phys. Letters 305, 263 (1999);
- J. H. Taylor and B. N. Hale, “Monte Carlo simulations of water-ice layers on a model silver iodide substrate: A comparison with bulk ice systems,” Phys. Rev. B 47, 9732 (1993);
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