EDUCATION

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 1979-1981

NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Postdoctoral Resident Research Associate, 1979-1981

University of California, Berkeley, California
Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, 1979

Utah State University, Logan, Utah
B.S., Chemistry/Mathematics, 1973


PATENT

 "Platinum Catalytic Igniter for Lean Hydrogen-Air Mixtures”
A Nuclear Reactor Safety Device
U.S. Patent No. 4,741,879
Awarded May 3, l988


PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS/PANELS

• NASA Orion Flight Heat-Shield Radiometer, Critical Design Review Panel
• U. S. Department of Energy Instrument Review Panel
• U. S. Department of Energy Environmental Management/Waste Remediation  Panel      
• National Science Foundation Proposal Review Panel
• Cornell University Combustion Research Program, External Reviewer
• Journal of Chemical Physics, Frequent Reviewer
• Journal of Physical Chemistry, Frequent Reviewer
  

 PUBLICATIONS (IN UNCLASSIFIED LITERATURE)

"Fat Tails Quantified and Resolved: A New Distribution to Reveal and Characterize the Risk and Opportunity Inherent in Leptokurtic Data," Lawrence R. Thorne, (2011)  http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.6553 .

 "An Innovative Approach to Balancing Chemical-Reaction Equations: A Simplified Matrix Inversion Technique for Determining the Matrix Null Space," Lawrence R. Thorne, Chem. Educator, 15, 304-308 (2010) & http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.4321.

 "Stark Quantum-Beat Spectroscopy: The Electric Dipole Moment of NO (A)," J. A. Gray, R. L. Farrow, J. L. Durant, and L. R. Thorne, J. Chem. Phys. 99, 4327-31 (1993).

 "The Structure of Hydrogen Cyanide - Nitrogen Dioxide Premixed Flames," L. R. Thorne and C. F. Melius, Twenty-Third Symposium (International) on Combustion, The Combustion Institute, Philadelphia, PA. 397-403 (1990).

 "Detection of NH Radicals in Flames Using Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing," D. J. Rakestraw, L. R. Thorne and T. Dreier, Twenty-Third Symposium (International) on Combustion, The Combustion Institute, Philadelphia, PA, 1901-1907 (1990).

 "Free Radical Oxidation of Isocyanic Acid," F. P. Tully, R. A. Perry, L. R. Thorne and M. D. Allendorf, Twenty-Second Symposium (International) on Combustion, (1988).

 "Nitric Oxide/Hydrocarbon Interactions in Low-Pressure Flames," L. R. Thorne, M. C. Branch, D. W. Chandler, R. J. Kee, and J. A. Miller, Twenty-First Symposium (International) on Combustion, The Combustion Institute, Philadelphia, PA (1987).

 "Measured Radiative Lifetimes of H2 and HD in the E, F 1∑g+ Electronic State," D. W. Chandler and L. R. Thorne; J. Chem. Phys. 85, 1733-1737 (1986).

 "In Situ Studies of Pulverized Coal Combustion by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy," D. K. Ottesen and L. R. Thorne, Proceedings Int. Conf. Coal Sci., 351-4, Pergamon, Sydney, Australia, (1985).

 "Infrared Photochemistry of Gas-Phase Ions," L. R. Thorne and J. L. Beauchamp, Book Chapter:  Gas-Phase Ion Chemistry, 3, M. T. Bowers ed., Academic Press (1984).

 "The Chemistry of Phosphorus in Dense Interstellar Clouds," L. R. Thorne, V. G. Anicich, S. S. Prasad and W. T. Huntress, Jr.,  Astrophysical Journal 280, 139-143 (1984).

 "Studies of Pulverized Coal Combustion Using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometry," L. R. Thorne and D. K. Ottesen, Proceedings Electrochem. Soc. 83-7, 425-33 (1983).

 "A Theoretical Study of the Properties of BH3NH3," J. S. Binkley and L. R. Thorne; J. Chem. Phys. 79, 2932-40 (1983).

 "Microwave Spectrum, Torsional Barrier and Structure of Borane Monoammoniate," L. R. Thorne, R. D. Sunram and F. J. Lovas; J. Chem. Phys. 78, 167-71 (1983).

 "Infrared Photochemistry of Gas-Phase Ions," L. R. Thorne, C. A. Wight and J. L. Beauchamp; Lect. Notes Chem., Ion Cyclotron Resonance Spectrom. 31, 43-97 (1982).

 "An ICR Study of Ion-Molecule Reactions of PHn+ (n=1,4)," L. R.  Thorne, V. G. Anicich and W. T. Huntress, Chem. Phys. Lett. 98, 162-6 (1983).

 "Microwave Spectra and Molecular Structure of BH(NH2)2, " L. R. Thorne and W. D. Gwinn, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 104, 3822-7 (1982).

 "Photoelectron-Photoion Coincidence Study of CF3I:  Implications for the CW IR Laser Multiphoton Dissociation of CF3I+," R. Bombach, J.  Dunnacher, J.-P. Stadelman, J. Vogt, L. R. Thorne and J. L. Beauchamp, Chem. Phys. 66, 403-8 (1982).

 "Infrared and Raman Spectra and Normal Coordinate Analysis of Boranediamine," D. C. Reuter, L. R. Thorne and W. D. Gwinn, J. Phys. Chem. 86, 4737-4745 (1982).

 "Microwave Spectrum and Dipole Moment of BH3NH3," R. D. Sunram and L. R. Thorne, Chem. Phys. Lett. 78, 157-60 (1981).

 "Ion Cyclotron Resonance and Photoionization Investigations of the Thermochemistry and Reactions of the Ions Derived from CF3I," D. W. Berman, L. R. Thorne and J. L. Beauchamp, Int. J. Mass Spectrom. and Ion Phys. 39, 47-54 (1981).

 "Efficient  Multiphoton Dissociation of CF3I+ in the Metastable 2E1/2 Excited State Using CW Infrared Laser Radiation," L. R. Thorne and J. L. Beauchamp, J. Chem. Phys. 74, 5100-05 (1981).

 "Synthesis, Characterization and Structure of Diaminoborane," T. S. Briggs, W. D. Gwinn, W. L. Jolly and L. R. Thorne, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 100, 7762-4 (1978).

 "Digital Modulator and Synchronous Demodulator System: An Alternative to the Analog Phase Detector," G. D. Renkes, L. R. Thorne and W. D. Gwinn, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 49, 994-1000 (1978).