Dr. Long is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, Phi Lambda, Upsilon, and the Society of the Sigma Xi. He served for four years as program chairman for the Division of Inorganic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society and he served for six years on the American Chemical Society Committee on Publications. He served for nine years on the Council of the American Chemical Society representing the South Central Missouri local section of the society.

As an educator, in addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate inorganic chemistry courses, Dr. Long, in conjunction with Profs. Grandjean and Buschow, organized NATO Advanced Study Institutes on The Time Domain in Surface and Structural Dynamics in 1988, Supermagnets, Hard Magnetic Materials in 1990, High Density Digital Recording in 1992, and Interstitial Intermetallic Alloys in 1994. He has also edited or co-edited eleven books and chapters, mostly dealing with inorganic chemistry and the Mössbauer effect.

Dr. Long has made many research contributions in inorganic chemistry, solid-state physics and chemistry, materials science, mineralogy, and metallurgy. This work has been reported in almost 300 research papers in the chemistry, physics, and mineralogy literature.

On Sept. 1, 1968, Dr. Gary Long, professor of chemistry joined the Missouri S&T faculty (formerly the University of Missouri--Rolla). Dr. Long began his S&T career teaching general and inorganic chemistry to undergraduate and graduate students. Dr. Long’s contributions to the fields of physical inorganic and solid-state chemistry include his research using the Mössbauer effect, the atomic process whereby a nucleus emits or absorbs gamma rays without losing energy by recoil. Through observing a Mössbauer spectrum, scientists can determine unique electronic, magnetic and structural properties within materials, particularly compounds containing iron, Long says.

Long’s recognition in the Mössbauer community is based on his S&T laboratory’s over 400 internationally published scientific papers, more than from any other U.S. academic institution.

“The best teachers are doing research, and the best researchers are always teaching,” says Long. For the last 10 years, Long has taught graduate students through his inorganic chemistry lectures. He also teaches students the best practices for a successful scientific career, such as how to prepare graphics that are acceptable for publication and how to prepare and convincingly present their research at conferences.

On September 12, 2018, the College of Arts, Sciences, and Business (CASB) honored Dr. Gerald L. Cohen and Dr. Gary J. Long – two professors who have shared five decades of teaching and research excellence with Missouri S&T.

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