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This Professor M. Luis Muga Scholarship fund for graduate students in chemistry at the University of Florida is established in recognition of the outstanding contributions Professor Muga, emeritus, has made during his long career at the University of Florida. Among these contributions are:

1. Generous financial support for many years funded by the University and by major Federal research grants for numerous undergraduate, post­ graduate and post-doctoral students. These grants also supported technical staff such as electrical engineers, electronics technicians, machinists, computer programmers and secretarial staff.
2. Research as an experimentalist in the fields of nuclear chemistry and physics where he and his graduate and post-doctoral students:
   1. Studied systematics of nuclear fission;
   2. Studied the interaction of nuclear particles with matter;
   3. Developed the thin-film scintillation detector to identify transiting nuclear particles, especially heavy ions;
   4. Discovered the double-valued nature of the luminescence of thin­ film scintillators, and
   5. Studied procedures for efficient hydrogen storage on solid substrates.

Many publications resulted from this and other research at the University of Florida, as well as in collaboration with other universities and National laboratories.

Professor Muga is a humble man. As mentor to his students, he encouraged independence, and set a good example as a hands-on experimentalist. He gave acknowledgment to all his students and staff, to include appropriate joint authorship where any individual made major contributions to research efforts.

The University hopes that many future donors will contribute to this scholarship fund in honor of Professor Muga's outstanding accomplishments in teaching and research.