Samuel King Allison

Herausgegeben:Surhone, Lambert M.; Timpledon, Miriam T.; Marseken, Susan F.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Samuel King Allison (November 13, 1900 ? September 15, 1965) was an American physicist, most notable for his role in the Manhattan Project ? where among other things he read the countdown for the detonation of the "Trinity" test ? and his postwar work in the "scientists' movement". Samuel K. Allison was born in Chicago, Illinois, and attended the University of Chicago for his undergraduate degree as well as for his PhD (in chemistry, though his thesis was related to experimental physics). From 1923 until 1925 he was a research fellow at Harvard University and from 1925 until 1926 he was a research fellow at the Carnegie Institution From 1926 until 1928 he taught physics at University of California, Berkeley, after which he returned to the University of Chicago, where he studied the Compton effect and the dynamical theory of x-ray diffraction. He developed a high resolution x-ray spectrometer with a graduate student, John H. Williams. Inthe late 1930s, he studied with John Cockcroft at the Cavendish Laboratory, learning about linear accelerators, and after returning to Chicago he built one. He authored a textbook on x-rays with Arthur Compton which became widely used.

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• Verlag: Betascript Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 68
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9786130448257
• ISBN-10: 6130448252
• Artikelnr.: 28892194