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Edwin Mattison McMillan (September 18, 1907 – September 7, 1991) was an American physicist credited with being the first to produce a transuranium element, neptunium. For this, he shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Glenn Seaborg .
Joseph William Kennedy (May 30, 1916 – May 5, 1957) was an American chemist who co-discovered plutonium, along with Glenn T. Seaborg, Edwin McMillan, and Arthur Wahl. During World War II , he led the CM (Chemistry and Metallurgy) Division at the Manhattan Project 's Los Alamos Laboratory , where he oversaw research onto the chemistry and ...
Edwin McMillan constructed the first electron synchrotron in 1945, arriving at the idea independently, having missed Veksler's publication (which was only available in a Soviet journal, although in English). [4] [5] [6] The first proton synchrotron was designed by Sir Marcus Oliphant [5] [7] and built in 1952. [5]
Born in Southern Pines, McMillan earned a philosophy degree from NC State in 1978 and promptly took up bartending, his family reported in an obituary. Before his stint at Player’s Retreat, Bert ...
In 1944, he began working in the field of accelerator physics, where he became famous for the invention of the microtron, [3] [4] and the development of the synchrotron in independence to Edwin McMillan, [5] pursuing the development of modern particle accelerators.
Authorities in Boston have charged a woman with murder in connection with the death of an attorney found on a houseboat in a marina over the weekend.
Arthur Charles Wahl (September 8, 1917 – March 6, 2006) [2] was an American chemist who, as a doctoral student of Glenn T. Seaborg at the University of California, Berkeley, first isolated plutonium (94) in February 1941 [3] [4] shortly after the element neptunium (93) was discovered by McMillan and Abelson in 1940.
Sketch of a synchrocyclotron from McMillan's patent. [1]A synchrocyclotron is a special type of cyclotron, patented by Edwin McMillan in 1952, in which the frequency of the driving RF electric field is varied to compensate for relativistic effects as the particles' velocity begins to approach the speed of light.