Albert Wattenberg
American physicist (1917–2007) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Albert Wattenberg (April 13, 1917 – June 27, 2007), was an American experimental physicist. During World War II, he was with the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago. He was a member of the team that built Chicago Pile-1, the world's first artificial nuclear reactor, and was one of those present on December 2, 1942, when it achieved criticality. In July 1945, he was one of the signatories of the Szilard petition. After the war he received his doctorate, and became a researcher at the Argonne National Laboratory from 1947 to 1950, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1951 to 1958, and at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1958 to 1986, where he pursued studies related to the atomic nucleus.
Albert Wattenberg | |
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Born | Albert Wattenberg (1917-04-13)April 13, 1917 New York, New York |
Died | June 27, 2007(2007-06-27) (aged 90) |
Citizenship | American |
Alma mater | City College of New York Columbia University University of Chicago |
Scientific career | |
Fields | High-energy physics |
Institutions | Metallurgical Laboratory Argonne National Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign |
Thesis | Photo-neutron sources and the energy of the photo-neutrons (1947) |
Doctoral advisor | Walter Zinn |