Bernard G. Harvey
Bernard George Harvey (born October 5, 1919 in England - † November 29, 2016 ) was a British-American chemist ( nuclear chemistry ).
Harvey studied at Oxford. He first worked from 1946 to 1953 at the Chalk River Laboratories for Atomic Energy of Canada in Canada, among other things on the chemistry of plutonium, and then worked for Glenn T. Seaborg in Berkeley. At the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL) he was involved in the discovery and creation of some transuranic elements, such as Mendelevium (1955 with Stanley G. Thompson , Seaborg, Albert Ghiorso , Gregory Choppin ), Einsteinium and Fermium (with Thompson, Ghiorso, Choppin 1952 ). He stayed at the LBL and became Director of the Cyclotron and Associate Director of Nuclear Physics.
In 1961 he was a Guggenheim Fellow and in 1966 a Fellow of the American Physical Society .
Harvey lived in Berkeley, California until his death.
Fonts
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Introduction to Nuclear Physics and Chemistry , Prentice-Hall 1962, 2nd edition 1969.
- German translation: Nuclear physics and nuclear chemistry: an introduction , Thiemig 1966.
- with FS Goulding: Identification of Nuclear Particles , Annual Review of Nuclear Science, Volume 25, 1975, pp. 167-240.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short biography
- ^ Obituary , accessed February 11, 2017
- ↑ Career data based on Who's who in Technology , Gale 1986.
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| SURNAME | Harvey, Bernard G. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Harvey, Bernard George (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British-American chemist (nuclear chemistry) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | England |
| DATE OF DEATH | 29th November 2016 |
| Place of death | Berkeley, California, USA |