Ferdinand Brickwedde
Ferdinand Graft Brickwedde (born March 26, 1903 in Baltimore , † March 29, 1989 in Bellefont (Pennsylvania) ) was an American physicist. With Harold Urey and George M. Murphy, he succeeded in detecting deuterium in 1931 . For its discovery, Urey received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Brickwedde studied at Johns Hopkins University with a bachelor's degree in 1922, a master's degree in 1924 and a doctorate in 1925. He then worked at the National Bureau of Standards , where he became head of the cryogenic laboratory in 1926 and head of the heat and power department in 1946 (Heat and Power). He founded the NBS cryogenics laboratory in Boulder.
From 1956 to 1963 he was Dean of the College of Chemistry and Physics at Pennsylvania State University and also a professor of physics. In 1968 he retired.
His wife Marion Langhorne Howard Brickwedde (1909–1997) was also a physicist. With her he had two daughters.
Fonts
- with Harold Urey, GM Murphy: A Hydrogen Isotope of Mass 2, Physical Review, Volume 39, 1932, pp. 164-165
literature
- Edward F. Hammel, Robert W. Reed: Ferdinand Brickwedde, Physics Today, Volume 43, July 1990
Web links
- Walter Sullivan, NY Times obituary , April 1, 1989
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SURNAME | Brickwedde, Ferdinand |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brickwedde, Ferdinand Graft (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1903 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Baltimore |
DATE OF DEATH | March 29, 1989 |
Place of death | Bellefont, Pennsylvania |