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Manson Benedict (born October 9, 1907 in Lake Linden , Michigan , † September 18, 2006 in Naples (Florida) ) was an American chemist and nuclear engineer.
Benedict graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor's degree in chemistry and received a PhD in physical chemistry from MIT. Then he went into industry (MW Kellogg Limited). During World War II he was involved in the Manhattan Project in the development of the gas diffusion method for isotope separation and supervised the construction of a plant for this in Oak Ridge. In 1951 he became the first professor of nuclear technology at MIT, initially in the chemical engineering department and from 1958 in a separate department, which he headed until 1971.
He received the Perkin Medal , the Seaborg Medal , the William H. Walker Award (1947), the National Medal of Science (1975), the Robert E. Wilson Award (1968), the Enrico Fermi Prize (1972), the John Fritz Medal (1975) and the EV Murphree Award in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry . He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (election year 1952) and the National Academy of Sciences (election year 1956). In 1977 he was accepted into the American Philosophical Society .
From 1958 to 1968 he was a member and chairman of the Advisory Committee of the United States Atomic Energy Commission .
He is one of the authors of the equation of state by Benedict-Webb-Rubin (1940 at Kellogg).
Fonts
- Editor with Clarke Williams: Engineering developments in the gaseous diffusion process, McGraw Hill 1949
- with Thomas H. Pigford; Hans Wolfgang Levi: Nuclear chemical engineering, 2nd edition, McGraw Hill 1981
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| SURNAME | Benedict, Manson |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist and nuclear technician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lake Linden , Michigan |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 18, 2006 |
| Place of death | Naples (Florida) |