McAllister Hull
McAllister Hobart Hull junior (born September 1, 1923 in Birmingham , Alabama , † February 9, 2011 in South Carolina ) was an American physicist .
Hull studied physics at Mississippi State University from 1941 and worked in the Manhattan project in Los Alamos (New Mexico) from 1943 (including explosive lenses for the plutonium bomb). After the war he continued his studies at Yale University with a bachelor's degree in 1948 and a doctorate in nuclear physics with Gregory Breit in 1951. He then taught as an instructor and later professor at Yale, from 1966 at the State University of New York at Buffalo and from 1969 the Oregon State University , before he went to the University of New Mexico as Provost in 1977 . In 1989 he retired.
Fonts
- with Amy Bianco: Rider of the Pale Horse: A Memoir of Los Alamos and Beyond, University of New Mexico Press 2006
- The calculus of physics, Benjamin 1969
- with Gregory Breit: Coulomb wave functions, Handbuch der Physik 1959
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Career and date of birth according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hull, McAllister |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hull, McAllister Hobart junior (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 1, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Birmingham , Alabama |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 2011 |
| Place of death | South carolina |