Michael Cefola
Michael Cefola (* 1909 in Barile ( Italy ); † February 12, 1983 in Hawthorne (New York) ) was an Italian-born American chemist .
Michael Cefola came to the United States in 1918 . He studied at the City College of New York and received his doctorate in chemistry from New York University under Alexander Benedetti-Pichler's Technique for working with microgram samples .
Glenn T. Seaborg , director of the Manhattan project , asked him to join the project team in Chicago . In 1942, Cefola and two colleagues succeeded in producing the first visible and weighable quantities of pure plutonium , approx. 4 µg . He then did research in the radiation laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . In 1950 he went to Fordham University , where he taught analytical chemistry and radiochemistry until his retirement in 1975 .
Web links
- Obituary of the New York Times
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Michael Cefola at academictree.org, accessed on January 23, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cefola, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barile , Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 12, 1983 |
| Place of death | Hawthorne (New York) |