Robert Jemison Van de Graaff
Robert Jemison Van de Graaff (born December 20, 1901 in Tuscaloosa , Alabama , † January 16, 1967 in Boston ) was an American physicist .
After studying mechanical engineering at the University of Alabama (Master's degree in 1923), Van de Graaff studied under Marie Curie in Paris and physics at Oxford University . In 1926 he earned his bachelor's degree from Oxford, where he received his doctorate in 1928. From 1929 to 1931 he was a Fellow of the National Research Council at Princeton University and from 1931 to 1934 as a Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
In 1934 he became an Associate Professor of Physics at MIT. In 1935 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Van de Graaff was chief scientist at the High Voltage Engineering Corporation from 1946 to 1967.
In 1929 he developed the Van de Graaff generator and on its basis the Van de Graaff accelerator .
In 1966 he received the Tom W. Bonner Prize for Nuclear Physics from the American Physical Society , of which he had been a fellow since 1934.
Web links
- Robert Jemison Van de Graaf. In: Physics History Network. American Institute of Physics
- Ralf Plag: Robert Jemison Van de Graaff (biography). Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe FZK, archived from the original on December 21, 2006 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Van de Graaff, Robert Jemison |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tuscaloosa , Alabama |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 16, 1967 |
| Place of death | Boston |