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Merle Antony Tuve
Merle Antony Tuve
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War II he lee! in the clevelopment of the proximity fuze that stopped the buzz bomb attack on London, played a crucial part in the Battle of the Bulge, en c!
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Tuve, was president of Augustana College en c! his mother, Icia Marie Larsen Tuve, taught music there.
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Splenclic! voltage control and stability enabled them to discover a resonance when lithium was bombarded by protons, and gamma rays were observed.
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Within a day the discovery was confirmed at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism by Richard Roberts and Hafstad. Soon thereafter Roberts observed that some uranium fission events are follower!
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This in turn requires! a transfer of activities from the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism to larger quarters in the newly formed Applied Physics Laboratory administered by the Johns Hopkins University en c!
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Navy began using proximity fuzes the Japanese air force incurrec! crippling losses.
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attacks. Ultimately the proximity fuzes hac!
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This means that they help him with the whole job, they don't just do what they are told to do. This system of asking people to help with the whole job was what I used in running the proximity fuze development.
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However, personal involvement in research was his principal activity. His fielcis of investigation included experiments in seismology, radio astronomy, and the development of superior optical image tubes.
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Characteristically, Tuve set about improving the essential auxiliary electronic equipment anct soon tract what at the time was the best of its kind
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souncIing boards, resulting in an enhancement of Tuve's own excellent native judgment. The careers of scientists who experiencec!
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A former president of the American Geophysical Union, George WoolIarcI, characterizec! MerIe Tuve with these worcis: Anyone who knows Merle Tuve recognizes that he is a driver, who has never spared himself; a crusader, who has espoused the cause of science to the government and the people of this country; a patriot, who never questioned the wisdom of devoting some of his most productive years to classi
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MERLE ANTONY TUVE 419 fled military research; a leader, who had much to do with the success of the International Geophysical Year as well as with the outstanding reputation enjoyed by the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington; a public servant, who has devoted much of his time to the service of his fellow scientists through service on various boards and committees of the National Academy of Sciences and other groups; a diplomat, who has done much to foster both understanding and working relations between American and foreign scientists; and, finally, a warm-hearted individual, who has always been willing to help others. Tuve carrier!
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An echo interference method for the study of radio wave paths.
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Dahl. High voltage technique for nuclear physics studies.
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Baum. Results of preliminary tests of cascaded image converters.
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