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HERBERT L. ANDERSON
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... cliec! in Los Alamos on July 16, 198S, after an almost forty-year battle with beryIliosis.
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... it became a common feature of all future cyclotron designs. Assisting Anderson in construction of the cyclotron were Eugene Booth, Norris Glascoe, Hugh GlassforcI, and, of course, John Dunning.
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... nuclear arsenal. Anderson left Chicago for Los Alamos in 1944 en c!
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... reactors. Using a novel form of raclio frequency bridge for detecting the nuclear magnetic resonance, he macle the first precision measurements of the nuclear magnetic moments of these nuclei.
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... a system for automatic readout of spark chambers using TV viclicon cameras, this was user! on a number of studies of boson production in pp collisions clone with students en c!
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... as an important issue for elementary particle research, Anderson went to Los Alamos to search for the process with a collaboration from Stanford, Los Alamos, and Chicago. The null result fount!
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... was a senior fellow until his cleath in 198S, on the same clay as the Trinity atomic test in 1945. At Los Alamos he initially concentratec!
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... their sons Dana Zachary Anderson of Boulder, Colorado, Kelly Pierce Anderson of Salt Lake City, Utah, Clifton Leon Anderson of Sunnyvale, California, stepdaughter Faith A Campbell of Sonoma, California, en c!
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... Report LA-282A, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory.
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... A double magnetic lens nuclear spectrometer.
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... Forward differential cross sections for the reaction p + p - a+ in the range 3.4 to 12.2 GeV/c*
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Key Terms

  • cross sections
  • enrico fermi
  • nuclear magnetic
  • metallurgical laboratory
  • chain reaction

  • slow neutrons
  • radium beryllium
  • john dunning
  • resonance capture
  • senior fellow

  • clifton leon
  • lens nuclear
  • omega reactor
  • positive pions
  • nuclear chain

  • spark chambers
  • muon decays
  • preparing radium
  • racquet court
  • critical mass

  • theodore puck
  • circulating water
  • leon anderson
  • divergent chain
  • dana mitchell

  • angular distribution
  • samples containing
  • common feature
  • fritz strassmann
  • salt lake


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