McMillan, Edwin M. (Edwin Mattison), 1907-

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Dates:
Birth 1907-09-18
Death 1991-09-07
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Biographical notes:

Physicist. Professor of physics, University of California at Berkeley, 1934-1973; and staff member of Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (renamed the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in 1971), 1934-1971, and its director from 1958-1973. Pioneer in development and application of the cyclotron. Died in 1991.

From the description of Travel diary kept during the California Institute of Technology Travel Prize Trip across the United States and Europe, 1927. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83660405

Educator, physicist.

From the description of Reminiscences of Edwin Mattison McMillan : oral history, 1964. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122451715

Died in 1991.

From the description of Oral history interview with Edwin M. McMillan, 1972 June 1 to 31 October. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84192624

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Subjects:

  • Particle accelerators
  • Cyclotrons
  • Molecular beams
  • Nobel Prizes
  • Nuclear physics
  • Nuclear physics
  • Nuclear weapons
  • Nuclear weapons
  • Physicists
  • Physics
  • Radar
  • Radiochemistry
  • Research
  • Sonar
  • Underwater acoustics
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945

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  • Europe (as recorded)
  • California (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Europe (as recorded)

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