Response to 1988 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1988.

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Response to 1988 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1988.

Four pages discussing Weneser's work on the Manhattan Project as a --very humble assistant--and his past and present work at Brookhaven National Laboratory with Maurice Goldhaber, Ray Davis, and Gerhart Friedlander. File also includes a five-page questionnaire and a four-page publications list.

13 pp.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8211077

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Goldhaber, Maurice, 1911-2011

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Maurice Goldhaber (b. April 18, 1911, Lemberg, Austria-Hungary–d. May 11, 2011, East Setauket, NY) studied physics at University of Berlin and received his PhD from Cambridge University. In 1934, Goldhaber and James Chadwick established that the neutron has a great enough mass over the proton to decay while working at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, England. Goldhaber moved to the University of Illinois in 1938 and published research about beta participles with his wife, Gertrude Scharff-...

Friedlander, Gerhart

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Weneser, Joseph, 1922-...

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Brookhaven National Laboratory

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A federally funded research laboratory founded in 1947. Operated by Associated Universities, Inc., sponsored by nine northeastern universities under a contract with the United States Department of Energy, the Laboratory conducts research in high energy physics, basic energy sciences, nuclear energy, nuclear and medium energy physics and chemistry, and basic life sciences, including biology and medical use and effects of radiation, radioisotopes, and other nuclear tools. Environmental and energy ...