Response to 1988 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1988.

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Response to 1988 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1988.

Brief summary of Benenson's undergraduate (Yale University) and graduate (University of Wisconsin) education with Richard B. Setlow, Henry H. Barschall, and Hugh Taylor Richards; his postdoctoral work in Strasbourg; and his current work at the Michigan State University cyclotron. File also includes his curriculum vitae, publications list, and questionnaire. Recipients were asked to discuss their entry into a scientific career in general and nuclear physics in particular, their scientific achievements, the funding of their projects, the roles of related sciences in their research, their work as educators and their involvement in physics-related organizations.

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University of Wisconsin

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Barschall, H. H. (Henry Herman), 1915-1997

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Physicist (nuclear physics). Staff member, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1943-1946, 1951-1952; on physics faculty of University of Wisconsin at Madison from 1946; associate division leader, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, 1971-1973. Died in 1997. From the description of Reminiscences. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77865714 Physicist (nuclear physics). Staff member, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1943-1946, 1951-1952; on physics faculty of University of Wisconsin at Ma...

Richards, Hugh T. (Hugh Taylor), 1918-

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Richards (1918-2006) was a civilian physicist who worked on Project Y, part of the Manhattan Project, at Los Alamos, New Mexico. He earned his Ph.D. in nuclear physics from Rice University in 1942 and married Mildred Paddock in 1944. After the war, he became a physics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he helped the physics department recover after the Sterling Hall bombing, and he retired in 1988. From the description of Oral history int...

Yale University.

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Michigan State University

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Michigan State University was established in 1855, and by 1862, it stood as the nation’s premier land-grant university. Over the decades, the university has continued to be a model of what a land-grant university can and should do. As a university of, for and by the people, Michigan State University began a long tradition of empowering people through educational opportunity....

Setlow, Richard B. (Richard Burton)

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Richard B. Setlow (1921-), Physicist (biophyiscs, cancer research). Recieved his Ph.D. in Physics at Yale University in 1947, was jointly appointed as an assistant professor at the Department of Physics and the Biophysics Program at Yale. Setlow taught Biophysics until 1961 when he left for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In 1974, Setlow moved to the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) where he is still active in DNA repair and ultraviolet radiation research. Setlow was elected to the Nation...

Benenson, Walter.

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Benenson was born in 1927. From the description of Response to 1988 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1988. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81568958 ...