biography
| name: |
Nier, Alfred O(tto) C(arl)
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pronunciation:
[neer]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1911–94)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in St Paul, Minnesota, USA. He was a fellow at Harvard (1936–8), taught at the University of Minnesota (1938–43), and became a physicist at Kellex Corp, NY, before returning to Minnesota as a professor (1945–80). He developed the high-resolution mass spectrometer to study rare isotopes, and separated and determined the fissionability of uranium-235 in 1940. |
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