biography
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| (1902–67)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Weehawken, New Jersey, USA. He taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1934–60), and was concurrently a commander in the US Naval Reserves (1943–51). He made significant contributions to the fields of ferromagnetism, nuclear structure, and optics. During the 1930s he invented the Bitter electromagnet, a water-cooled solenoid that produced the first sustained powerful magnetic field. |
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