biography
| name: |
Abelson, Phillip H(auge)
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pronunciation:
[ayblson]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1913– )
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| biography:
| Physical chemist, born in Tacoma, Washington, USA. He studied at Washington State College and the University of California at Berkeley, and was appointed director of the geophysics laboratory of the Carnegie Institution, WA, in 1953 (president 1971). In 1940 he assisted Edwin Mattison McMillan to bombard uranium with neutrons, which led to the discovery of a new element, neptunium. From 1941 he worked on the Manhattan atomic bomb project, developing diffusion methods for obtaining enriched uranium-235; this was the fuel for the first A-bomb. |
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