biography
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Bennett, Willard Harrison
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| male
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| lived:
| (1903–87)
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| biography:
| Physicist and inventor, born in Findlay, Ohio, USA. He studied at the University of Michigan, and in 1930 joined the faculty of Ohio State University. In the 1950s, he invented a device that produced a model of the Van Allen radiation belts. His radio-frequency mass spectrometer, a device that measured the mass of atoms, first went into space in 1957 aboard the Russian satellite Sputnik. |
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