Abelson, Philip Hauge
Philip H. Abelson autobiography, undated.
Early years and family in Tacoma, Washington; undergraduate education in chemistry and graduate education in physics at Washington State University; graduate studies and work on cyclotron at University of California, Berkeley from 1935-1939; neutron irradiation of uranium; identification of transuranic element 93; scientific career at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and National Bureau of Standards; uranium separation during World War II; work for Naval Research Laboratory project to develop a nuclear submarine; editor of Science. This autobiography complements an oral history interview also available at the Niels Bohr Library.
Scientist and editor. Abelson spent most of his career at Carnegie Institution of Washington, moving from assisstant physicist (1939) to director of the Geophysical Lab to president (1971-1978).
Abelson, Philip Hauge
Carnegie Institution of Washington.
Naval Research Laboratory (U.S.)
United States. National Bureau of Standards
University of California, Berkeley.
Cyclotrons.
Nuclear physics
Nuclear submarines.
Transuranium elements.
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AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA