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Trump, John G.
John G. Trump papers, 1933-1981.
The collection includes material about Trump's study of the use of energized electrons to disinfect municipal sludge; patents issued to Trump and Robert J. Van de Graaff; and information about Trump's involvement with professional associations and other professional activities. Also includes administrative and research records of the MIT High Voltage Research Laboratory which Trump directed from 1946 to 1980.
John George Trump, 1907-1985, B.S. in electrical engineering, 1929, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn; M.A. 1931, Columbia University; Sc.D in electrical engineering, 1933, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, became a research associate at MIT in 1933, assistant professor in 1941, and professor in 1952. Working with Robert J. Van de Graaff, he designed one of the first million-volt x-ray generators used in cancer therapy. During World War II he worked on the military uses of microwave radiation, becoming director of the British branch of the MIT Radiation Laboratory in 1944. After the war he co-founded, with Van de Graaff and Denis Robinson, the High Voltage Engineering Corporation to manufacture generators for use in nuclear research, industrial processing, radiography, and medicine. The focus of his research was high voltage phenomena, the acceleration of electrons to high energies, and the interaction of radiation with living and non-living matter.
Trump, John G.
Van de Graaf, Robert Jemison, 1901-1967
Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Faculty -- Personal and professional papers.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. High Voltage Research Laboratory.
United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee
Consulting engineers.
Electrons
Sewage -- Purification -- Research -- 1937-1981.
Physicists. lcsh
AIP-ICOS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute Archives and Special Collections. M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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