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Henry DeWolf Smyth

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Henry DeWolf "Harry" Smyth (May 1, 1898 – September 11, 1986) was an American physicist, diplomat, and bureaucrat. [1]

36 relations: Academic genealogy of theoretical physicists, Allen Shenstone, Atoms for Peace Award, Calutron, Charles Henry Smyth Jr., Charles Phelps Smyth, De Wolf, Ernest Rutherford, George B. Pegram, Hans Blix, Henry Smyth, History of nuclear weapons, Index of physics articles (H), Index of World War II articles (H), John Archibald Wheeler, Karl Taylor Compton, Kenneth Bainbridge, List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1931, Manhattan Project, Metallurgical Laboratory, Montreal Laboratory, Nuclear weapon, Nuclear weapon design, Princeton University Press, Richard Feynman, Robert R. Wilson, Rubby Sherr, S-1 Executive Committee, Smyth, Smyth Report, Suzanne Staggs, United States Atomic Energy Commission, United States v. Progressive, Inc., William L. Laurence, 1945 in literature, 1986.

Academic genealogy of theoretical physicists

The following is an academic genealogy of theoretical physicists and is constructed by following the pedigree of thesis advisors.

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Allen Shenstone

Allen Goodrich Shenstone, (July 27, 1893 – February 16, 1980) was a Canadian physicist.

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Atoms for Peace Award

The Atoms for Peace Award was established in 1955 through a grant of $1,000,000 by the Ford Motor Company Fund.

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Calutron

A calutron is a mass spectrometer originally designed and used for separating the isotopes of uranium.

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Charles Henry Smyth Jr.

Charles Henry Smyth Jr. (March 31, 1866 – April 4, 1937) was an American geologist.

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Charles Phelps Smyth

Charles Phelps "Charlie" Smyth (February 10, 1895 – March 18, 1990) was an American chemist.

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De Wolf

De Wolf is a Dutch surname meaning "the wolf".

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Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, HFRSE LLD (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand-born British physicist who came to be known as the father of nuclear physics.

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George B. Pegram

George Braxton Pegram (October 24, 1876 – August 12, 1958) was an American physicist who played a key role in the technical administration of the Manhattan Project.

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Hans Blix

Hans Martin Blix (born 28 June 1928) is a Swedish diplomat and politician for the Liberal People's Party.

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Henry Smyth

Henry Smyth may refer to.

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History of nuclear weapons

Nuclear weapons possess enormous destructive power from nuclear fission or combined fission and fusion reactions.

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Index of physics articles (H)

The index of physics articles is split into multiple pages due to its size.

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Index of World War II articles (H)

# H-hour (D-day).

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John Archibald Wheeler

John Archibald Wheeler (July 9, 1911 – April 13, 2008) was an American theoretical physicist.

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Karl Taylor Compton

Karl Taylor Compton (September 14, 1887 – June 22, 1954) was a prominent American physicist and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1930 to 1948.

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Kenneth Bainbridge

Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge (July 27, 1904 – July 14, 1996) was an American physicist at Harvard University who did work on cyclotron research.

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List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1931

List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1931.

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Manhattan Project

The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons.

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Metallurgical Laboratory

The Metallurgical Laboratory (or Met Lab) was a scientific laboratory at the University of Chicago that was established in February 1942 to study and use the newly discovered chemical element plutonium.

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Montreal Laboratory

The Montreal Laboratory in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, was established by the National Research Council of Canada during World War II to undertake nuclear research in collaboration with the United Kingdom, and to absorb some of the scientists and work of the Tube Alloys nuclear project in Britain.

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Nuclear weapon

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb).

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Nuclear weapon design

Nuclear weapon designs are physical, chemical, and engineering arrangements that cause the physics package of a nuclear weapon to detonate.

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Princeton University Press

Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University.

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Richard Feynman

Richard Phillips Feynman (May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics for which he proposed the parton model.

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Robert R. Wilson

Robert Rathbun Wilson (March 4, 1914 – January 16, 2000) was an American physicist known for his work on the Manhattan Project during World War II, as a sculptor, and as an architect of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), where he was the first director from 1967 to 1978.

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Rubby Sherr

Rubby Sherr (September 14, 1913 – July 8, 2013) was an American nuclear physicist who co-invented a key component of the first nuclear weapon while participating in the Manhattan Project during the Second World War.

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S-1 Executive Committee

The Uranium Committee was a committee of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) that succeeded the Advisory Committee on Uranium and later evolved into the S-1 Section of the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), when that organization absorbed the NDRC in June 1941, and the S-1 Executive Committee in June 1942.

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Smyth

Smyth is an early variant of the common surname Smith.

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Smyth Report

The Smyth Report is the common name of an administrative history written by American physicist Henry DeWolf Smyth about the Manhattan Project, the Allied effort to develop atomic bombs during World War II.

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Suzanne Staggs

Suzanne Staggs is an American physicist, currently the Henry DeWolf Smyth Professor at Princeton University.

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United States Atomic Energy Commission

The United States Atomic Energy Commission, commonly known as the AEC, was an agency of the United States government established after World War II by U.S. Congress to foster and control the peacetime development of atomic science and technology.

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United States v. Progressive, Inc.

United States of America v. Progressive, Inc., Erwin Knoll, Samuel Day, Jr., and Howard Morland, 467 F. Supp. 990 (W.D. Wis. 1979), was a lawsuit brought against The Progressive magazine by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) in 1979.

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William L. Laurence

William Leonard Laurence (March 7, 1888 – March 19, 1977) was a Jewish Lithuanian-born American journalist known for his science journalism writing of the 1940s and 1950s while working for The New York Times.

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1945 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1945.

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1986

The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_DeWolf_Smyth

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