Robert Jemison van De Graaff was a pioneering experimental atomic physicist. He was one of the first to smash the atom in his atom-smashing device: the Van de Graaff Generator, an electrostatic generator also known as a particle accelerator. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and started his post-doc career at Princeton University then moved to MIT where he remained until retiring to the company he co-founded: High Voltage Engineering Corporation, which manufactured over 500 particle accelerators. His devices were the first to treat cancer in a public hospital and they were used to help find isotopes for medical use and for the Manhattan Project, among other things.
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Robert Jemison van De Graaff was a pioneering experimental atomic physicist. He was one of the first to smash the atom in his atom-smashing device: the Van de Graaff Generator, an electrostatic generator also known as a particle accelerator. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and started his post-doc career at Princeton University then moved to MIT where he remained until retiring to the company he co-founded: High Voltage Engineering Corporation, which manufactured over 500 particle accelerators. His devices were the first to treat cancer in a public hospital and they were used to help find isotopes for medical use and for the Manhattan Project, among other things.
Grave marker photos needed. Map to plot available. Request made by university researcher writing Van de Graaff's biography.
Grave marker photos needed. Map to plot available. Request made by university researcher writing Van de Graaff's biography.
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