Lindsay Helmholz
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Lindsay Helmholz (November 11, 1909 – March 17, 1993) was an American physicist who participated in the Manhattan Project during World War II that created the atomic bomb. He earned a PhD in chemistry at Johns Hopkins University before studying under Linus Pauling at California Institute of Technology and becoming a professor at Dartmouth College. After World War II, he joined the faculty at Washington University in St. Louis where he continued his work with X-ray diffraction and retired in 1978.
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Lindsay Helmholz | |
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Born | (1909-11-11)November 11, 1909 |
Died | March 17, 1993(1993-03-17) (aged 83) |
Alma mater | Cornell University Johns Hopkins University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Chemistry |
Institutions | California Institute of Technology Dartmouth College Los Alamos Laboratory Washington University in St. Louis |
Thesis | Lattice energies of rubidium bromide and sodium chloride and electron affinities of their halogens (1933) |
Doctoral advisor | Joseph E. Mayer |
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