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  Edwin Mattison McMillan, September 18, 1907—September 8, 1991 | By J. David Jackson and W. K. H. Panofsky | ...
McMillan also understood clearly the focusing effect of the radial fall-off of the magnetic field and the magnitude of the deviation from the synchronicity condition in the cyclotron produced by that radial fall-off, added to the relativistic mass increase.
McMillan recognized that when particles are accelerated in a radiofrequency field not at the crest of the radiofrequency amplitude but on the side of the waveform, the particles would be locked stably at a certain phase.
McMillan himself participated in the mapping of the neutron beam produced by high-energy deuterons on internal targets and was an advisory participant in innumerable experiments.
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 Boston Globe Online / Table of Contents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
McMillan, a physicist who retired in 1973 as head of the University of California's Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, last year was awarded the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest award for scientific achievement.
McMillan also was a pioneer in the theory of phase stability, a concept that made giant modern linear accelerators possible.
McMillan was also a major contributor to the development of the cyclotron, or atom smasher, used in the study of subatomic physics.
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 McMillan, Edwin Mattison
McMillan was educated at the California Institute of Technology and at Princeton University, where he earned a Ph.D. in 1932.
McMillan also made a major advance in the development of Ernest Lawrence's cyclotron, which in the early 1940s had run up against its theoretical limit.
McMillan was chairman of the National Academy of Sciences from 1968 to 1971.
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 Nobel Prize   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
McMillan was one of the most brilliant scientists to ever walk the Campus in Berkeley.
McMillan recreating the search for neptunium at the time of the announcement of the discovery, June 8, 1940.
The first transuranium element of which there was definite proof was produced by McMillan and Abelsson in May 1940 at the University of California, by irradiating uranium with neutrons with the aid of the cyclotron built by Lawrence.
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 Glenn Theodore Seaborg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In 1940 Edwin McMillan, assisted by Philip Abelson (later editor of Science magazine), confirmed and elucidated the phenomenon of nuclear fission announced by Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann in 1939.
McMillan also predicted the existence of element 94, plutonium, which he expected to find among the products of uranium under direct deuteron bombardment.
McMillan, however, was suddenly called away to do war work and eventually joined the program at Los Alamos to build nuclear bombs.
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 Nobel Prize Awarded To Nine Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Scientists
A multitude of experiments blossomed from this revelation and in 1940, Edwin McMillan and UC Berkeley chemist Philip Abelson, sifting through the swarm of radioactive species that fission produced, were able to identify -- via the nature of its radioactivity -- element 93.
Continuing his work, McMillan found evidence that mixed in with the neptunium he produced was element 94, but his studies were interrupted when he was called to MIT to help develop radar as part of the war effort.
McMillan's findings led to the invention of a new type of accelerator, which he named the "synchrotron." The giant circular accelerators used by physicists today are synchrotrons.
www.lbl.gov /Science-Articles/Archive/nine-nobel-laureates.html   (3384 words)

  
 Edwin M. McMillan - Biography
Edwin Mattison McMillan was born on 18th September, 1907, at Redondo Beach, California.
McMillan returned to the University of California Radiation Laboratory as Associate Director from 1954-1958, when he was raised to Deputy Director and finally Director, in the same year.
Professor McMillan is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and from 1954-1958 he served on the General Advisory Committee to the Atomic Energy Commission.
nobelprize.org /chemistry/laureates/1951/mcmillan-bio.html   (564 words)

  
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 McMillan, Edwin Mattison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In 1943 McMillan developed a method of overcoming the limitations of the cyclotron, the first accelerator, for which he shared, 20 years later, an Atoms for Peace award with I Veksler, director of the Soviet Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, who had come to the same discovery independently.
McMillan was born in Los Angeles and studied at the California Institute of Technology and Princeton.
From 1932 he was on the staff at the University of California, as professor 1946-73, except during World War II when he worked on radar and Seaborg took up his work at Berkeley.
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 Library: Nobel Laureates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In 1940 McMillan and Seaborg and their fellow-workers had already reported that when neptunium disintegrates it gives rise to an element 94.
M. Dr. Glenn Seaborg and Dr. Edwin McMillan on the day they were notified that they had won the Nobel Prize, October 1951.
Edwin McMillan became director of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory when E. Lawrence died in 1958.
www-library.lbl.gov /teid/tmLib/nobellaureates/LibSeaMcMillian.htm   (2966 words)

  
 Alsos: A History of the Synchroton
This article describes the development and construction of the first generation of synchrotrons by their American developer, Edwin McMillan.
A synchrotron is a high-energy particle accelerator, similar to a cyclotron, in which the magnetic field and/or the frequency are fluctuated during acceleration.
McMillan relates how he arived at the idea for the synchrotron, and he describes the institutional process that his proposed project underwent to obtain approval.
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 Edwin McMillan -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Edwin Mattison McMillan (September 18, 1907 – September 7, 1991) was the first scientist to produce a (Click link for more info and facts about transuranium element) transuranium element.
He was born in (Click link for more info and facts about Redondo Beach, California) Redondo Beach, California.
He was elected to the (An honorary American society of scientists created by President Lincoln during the American Civil War) National Academy of Sciences in 1947, serving as its chairman from 1968 to 1971.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ed/edwin_mcmillan1.htm   (305 words)

  
 ScienceMatters @ Berkeley. 1940: Edwin M. McMillan and the transuranium triumph
With the aid of the cyclotron though, McMillan and Abelson conducted their own fission experiments and eventually produced a true sample of element 93.
McMillan and his collaborators went on to find early evidence of element 94.
After the death of Lawrence in 1958, McMillan was appointed director of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley and Livermore.
sciencematters.berkeley.edu /archives/volume1/issue7/legacy.php   (534 words)

  
 McMillan, Edwin Mattison --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Her novels reached a wide audience in the United States and were praised for their story lines and characters that reflected with energy and fervor the lives of contemporary African Americans.
While still a teenager, he was hired by the New York City publishing house of Harper and Brothers and proceeded to create highly regarded pen-and-ink illustrations for the poetry of Robert Herrick and the works of Oliver Goldsmith and William Shakespeare.
Revered as England's premier architect of the early 20th century, Edwin Lutyens is known especially for his plan for the city of New Delhi, India.
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 History - Los Alamos - Oppenheimer Selected as Director   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He invited Edwin McMillan, the co-discoverer of the first transuranium elements, neptunium and plutonium.
McMillan, who had been sent by Lawrence to organize work at the Naval Underwater Sound Laboratory at Point Loma, Calif., had also helped Lawrence organize the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Radiation Laboratory.
In Chicago on Sept. 19, 1942, McMillan met with Oppenheimer, Manley, Enrico Fermi, Lawrence and Compton to plan the new laboratory.
www.childrenofthemanhattanproject.org /HISTORY/H-06c2.htm   (1140 words)

  
 Will of Lee McMillan, Wilcox County, Alabama - Apr 1920
At the death of my wife, Pearle O. McMillan, the balance on deposit in the First National Bank in Mobile, Alabama, shall be paid by it to my three sons Emmet Earle McMillan, Edwin Lee McMillan, and Cecil Malone McMillan share and share alike.
I have always loved all three alike and during my life have always been impartial to all and favored neither; and after my death it is my desire that neither one of the three receive more of my estate than the other.
Signed, sealed and declared to be his last will and testament by Lee McMillan in our presence, and we in his presence and in the presence of each other and at his request thereby set our names as witnesses the day and year written in the will.
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 AllRefer.com - Edwin Mattison McMillan (Physics, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 Bob Mcmillan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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McMillan is survived by his wife and their three children (Ann Bradford Chaikin, David Mattison McMilIan, and Stephen Walker McMillan)
Here the stable phase angle exists at the rising part of the rf amplitude; a particle whose energy and therefore velocity are below the norm arrives late and therefore experiences a larger radiofrequency amplitude, with the converse being true for a particle whose energy and velocity are above the norm.
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When Compton was appointed head of the Manhattan Project, he called a meeting in Chicago.
For this meeting he would invite Edwin McMillan, the co-discoverer of the first transuranium elements, neptunium and plutonium.
Together they decided that equipment would be purchased, leased or borrowed to set up a fast-neutron laboratory in a remote location where they would move the theoretical and experimental studies Oppenheimer and Manley had been overseeing.
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 Edwin Mattison Mc Millan Winner of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Edwin Mattison Mc Millan Winner of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Edwin Mattison McMillan — Biography (submitted by Chinnappan Baskar)
Edwin Mattison McMillan-The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1951 (submitted by Alex)
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 An Early History of LBNL by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Pictured Owen Chamberlain, Edwin McMillan, Emilio Segrè, Melvin Calvin, Donald Glaser, Luis Alvarez, and Glenn T. Seaborg on March 7, 1969.
Edwin M. McMillan, Edward Teller, Glenn T. Seaborg, John F. Kennedy and Pat Brown visit LBL.
Here are the Lab directors, Norris Bradbury, the Director of Los Alamos; John Foster of Livermore; Ed McMillan, Director of Lawrence Berkeley Lab; myself; John Kennedy; Edward Teller; Bob McNamara; and Harold Brown, who was the Director of Defense Research and Engineering.
dsd.lbl.gov /Seaborg.talks/65th-anniv/27.html   (304 words)

  
 Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical Information
Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical Information - Document #10186190 - Edwin M. McMillan, A biographical sketch
Edwin M. McMillan was one of the great scientists of the middle years of this century.
He made notable contributions to nuclear, and particle physics, the chemistry of transuranic elements, and accelerator physics.
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/home/www/imglib/http/htdocs/ImgLib/COLLECTIONS/BERKELEY-LAB/PEOPLE/GROUPS/tags/96602752: D. Cooksey D. Corson, Earnest O. Lawrence, R. Thornton, J. Backus, and W. Salisbury, L. Alvarez and E. McMillan.
Don Gow /home/www/imglib/http/htdocs/ImgLib/COLLECTIONS/BERKELEY-LAB/PEOPLE/GROUPS/tags/96703043: Edwin McMillan, Val Fitch, Murray Gell Mann, Victor Weisskopf, Geoffrey Chew, Sidney Drell.
/home/www/imglib/http/htdocs/ImgLib/COLLECTIONS/BERKELEY-LAB/PEOPLE/GROUPS/tags/96703133: Owen Chamberlain, Melvin Calvin, Glenn Seaborg, Edwin McMillan and Emilio Segre.
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