Robert Cornog (Paperback)


High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Alden Cornog (1912-1998), was a physicist and engineer who helped develop the atomic bomb and missile systems from the Snark to the Minuteman. A native of Portland, Oregon, who grew up in Iowa City, Cornog earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Iowa. After working for the United States Bureau of Reclamation on the Boulder Dam design, he studied at UC Berkeley for his doctorate in physics. His graduate student research led to the co-discovery, with Luis Alvarez, of hydrogen and helium of atomic mass 3 (tritium and helium-3). He also assisted Emilio Segre in the discovery of element 85, astatine.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Alden Cornog (1912-1998), was a physicist and engineer who helped develop the atomic bomb and missile systems from the Snark to the Minuteman. A native of Portland, Oregon, who grew up in Iowa City, Cornog earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Iowa. After working for the United States Bureau of Reclamation on the Boulder Dam design, he studied at UC Berkeley for his doctorate in physics. His graduate student research led to the co-discovery, with Luis Alvarez, of hydrogen and helium of atomic mass 3 (tritium and helium-3). He also assisted Emilio Segre in the discovery of element 85, astatine.

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Imprint

Betascript Publishing

Country of origin

United States

Release date

August 2010

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First published

August 2010

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Dimensions

152 x 229 x 6mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback - Trade

Pages

96

ISBN-13

978-6132415554

Barcode

9786132415554

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6132415556



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