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Lot of 7 Signatures of Atomic Science Interest

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Lot of 7 Signatures of Atomic Science Interest
<B>Lot of Seven Signatures of Atomic Science Interest,</B></I> including: <B>Ernest O. Lawrence</B></I> (1901- 1958) was an American physicist and Nobel Laureate best known for his invention, utilization, and improvement of the cyclotron beginning in 1929, and his later work in uranium-isotope separation in the Manhattan Project ) inventor of the first cyclotron; <B>Glenn T. Seaborg</B></I> (1912-1999) won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements", contributed to the discovery and isolation of ten elements, developed the actinide concept and was the first to propose the actinide series which led to the current arrangement of the Periodic Table of the Elements; <B>Lewis L. Strauss</B></I> (1896- 1974) was a wealthy businessman who took on a leadership role in the wartime navy, rising to the rank of Rear Admiral. He was the chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission between 1953 and 1958. Strauss is perhaps most remembered as the driving force in the hearings in which J. Robert Oppenheimer's security clearance was revoked; <B>Robert F. Bacher</B></I> (1905-2004) was an American nuclear physicist and one of the leaders of the Manhattan Project.; <B>L. A. DuBridge</B></I> (1901 - 1994) was a U.S. educator and physicist. He became the founding director of the Radiation Laboratory at MIT in 1940, and served until 1945; <B>George Gamow</B></I> (1904 -1968) was a Russian born physicist and cosmologist. He discovered quantum tunneling, worked on radioactive decay of the atomic nucleus, star formation, stellar nucleosynthesis, big bang nucleosynthesis, nucleocosmogenesis and genetics.; and, <B>David Eli Lilienthal</B></I> (1899-1981) a capable and controversial American public official. From 1947 to 1949, Lilienthal chaired the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), and was one of the pioneers of civilian control in the American atomic energy program. He hoped to administer a program which would "harness the atom" for peaceful purposes, principally atomic power. The signatures are on cards mounted on stiff card stock with a brief typed biographical sketch. All are very fine.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Flat Material, Small (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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