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Jesse Wakefield Beams (December 25, 1898 in Belle Plaine, Kansas – July 23, 1977) was an American physicist at the University of Virginia. Biography [ edit ] Beams completed his undergraduate B.A. in physics at Fairmount College in 1921 and his master's degree the next year at the University of Wisconsin . [2]
Jesse Beams (1898-1977) was an American physicist. Beams worked on the Manhattan Project through his research on centrifuges. His ultracentrifuge was used to demonstrate the separation of U-235.
Jesse W. Beams was awarded the National Medal of Science for sustained and ingenious contributions to the scientific development of high-speed centrifuges, a family of devices that are now widely applied in the physical and biological sciences, in medicine, and in engineering scale isotope-separation.
Jesse W. Beams 1898 - 1977. Jesse Wakefield Beams was born in Belle Plains, Kansas in 1898. He earned his bachelor's degree from Fairmont College (now Wichita State University) in 1921, and a Masters Degree in Mathematics from the University of wisconsin in 1923.
Abstract. Jesse Beams' contributions include construction of the first linear electron accelerator, development of the magnetic ultracentrifuge and application of the ultracentrifuge to the separation of Uranium isotopes. He also devised a more accurate apparatus for measuring G, the universal gravitational constant.
JESSE WAKEFIELD BEAMS December 25, 1898-July 25, 1977 BY WALTER GORDY JESSE W. BEAMS ranks among the greatest experimental physicists whom America has procluced, a group that ~nclucles such men as Joseph Henry, Robert W. Wood, and Ernest 0.
The American physicist Jesse W. Beams used a gas centrifuge to separate isotopes, specifically the isotopes of chlorine, for the first time in 1936. Much subsequent work focused on the separation of 235 UF 6 from 238 UF 6 , for which the gas centrifuge promised considerable savings in energy costs.
