Samuel King Allison
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Samuel King Allison (November 13, 1900 – September 15, 1965) was an American physicist, most notable for his role in the Manhattan Project, for which he was awarded the Medal for Merit. A professor who studied X-rays, he was director of the Metallurgical Laboratory from 1943 until 1944, and later worked at the Los Alamos Laboratory — where he "rode herd" on the final stages of the project as part of the "Cowpuncher Committee",[1] and read the countdown for the detonation of the Trinity nuclear test. After the war, he returned to the University of Chicago to direct the Institute for Nuclear Studies and was involved in the "scientists' movement", lobbying for civilian control of nuclear weapons.
Samuel King Allison | |
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Born | (1900-11-13)November 13, 1900 Chicago |
Died | September 15, 1965(1965-09-15) (aged 64) Chicago |
Citizenship | American |
Alma mater | University of Chicago (B.S. 1921, Ph.D. 1923) |
Known for | Manhattan Project |
Awards | Medal for Merit (1946) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley University of Chicago Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Thesis | Atomic Stability III, the Effects of Electrical Discharge and High Temperature (1923) |
Doctoral advisor | William Draper Harkins |
Doctoral students | James Cronin Nicholas M. Smith |