november august american physicist worked advanced particle concepts physics physics notable development novel type particle accelerate graduate developed operational july world war took leave absence work engineering staff general_electric designed portable bombs joined manhattan_project responsible designing building water boiler nuclear intended serve laboratory instrument technical director worked advanced particle concepts notably employed general worked problem physics invented devices containing magnetic fields devices contain plagued previous designs contain exceeding limit early life born illinois november son entered earned bachelor_of_arts degree doctor philosophy phd writing thesis development generators air pressure applications functions nuclear reactions involved building testing generator experiments scattering graduation worked year working development ray tubes machines found frustrating ray research required high energies produced time accepted offer head physics department encouraged efforts create better particle result efforts operational july person accelerate electromagnetic induction reaching energies took longer device colleagues suggested names german december decided greek letter beta symbol meaning instrument went build increasing energy machine machine completed influence subsequent success thorough understanding physics involved design vacuum pumps power supply teamed provide theoretical analysis occur original machine donated world war world war took leave absence work development engineering staff general_electric designed versions supervised construction brought designed portable bombs engineering physics background placed near list scientists recruited manhattan_project set design atomic bomb august placed charge laboratory responsible designing building water boiler nuclear intended serve laboratory instrument test critical mass calculations effect materials primarily drawn group included provided help theoretical calculations designed enriched form dissolved water surrounded employ enriched fuel required world supply time sufficient quantity enriched arrived april commenced operation end june achieved design goals reorganized august concentrate creating type nuclear weapon studying large scale scale required special methods early november suggested employing gamma rays instead rays study august reorganization joint head specifically charged testing shipped arrived december january took pictures later life returned war technical director worked advanced particle concepts notably developed spiral sector focusing principle lies heart spiral ridge operation world team devised analysed beam process radio frequency acceleration fixed field machines led development beam employed general division pure applied science california worked physics hoped doorway control energy invented devices containing magnetic fields completed work professor retirement devices contain plagued previous designs contain exceeding limit chairman married children daughter son stephen retired moved florida died august madison wisconsin brain survived wife children papers awards honors honorary degree awarded awarded john price elected honorary degree honorary degree awarded physics awarded physics honorary degree
Donald William Kerst