Enrico Fermi

Enrico Fermi

male, deceased (1954)
Nobel Prize in Physics, Italian-American, physicist, quantum mechanics, thermodynamicist, Erdős number 3…nuclearreactor
Enrico Fermi (September 29, 1901 - November 28, 1954) was an Italian physicist most noted for his work on the development of the first nuclear...
David Hahn

David Hahn

male, 33 years old
The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments, periodic table, United States Navy sailor, Nuclear accidents, background radiation, Radioactive Boy Scout…breeder reactor, nuclearreactor, nuclear fission, nuclear
David Hahn (born 1976) attempted to build a nuclear breeder reactor in 1994 in his backyard shed in Commerce Township, Michigan, a suburb of...
Samuel Glasstone

Samuel Glasstone

male, 112 years old
nuclear weapon, outer space, Manhattan Project, technical writer, nuclearreactor, space…The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, Effects of nuclear explosions, nuclear testing
Samuel Glasstone authored 40 popular textbooks on physical chemistry, rate reactions, nuclear weapons effects, nuclear reactor engineering, Mars,...
Karen Silkwood

Karen Silkwood

female, deceased (1974)
American road accident victim, nuclear safety, labor union, activist, nuclearreactor, cause of death disputed
Karen Silkwood (February 19, 1946 - November 13, 1974) was an American labor union activist and chemical technician at the Kerr-McGee plant near...

Frédéric Joliot-Curie

male, deceased (1958)
NE, physicist, Nobel Prize, second world war, French, atheist…nuclearreactor, nuclear fission
Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie né Joliot (March 19, 1900 - August 14, 1958) was a French physicist and Nobel laureate. Born in Paris, France, he was a g...
Philip Abelson

Philip Abelson

male, deceased (2004)
Washington State University, Marine propulsion, Death from respiratory failure, S-50, Nobel Prize, Manhattan Project…nuclearreactor, nuclear fission, nuclear power, Nuclear marine propulsion, nuclear weapon
Philip Hauge Abelson was an American physicist, editor of scientific literature, and science writer. Philip Abelson was born in 1913 in Tacoma,...
Willard Libby

Willard Libby

male, deceased (1980) (Berkeley, United States)
Grand Valley, Columbia University, University of Chicago, Princeton University, Willard Frank Libby, University of California…nuclearreactor
Willard Frank Libby (December 17, 1908 - September 8, 1980) was an American physical chemist, famous for his role in the 1949 development of...

Gernot Zippe

male, 91 years old
University of Virginia, physicist, nuclear proliferation, nuclear weapon, World War II, luftwaffe…nuclearreactor, Nuclear physicist
Gernot Zippe (born 1918, Austria) is an engineer responsible for leading the team which developed the Zippe-type centrifuge, a machine for the...
Yuri Bandazhevsky

Yuri Bandazhevsky

male, 52 years old
Anatomic Pathology, prisoner of conscience, Grodno, Clermont-Ferrand, Chernobyl disaster, Human Rights…nuclearreactor
Yuri Bandazhevsky (born on January 9 1957 in Belarus), former director of the Medical Institute in Gomel (Belarus), is a scientist working on...
George Klein

George Klein

male, deceased (1992)
Canadian of German descent, LL.D., B.A.Sc., Bachelor of Applied Science, Canadarm, quadriplegia…CANDU reactor, nuclearreactor
George Johnn Klein, O.C., M.B.E., B.A.Sc., LL.D., (August 15 1904 - November 4 1992) was a Hamilton, Ontario-born Canadian inventor who is often...