George Ernest Gibson

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name = George Ernest Gibson

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birth_date = birth date|1884|11|9
birth_place = Edinburgh, Scotland
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death_date = death date and age|1959|8|26|1884|11|9
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field = chemist
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alma_mater = University of Edinburgh B.Sc.
University of Breslau Ph.D
doctoral_advisor = Otto Lummer
doctoral_students = William Giauque
Glenn T. Seaborg
Wendell Mitchell Latimer
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George Ernest Gibson (November 9, 1884– August 26, 1959) was a Scottish born American nuclear chemist.

Early years

George Ernest Gibson was born Edinburgh, Scotland and educated partly in Germany where attended a gymnasium in Darmstadt, finishing his schooling in Edinburgh. He studied chemistry at the University of Edinburgh receiving his B.Sc. in 1906. He worked with Otto Lummer at the University of Breslau where he received his Ph.D in 1911, and stayed there as lecturer for two additional years before returning to the University of Edinburgh in 1912.

Work

In 1913 he became Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Two of his students were awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry, William Giauque and Glenn T. Seaborg. In 1927 he stayed a year with Walter Heitler in Heidelberg. He retired in 1954 and died in 1959.

References

* [http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=hb2t1nb146&doc.view=content&chunk.id=div00013&toc.depth=1&brand=oac&anchor.id=0 biography form the Online Archive of California]