William Duane (physicist)
- William Duane (physicist)
Infobox Scientist
name = William Duane
title =
birth_date = birth date|1872|2|17|mf=y
birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
death_date = death date and age|1935|03|07|1872|02|17
death_place = U.S.
nationality = United States
field = Physics
work_institutions = Harvard University
alma_mater = Berlin University
doctoral_advisor = Walther Nernst
doctoral_students =
known_for = Duane-Hunt law
influences = Madame Curie
influenced = Alfred Lande
prizes = Comstock Prize
footnotes =
William Duane (February 17, 1872 – March 7, 1935) was an American physicist. A coworker of Marie Curie, he developed a method for generating quantities of radon in the laboratory.
Biography
Death
Starting in 1925, Duane began suffering a continual decline in health brought on by diabetes. This culminated in his death on 7 March 1935 due to his second paralytic stroke.
Honours and awards
The physics department building in the University of Colorado at Boulder is named after him. Duane won the 1923 [http://www.sns.ias.edu/~jnb/Vitae/NASaward/nasaward.html Comstock Prize.]
Bibliography
References
External links
* [http://books.nap.edu/html/biomems/wduane.pdf Biography/Bibliography by Nobel Laureate P.W. Bridgman]
* [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9031315/Duane-Hunt-law Britannica article on Duane-Hunt law]
* [http://physics.nist.gov/GenInt/Curie/1927.html Duane's "Radon Cow" described]
* [http://jnm.snmjournals.org/cgi/content/full/44/8/1362 The Birth of Nuclear Medicine Instrumentation: Blumgart and Yens, 1925 -- Patton 44 (8): 1362 -- The Journal of Nuclear Medicine]
* [http://www.swsahs.nsw.gov.au/healthser/liv/NucMed/History.asp Outline of history of nuclear medicine]
* [http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/9/5/158 The Transfer in Quanta of Radiation Momentum to Matter -- Duane 9 (5): 158 -- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences]
* [http://philsci.com/book5-3.htm Discussion of Duane's quantum theory of diffraction in "History of Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Science" by Thomas J. Hickey with free downloads]
* [http://www.sns.ias.edu/~jnb/Vitae/NASaward/nasaward.html Comstock Prize in Physics]
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