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Physicists

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  • Arthur J. Ruhlig, 1912-2003, US-american Physicist, one of the founding fathers of nuclear fission, source: https://www.lanl.gov/media/news/0623-dt-fusion-experiment; born in 1912 in Michigan, While Arthur (Art) Ruhlig never received wide acclaim for his initial observation of deuterium-tritium fusion, he was an important contributor to essential physics for many years. Born June 13, 1912, in Michigan, he graduated from high school in Fort Wayne, Indiana, before setting off for the University of Michigan. Studying under H. Richard Crane, Ruhlig was awarded a doctorate in physics in January 1938 for his thesis, “The Passage of Fast Electrons and Positrons Through Lead.” Ruhlig’s critical publication in Physical Review, “Search for Gamma-Rays from the Deuteron-Deuteron Reaction,” with its observation of DT fusion, followed in August of that year.

Ruhlig’s career spanned government and private industry research across a few disciplines. He joined the Naval Research Laboratory in 1940 as an electrical engineer, and he was with the Laboratory for more than 15 years. In 1946, he was with the Rocket Sonde Research Branch, an arm of the Naval Research Laboratory charged with developing rocketry that uses instruments to study the atmosphere. He went on to become the branch head first of the radiation division and then the electron tubes group. Much of his work from this time was and remains classified, though he occasionally published in open literature. In a serendipitous turn, Ruhlig was a member of a Naval Research Laboratory team that supported Los Alamos’ 1951 Operation Greenhouse in the Pacific. Ruhlig led a diagnostic group responsible for amplifiers and transmission lines. Having been the first to observe DT fusion in 1938, he was thus among the first to observe ignited burning fusion plasma as deployed in the series of thermonuclear tests. Ruhlig developed a formula, widely used for decades, to infer the temperature of a burning plasma from the observed neutron spectrum. In 1956, Ruhlig joined the engineering and research company Aeronutronic (later purchased by Ford and merged with Philco), managing a radar and electronics laboratory. In 1960, Ruhlig was named manager of physics and computing for what was now the Aeronutronic division of Ford Motor Company in Newport Beach, California, and then in 1961 was named a senior staff scientist. The company noted Ruhlig’s “wide-ranging competence” on display during his tenure there in the 1960s, including his valuable role in developing a laser system proposal for the U.S. Air Force. He could fluently read in German, French and Russian and was praised as a “brilliant scientist,” whose “company loyalty and (…) personal and professional integrity are of the highest order.” A family-oriented man, Ruhlig married his wife, Emily, in 1934, and they were married for nearly 67 years before her death in 2001. Arthur Ruhlig died in 2003 in Santa Ana, California. The Los Alamos-Duke University research team replicating the experiment connected with Ruhlig’s daughter Vivian Lamb, living in North Carolina. She had been searching family history to share with her granddaughter, and, seeing the team’s request for information about Ruhlig online, reached out to the research team and graciously shared her time and memories. She also passed along a picture of her hardworking father, likely from sometime following his 1938 work — a portrait of, in Vivian’s words, the “consummate scientist,” one who paired a “lifelong curiosity about problems in physics” with abiding “respect for careful scientific experiments.”

  • nuclear insecurity or Nuclear stochastics [55] [56] [57][2]
  • Antisymmetrized molecular dynamics – see [58]
  • Curie plot – a means to count the number of observed particles in interval ranges, as in a histogram of particle energies
  • Gamma Ray Emission Spectrum (data page) an index of gamma ray emission energies (the kind measured in Gamma spectroscopy). For example, K-40's emission is a broad peak at around 1461keV.
  • Geiger-Klemperer ball counter – apparently commonly used in research in the 1930s; see this Google search
  • Hydrogen-boron fusion (H-B) fusion – perhaps see Aneutronic fusion?
  • Introduction to radioactivity (or Introduction to radioactive decay) as the subject can be difficult for some people.
  • Methods in nuclear physics
  • Nuclear energetics – Calculations of energy released from all types of nuclear reactions (fission, fusion, capture, decay). Part of Nuclear reaction. Uses Nuclear binding energy as the theoretical basis and describes how it is applied in multiple reactions and species. Consolidation from Decay heat, Decay energy, Nuclear reaction#Energy Conservation, and Nuclear fission#Energetics. Finally, discuss the measurements and simulation of complicated models. This article should not discuss practical aspects of harvesting or removing heat from reactions. See "Fundamentals of Nuclear Science and Engineering" (PDF).
  • Nuclear fuel cell – Would be nice for people to explain it, and whether it would be theoretically possible or even efficient; Seems it might just be an imaginary tale of Hollywood
  • Pion photoproduction
  • PM2A – the first portable nuclear reactor, used near Thule Air Base, Greenland for Project Iceworm from 1960 to 1966 by the Army Nuclear Power Program; see this picture (currently redirect)
  • Principles of Nuclear Magnetism – some of Nuclear magnetic moment may be intimidating, but there are many links from there
  • Pycnodeuterium – a molecular form of deuterium used in cold fusion reactors (currently redirect to Deuterium)
  • Radiopurity – Freedom from radioactive contamination. The word is used in numerous low-background physics experiments' articles, and might be worth a brief definition. Or maybe a redirect?
  • Real physical nuclear models
  • Reverse Compton Edge
  • Upgraded SG-II & SG-III – SG-III is a laser facility (200kJ/48 beams) which is expected to be completed in 2012. [59] [60]
  • Bragg-Kleeman Rule - where R (1 and 2) are the ranges of particle 1 and 2, (1 and 2) is the density of the medium particle 1 or 2 is traveling through, and A is the atomic weight for particle 1 or 2. It is a relation useful in detection methods for particles. It is discussed briefly in Nuclear Electronics by P.W. Nicholson. I was searching for this article because I had a question about the rule, so I can't really provide much more information.

Quantum information and computation

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Other physics terms

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References

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  1. ^ Newtonian Microeconomics A Dynamic Extension to Neoclassical Micro Theory ISBN 978-3-319-83610-2
  2. ^ Stochastic gradient descent for optimization for nuclear systems ISBN 2045-2322 Parameter error in {{ISBN}}: length; Stochastic Effects; Application in Nuclear Physics ISBN 1232-5309 Parameter error in {{ISBN}}: length; The Medical Anthropologies in Brazil ISBN 9783861355687
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  5. ^ Plasma Chemistry. Cambridge University Press. 2008. p. 229. ISBN 9781139471732. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017.
  6. ^ BAPS.2013.DFD.R8.4[1]
  7. ^ BPAS.2015.MAR.V1.285[2]
  8. ^ BAPS.2015.APR.T1.26[3]
  9. ^ Ammon, Martin; Erdmenger, Johanna (2015). Gauge/Gravity Duality: Foundations and Applications. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107010345.
  10. ^ Probst, Jonas (2018). Applications of the Gauge/Gravity Duality (Springer Theses). Springer International Publishing AG. ISBN 978-3319939667.
  11. ^ Kerner, Patrick (2012). Gauge/Gravity Duality: A Road Towards Reality. Südwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschulschriften. ISBN 978-3838134734.