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    Gregory Breit (Ukrainian: Григорій Альфредович Брейт-Шнайдер, Russian: Григорий Альфредович Брейт-Шнайдер, romanized: Grigory Alfredovich Breit-Shneider;...
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  • The Breit equation, or Dirac–Coulomb–Breit equation, is a relativistic wave equation derived by Gregory Breit in 1929 based on the Dirac equation, which...
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  • The relativistic Breit–Wigner distribution (after the 1936 nuclear resonance formula of Gregory Breit and Eugene Wigner) is a continuous probability distribution...
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  • Obstetrician Gary Breit, Canadian musician Kevin Breit, Canadian musician Gregory Breit (1899–1981), American physicist Henryk Breit (1906–1941), Polish...
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    Columbia offered him a faculty position. In collaboration with Gregory Breit, he developed the Breit–Rabi equation and predicted that the Stern–Gerlach experiment...
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    principles of nuclear fission. Together with Gregory Breit, Wheeler developed the concept of the Breit–Wheeler process. He is best known for popularizing...
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  • the latter case the Breit frame gets related to infinite-momentum frame. It is named after the American physicist Gregory Breit. Center-of-momentum frame...
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    included Yuri Krutkov, Viktor Trkal, Adriaan Fokker, Paul Epstein, and Gregory Breit. Other young foreign scientists who spent an extended period in his...
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    The Breit–Wheeler process or Breit–Wheeler pair production is a proposed physical process in which a positron–electron pair is created from the collision...
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  • relativistic wave equations. This prediction was first discussed by Gregory Breit in 1928 and later by Erwin Schrödinger in 1930 as a result of analysis...
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    goes above c, the group velocity must go below it. In 1925, Americans Gregory Breit and Merle A. Tuve first mapped the Heaviside layer's variations in altitude...
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    ionosphere. The basic ionosonde technology was invented in 1925 by Gregory Breit and Merle A. Tuve and further developed in the late 1920s by a number...
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  • Tienen, Belgium) is a Belgian particle physicist. He is the Hilldale and Gregory Breit Distinguished Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Director...
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    not pursue the idea past the theoretical stage. In the late 1920s, Gregory Breit and Merle Tuve at the Bureau of Terrestrial Magnetism constructed a...
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  • his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1941, with a thesis supervised by Gregory Breit. During World War II, he joined the Submarine Operations Research Group...
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  • obtained there his PhD in physics in 1927. In 1925, with physicist Gregory Breit, Tuve used radio waves to measure the height of the ionosphere and probe...
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    smaller than the electron moment. In 1931, theoretical analysis by Gregory Breit and Isidor Isaac Rabi showed that this apparatus could be used to measure...
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  • where he studied nuclear physics under theoretical nuclear physicist Gregory Breit. His thesis focused on the splitting of protons with protons, and was...
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    calculations—key to calculations of critical mass and weapon detonation—from Gregory Breit, who had quit on 18 May 1942 because of concerns over lax operational...
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    weapon detonation—to Gregory Breit, who was given the title of "Co-ordinator of Rapid Rupture", and Oppenheimer as an assistant. But Breit disagreed with other...
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    travelling fellowship for the year 37/38 which he spent at working with Gregory Breit and Eugene Wigner. During this time, Schwinger, who previously had already...
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    Hasbrouck Van Vleck, Vladimir K. Zworykin 1967—Jesse Beams, Francis Birch, Gregory Breit, Louis Plack Hammett, George Kistiakowsky 1968—Paul Doughty Bartlett...
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    testing. In 1926, pioneering accelerator physicists Merle Tuve and Gregory Breit built a 5 million volt Tesla coil as a linear particle accelerator....
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    Awards. Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-30. "Gregory Breit". The Franklin Institute Awards. Franklin Institute. 15 January 2014...
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  • Sonoluminescence is discovered at the University of Cologne. Gregory Breit and John A. Wheeler describe the Breit–Wheeler process. Henri Coandă obtains his first patent...
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    Briggs, its membership consisted of Urey, Pegram, Tuve, Beams, Gunn, and Gregory Breit. The scientific subcommittee met for the first time on June 13, 1940...
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  • Edmund Clifton Stoner (1899–1968) John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899–1980) Gregory Breit (1899–1981) Otto Halpern [de] (1899–1982) Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim (1899–1985)...
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    Theoretical Physics. There were only 34 invited attendees, but they included Gregory Breit, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, George Gamow, Donald Menzel, John von Neumann...
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  • An early theoretical treatment of level crossing effect was given by Gregory Breit. Observation of the Hanle effect on the light emitted by the Sun is...
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  • Library & Archives George O. Zimmerman collection of lecture notes by Gregory Breit and Lars Onsager, circa 1960-1961, Niels Bohr Library & Archives Lars...
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