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    Alvin Martin Weinberg (/ˈwaɪnbɜːrɡ/; April 20, 1915 – October 18, 2006) was an American nuclear physicist who was the administrator of Oak Ridge National...
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    The Alvin Weinberg Foundation was a registered UK charity, operating under the name Weinberg Next Nuclear, that campaigned for research and development...
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  • Szilárd and Eugene Paul Wigner 1960 – Alvin M. Weinberg and Walter Henry Zinn 1961 – Sir John Cockcroft 1963 – Edwin M. McMillan and Vladimir I. Veksler 1967...
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    of the term "Big Science" is usually attributed to an article by Alvin M. Weinberg, then director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, published in Science...
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    Russell 1978 – Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky; Harold M. Agnew 1980 – Rudolf E. Peierls; Alvin M. Weinberg 1981 – W. Bennett Lewis 1982 – Herbert L. Anderson;...
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    is resolved can we expect nuclear energy to be fully accepted." — Alvin M. Weinberg The term "radiophobia" is also sometimes used in the arguments against...
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  • Belgian comics artist Alvin M. Weinberg (1915 – 2006), nuclear physicist and administrator of Manhattan Project Binyamin Weinberg (fl. 1972 – 1984), Israeli...
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    Reactors. Th-232/U-233 is best suited to molten salt reactors (MSR). Alvin M. Weinberg pioneered the use of the MSR at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. At...
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    Joaquin Delta College). His maternal uncle was nuclear physicist Alvin M. Weinberg. Goleman attended Amherst College, graduating magna cum laude. He...
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    for a proposed fleet of long-range bombers, but it was never used. Alvin M. Weinberg was named Director of Research, ORNL, and in 1955 Director of the...
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  • reactor, was covered in "The Second Nuclear Era" (1985) pages 62–64, by Alvin M. Weinberg and others. The concept has several potential advantages over conventional...
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  • nuclear waste are contained in atomic fission reactor rods. This Alvin M. Weinberg et al design has a liquid fuel instead of a solid fuel. The gas plenum...
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  • reactor, was covered in "The Second Nuclear Era" (1985), a book by Alvin M. Weinberg and others. Liquid fluoride thorium reactor Energy amplifier MYRRHA...
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    Slotin (1995 UQ16)". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 8 May 2012. Alvin M. Weinberg and Eugene P. Wigner. The Physical Theory of Neutron Chain Reactors...
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    Manhattan Project, Wigner led a team that included J. Ernest Wilkins Jr., Alvin M. Weinberg, Katharine Way, Gale Young and Edward Creutz. The group's task was...
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    United States. B-146759. 1963-02-28. Retrieved 20 February 2020. Alvin M. Weinberg, The First Nuclear Era: The Life and Times of a Technological Fixer...
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  • ANS Alvin M. Weinberg Medal for outstanding international technical and policy leadership in nuclear science and technology, 2001. Alvin M. Weinberg Modern...
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    the Nuclear Power Division reporting to Mills. He began work with Alvin M. Weinberg, the Oak Ridge director of research, to initiate and develop the Oak...
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    on 8 September 2011. It is named after American nuclear physicist Alvin M. Weinberg, who pioneered thorium MSR research. Moltex Energy's stable-salt reactor...
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    Laboratory on YouTube, a film published by Atomic Energy Commission Alvin Weinberg's Molten Salt Reactor Experiment on YouTube An Account of Oak Ridge National...
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  • energy, including Georges Charpak, Glenn T. Seaborg, Edward Teller, Alvin M. Weinberg, Eugene Wigner, Ted Taylor, and Jeff Eerkens. There are also scientists...
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    the Bureau of Ships, the Nuclear Power Division, he began work with Alvin M. Weinberg, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) director of research, to...
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    nuclear weapons testing, water desalinization, and disarmament. Alvin M. Weinberg, who advocated inherent safety in reactor design, recounted an incident...
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  • Henri Laborit 1964: Joost A. M. Meerloo 1965: Henry Lee Smith Jr. 1966: Alvin M. Weinberg 1967: J. Bronowski 1968: Alastair M. Taylor 1969: Lancelot Law...
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  • (Ph.D. 1973) – professor of anatomy at Dalhousie University Alvin M. Weinberg (B.S. 1935, M.S. 1936, Ph.D. 1939) – nuclear physicist, administrator at...
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  • Ajzenberg-Selove A Matter of Choices: Memoirs of a Female Physicist 1994 Alvin M. Weinberg The First Nuclear Era: The Life and Times of a Technological Fixer...
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  • including Lewis I. Strauss, director of the US Atomic Commission and Alvin M. Weinberg, director of ORNL, participated in the meeting. The topics discussed...
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  • classical music satirist. Laurie Taitt, 72, British sprint hurdler. Alvin M. Weinberg, 91, American Manhattan Project scientist and former director of Oak...
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    Panarella 2009, p. 353. Weinberg 1994, pp. 11–12. Szanton 1992, pp. 217–218. Weinberg 1994, pp. 22–24. "Alvin M. Weinberg's Interview". Manhattan Project...
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    nucleosynthesis of heavy elements in stars. In the late 1960s, at the urging of Alvin M. Weinberg, he pioneered studies on how to use technology to conserve energy...
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