Robert Jemison Van de Graaff (December 20, 1901 – January 16, 1967) was an American physicist, noted for his design and construction of high-voltage Van...
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A Van de Graaff generator is an electrostatic generator which uses a moving belt to accumulate electric charge on a hollow metal globe on the top of an...
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for physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff, whose groundbreaking work includes the invention of the Van de Graaff generator. Van de Graaff is one of the largest...
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may have been that the device's inventor, the American physicist Robert Van de Graaff, died in 1967, which was widely reported in the media. Among the...
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accelerators. The two most common types are the Van de Graaf generator invented by Robert Van de Graaff in 1929, and the Cockcroft-Walton accelerator invented...
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Adrian Van Vinceler Van de Graaff (September 6, 1891 – March 14, 1936) was an American college football player and coach. He played halfback for the Alabama...
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Peter Van de Graaff (born November 9, 1961) is an American singer and radio personality. He is best known as the host of the Beethoven Satellite Network...
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The Jemison–Van de Graaff Mansion, also known as the Jemison–Van de Graaf–Burchfield House, is a historic house in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States...
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Van de Graaf, also spelled van de Graaff, van der Graaf or van der Graaff, is a Dutch surname. Notable people with this surname include the following:...
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Mullink, Freek van de Graaff and Jan van de Graaff. The latter two were also born in 1944 and are unrelated to Bobbie. "Robert van de Graaf". RowingOne...
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town is named after then-governor of the Cape Colony, Cornelis Jacob van de Graaff, and his wife. The town was originally established as a trading post...
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noted for developing rotational radiation therapy. Together with Robert J. Van de Graaff, he developed one of the first million-volt X-ray generators. He...
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1927. In 1933, Round Hill was the site of Robert J. Van de Graaff's electrical experiments. Van de Graaff had been brought to MIT from Princeton in 1931...
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Giedo van der Garde, Dutch Formula One racing driver Van de Graaff generator, high voltage electrostatic generator developed by Robert J. Van de Graaff Video...
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Electrostatic generator (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
that were accessed at the edges. The Van de Graaff generator was invented by American physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff in 1929 at MIT as a particle accelerator...
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William Travis "Bully" Van de Graaff (October 25, 1895 – April 26, 1977) was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator....
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scientists, including physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff. There in 1933 he built the world's largest air-insulated Van de Graaff generator (now located at the...
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Images Online". syllabus.med.unc.edu. Van de Graaff & Fox 1989, p. 933. Van de Graaff & Fox 1989, p. 934. Van de Graaff & Fox 1989, p. 933-4. Pack PE (2016)...
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in 1929. Following this separation, professors Philip Morse and Robert Van de Graaff joined the faculty. Later, theoretical physics grew in popularity...
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doi:10.1177/147470490900700402. Van De Graaff & Fox 1989, pp. 927–931. Van De Graaff & Fox 1989, p. 935. Van De Graaff & Fox 1989, p. 936. Jequier, Anne...
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electrical charge with the droplet method. This method was improved later by Robert Andrews Millikan. In 1900, Townsend became a Wykeham Professor of Physics...
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The Westinghouse Atom Smasher was a 5 million volt Van de Graaff electrostatic nuclear accelerator operated by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation at...
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Suzanna Catharina de Graaff (born Suzanna Catharina Hemmes; 5 May 1905, in Rotterdam – 25 November 1968), was a Dutch woman who claimed to be a fifth...
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April 2011. Retrieved 2 June 2012. University of Florida, Past Presidents, Robert Q. Marston (1974–1984 Archived 27 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine....
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Coleman Hargrove Van de Graaff (September 7, 1893 – January 2, 1938) was a college football player. He was an advocate for an airport in Tuscaloosa. Hargrove...
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versions of Dutch names (as in Dick Van Dyke, George Vancouver, Martin Van Buren, Robert J. Van de Graaff), the "van" is almost always capitalised in the...
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Alexander Sotirov, computer security researcher Robert Van de Graaff, physicist known for inventing the Van de Graaff generator Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia...
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1927. In 1933, Round Hill was the site of Robert J. Van de Graaff's electrical experiments. Van de Graaff had been brought to MIT from Princeton in 1931...
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Ernest Lawrence Carlo Rubbia Ernest Rutherford Andrew Sessler Robert Van de Graaff Simon van der Meer Ernest Walton Rolf Widerøe Accelerator physics List...
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weakened the Joint Arrangements Act [nl], which her predecessor Dieuwke de Graaff-Nauta (CDA) had worked on, and she revised the Financial Relations Act [nl]...
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