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2 days ago · The Naval Research Laboratory continued the research under Philip Abelson's direction, but there was little contact with the Manhattan Project until April 1944, when Captain William S. Parsons, the naval officer in charge of ordnance development at Los Alamos, brought Oppenheimer news of encouraging progress on thermal diffusion.
3 days ago · Edwin McMillan and Philip Abelson used the cyclotron at the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory to bombard uranium with neutrons, were able to identify an isotope with a 23-minute half life that was the daughter of uranium-239, and therefore the real element 93, which they named neptunium. "
5 days ago · Philip Hauge Abelson (April 27, 1913 – August 1, 2004) was an American physicist, a scientific editor, and a science writer.
5 days ago · Philip Abelson: PhD 1939: 1987 "for his path–breaking contributions in radiochemistry, physics, geophysics, biophysics, and biochemistry and for his vigorous and penetrating counsel on national matters involving science and technology" physicist and science writer; co–discoverer of neptunium: Berni Alder: BS 1947, MS 1948: 2009
5 days ago · One of the more interesting stories in Acts involves Philip, one of the seven Grecian disciples, and the Ethiopian eunuch. How much do you know about the encounter between the two? The NIV was used for this quiz.
5 days ago · Neptunium has an atomic number of 93 and Np is its symbol. It is an actinide, radioactive metal, and was first synthesised in 1940 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, by Philip Abelson and Edwin McMillan. Neptunium is hazardous to handle due to its being poisonous and radioactive.
5 days ago · Philip II of Spain (Spanish: Felipe II; 21 May 1527 – 13 September 1598) was King of Spain (1556–98), King of Portugal (1581–98, as Philip I, Filipe I), King of Naples and Sicily (both from 1554), and jure uxoris King of England and Ireland (during his marriage to Queen Mary I from 1554 to 1558).
