Three of the GREAT MEN of atomic physics have died pretty recently, R.V. Pound, Ed Purcell, and Norman Ramsey. They were call at Harvard.
-John ============= > Just a month ago I found out that Norman Ramsey had died. > I met and talked with him about 20 some odd years ago before he recieved > the Nobel Prize for Physics. > He talked about the first Magentron that he ever saw which was a secret > weapon brought to > the US to be tested and worked with to make high resolution radar. He was > at MIT at the time. > He was an interesting fellow to talk to. One of our faculty at the > University of Kentucky was > one of his graduate students when he was working on the atomic frequency > standard. When > he received the check, many years after he developed the "atomic clock" he > gave about half > to his graduate students that had worked with him. He worked out a deal to > purchase a number of > computers, and each of these guys got one. The one Dr. McAdam got was an > AT&T 16 bit system. > Fairly fancy at the time. > I have a couple of Rubidium sources and think about my short discussion > with him at the time. > His graduate student was a ham but Dr. Ramsey never was. Dr. McAdam did a > great deal of > research in atomic physics at UofK before he retired a couple of years > ago. > 73 > Bill wa4lav > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.