The charged particles generated at a central source in a vacuum are accelerated incrementally in a plane at right angles to a fixed magnetic field by an alternating electric field of frequency equal to the frequency of revolution. A cyclotron is a circular accelerator capable of generating particle energies of very high magnitude. That year McMillan accepted an invitation to work with Ernest Orlando Lawrence, who was then exploring the potential of the cyclotron, at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1932 he won a richly deserved and highly regarded National Research Council (NRC) fellowship to support his research at any university or research institute in the country. One paper dealt with the isotopie composition of lithium in the Sun. While at Princeton University, McMillan published several papers on research he completed without a collaborator. This molecular beam method enables one to measure the magnetic moment of a proton, a particle of relative mass and charge Condon, famous for the Franck-Condon Principle, examined the generation of a molecular beam of hydrogen chloride nuclei in a nonhomogeneous electric field. The work for his doctorate, carried out under E. A year later he received his master of science degree, then he transferred to Princeton University to work on his doctoral degree in physics, which he obtained in 1932. McMillan received his bachelor of science degree in 1928. His faculty collaborator was Linus Pauling, the future double Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry and in peace, who suggested that McMillan publish the paper. While still an undergraduate he published his first paper in chemistry on the X-ray study of alloys of lead and thallium.
His undergraduate work was first-rate, as demonstrated by his election to Sigma Xi, a scientific research honor society, and Tau Beta Pi, an engineering honor society.
In 1924, after graduating from Pasadena High School, he attended the California Institute of Technology. As a youth McMillan built many gadgets and took advantage of his proximity to the California Institute of Technology by attending public lectures. When McMillan was a year and a half old, the family moved to suburban Pasadena, California. McMillan was the only child of Edwin Harbaugh McMillan, a physician, and Anne Marie Mattison, a homemaker. 7 September 1991 in El Cerrito, California), physicist who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on the transuranic elements and was codiscoverer of neptunium and plutonium. 18 September 1908 in Redondo Beach, California d.
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