Garwin-Lederman-Weinrich Experiment
date: label: Date made
content: 1956
name: label: originator
content: Lederman, Leon M.
notes: label: Description
content: Richard Garwin (b. 1928) was a physicist with a PhD from the University of Chicago who contributed to the design of nuclear weapons and spy satellites, and then moved to the IBM Watson Laboratory in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. Leon Max Lederman (1922-2018) was a physicist with a PhD from Columbia University, who served on the Columbia faculty for many years, and shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 for his research on neutrinos. Marchel Weinrich (1927-2008) was a graduate student in physics at Columbia. In 1957, shortly after learning of the results of the Wu-Ambler parity experiment, these three men confirmed Wu’s results by a different means. This is the apparatus used for that work.
label: Description
content: Ref: Richard L. Garwin, Leon M. Lederman, and Marcel Weinrich, “Observations of the Failure of Conservation of Parity and Charge Conjugation in Meson Decays: The Magnetic Moment of the Free Muon,” Physics Review 105 (1957): 1415-1417.
label: Description
content: “Text of Columbia Report on Physics Experiments,” New York Times (Jan. 16, 1957), p. 24.
label: Description
content: “Leon Lederman, 96, Atomic Explorer, Dies,” New York Times (Oct. 4, 2018), p. B13.
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content: Joel N. Shurkin, True Genius. The Life and Work of Richard Garwin, The most influential scientist you’ve never heard of (Amherst, N.Y., 2017).
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Medicine and Science: Modern Physics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.N-07695
label: accession number
content: 230268
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Detector, Scintillation
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 22.6 cm x .43 cm; 8 7/8 in x 3/16 in