Langsdorf Oscillator
date: label: Date made
content: 1945
name: label: maker
content: Langsdorf, Alexander
notes: label: Description
content: Alexander Suss Langsdorf Jr. (1912–1996) was a physicist with a PhD from M.I.T., who helped develop the atomic bomb, and became a vocal opponent of the use and proliferation of nuclear weapons. After the war, while working at the University of Chicago and then at Argonne Laboratory, he developed several devices related to nuclear physics. Among them is this oscillator for measuring neutron cross sections, for nuclear and cosmic ray research.
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content: From Argonne National Laboratory
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content: Ref: Alexander Langsdorf, Jr., “Method of Measuring Neutron Cross Sections,” Bulleting of the American Physical Society 23 (1948).
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content: Alexander Langsdorf, Jr., The Thermal Neutron Reactor as an Instrument for Measuring Neutron Cross Sections (Argonne National Laboratory, n.d.).
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content: David Stout, “Alexander Langsdorf, 93, Plutonium Pioneer,” New York Times (May 26, 1996), p. 34.
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content: “Alexander Langsdorf, Jr., worked on atomic bomb,” Chicago Tribune (May 25, 1996), p. L25.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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-07927
label: accession number
content: 215530
label: catalog number
content: MHI-N-7927
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Langsdorf Pile Oscillator
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 119 in x 35 in x 73 in; 302.26 cm x 88.9 cm x 185.42 cm